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| 🚀 | [Launched] Generally Available: Client-side data integrity protections in Azure Blob Storage | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=566895 | Azure Blob Storage has long supported data integrity validation, starting with MD5 as part of the original HTTP standards and adding CRC64-NVME support in 2019. Today, […] | Wednesday | Azure Updates,Azure Blob Storage,Launched,SDK and Tools,storage |
| 🚀 | [Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563481 | Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every […] | Wednesday | Azure Updates,AI + Machine Learning,Feature,Launched,Microsoft Build,Microsoft Foundry |
| 🚀 | [Launched] Generally Available: New Powershell module: Az.PostgreSQLFlexibleServer | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=566209 | We’re excited to introduce the newly renamed Az.PostgreSQLFlexibleServer PowerShell module, delivering a more streamlined experience for you to manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL with PowerShell. Building […] | Thursday | Azure Updates,Azure Database for PostgreSQL,Databases,Features,Hybrid + Multicloud,Launched |
| 🔍 | [Launched] Public Preview: Document PII playground sample in Microsoft Foundry NextGen | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563331 | Document-based PII detection in Azure AI Language now ships an initial playground experience in the Microsoft Foundry NextGen portal. The playground loads a prepared sample document, […] | Thursday | Azure Updates,AI + Machine Learning,Feature,Launched,Microsoft Foundry |
| 🚀 | [Launched] Generally Available: Document PII NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564382 | Azure AI Language now offers a refreshed Document PII playground in general availability, giving customers a faster way to evaluate personally identifiable information detection on documents. […] | Thursday | Azure Updates,AI + Machine Learning,Feature,Launched,Microsoft Foundry |
| 🔍 | [In preview] Public Preview: Instant Access via application consistent restore points | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=565758 | Azure introduces Instant Access for VM Restore Points, enabling you to restore disks immediately after a restore point is created—without waiting for background data replication.Key benefits:Faster […] | Thursday | Azure Updates,Azure Disk Storage,compute,Feature,Features,In preview,storage,Virtual Machines |
| 🔍 | [Launched] Public Preview: Azure Storage Mover now supports migration from Google Cloud Storage (GCS) | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=566948 | Azure Storage Mover now supports cloud-to-cloud migration of data from Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to Azure Blob Storage, helping organizations simplify multi-cloud consolidation onto Azure.Using the […] | Thursday | Azure Updates,Azure Storage Mover,Feature,Launched,Migration,storage |
| 🚀 | [Launched] Generally available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 on Azure Databricks | https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=567194 | Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering […] | Friday | Azure Updates,AI + Machine Learning,analytics,Azure Databricks,Features,Launched |
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| Lessons Learned #542: Reviewing Historical Azure SQL Database Storage Growth | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/lessons-learned-542-reviewing-historical-azure-sql-database/ba-p/4531791 | This week I worked on a service request where our customer needed to understand how an Azure SQL Database had grown over time. This information can […] | Monday | Tech Community |
| Find and fix app issues - Azure Copilot Observability Agent | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/find-and-fix-app-issues-azure-copilot-observability-agent/ba-p/4531044 | The Azure Copilot Observability Agent autonomously investigates incidents, correlates signals across logs, metrics, alerts, application health, and ML anomalies, then surfaces root cause with charts and […] | Monday | Tech Community |
| Authenticating AWS Workloads to Azure Functions using Workload Identity Federation | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/authenticating-aws-workloads-to-azure-functions-using-workload/ba-p/4531603 | What you will learn: What Workload Identity Federation is and how it works How to set up trust between AWS and Microsoft Entra ID How […] | Monday | Tech Community |
| Announcing General Availability of Client-Side Data Integrity Protections in Azure Blob Storage | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-storage-blog/announcing-general-availability-of-client-side-data-integrity/ba-p/4531364 | We are excited to announce the General Availability of client-side data integrity in Azure Blob Storage. Blob Storage has long supported integrity validation, starting with MD5 […] | Tuesday | Tech Community |
| My Journey with Azure SRE Agent | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/my-journey-with-azure-sre-agent/ba-p/4523519 | Introduction A customer came to me with a problem that many organisations have. They control their infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, but there are often scenarios […] | Tuesday | Tech Community |
| Azure Container Apps Express for Shipping Container Apps Fast | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-container-apps-express-for-shipping-container-apps-fast/ba-p/4531371 | ACA Express Apps are a strong fit for teams that need to ship quickly and can’t afford long platform setup cycles. This includes startups, internal platform […] | Wednesday | Tech Community |
| Migrating frontline mobile devices: Identity considerations for assigned and shared devices | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/migrating-frontline-mobile-devices-identity-considerations-for/ba-p/4532671 | By: Carol Burns – Principal Product Manager | Microsoft Intune and Sucheta Gawade, Microsoft MVP (Azure & Security / Intune) Practitioner perspective from Sucheta Gawade, Microsoft […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/how-to-build-long-running-mcp-tools-on-azure-functions/ba-p/4532653 | Recently, a customer building servers with the Azure Functions MCP extension reached out and asked: How do I handle tools that take longer than the client […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| Introducing kars – an Agent Reference Stack for Kubernetes | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/linux-and-open-source-blog/introducing-kars-an-agent-reference-stack-for-kubernetes/ba-p/4529800 | kars is a Kubernetes-native runtime for AI agents on Azure. It treats every agent as untrusted code: per-pod kernel isolation, zero credentials in the agent process, […] | Thursday | Tech Community |
| From RAG to agents: Build AI pipelines inside Azure HorizonDB | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-blog-for-postgresql/from-rag-to-agents-build-ai-pipelines-inside-azure-horizondb/ba-p/4532696 | By Abe Omorogbe, Navya Teja Gajula, Binnur Gorer, B Harsha Kashyap, Krishnakumar Ravi (KK) from Microsoft PostgreSQL AI team If you’ve ever shipped a RAG app, this will […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Understanding % Characters in Azure Blob File Names Using SQL OPENROWSET (BULK) | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/understanding-characters-in-azure-blob-file-names-using-sql/ba-p/4532593 | Why the % character is different In URL percent-encoding, the % character starts an encoded sequence. For example: %20 represents a space. %25 represents a literal […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Find anomalies in Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics with Dynamic Thresholds (Preview) | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-observability-blog/find-anomalies-in-prometheus-and-opentelemetry-metrics-with/ba-p/4533069 | Dynamic thresholds are extended to query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor, allowing to detect and alert on anomalies in Azure Monitor managed Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry […] | Friday | Tech Community |
| Take control of your PostgreSQL maintenance | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-blog-for-postgresql/take-control-of-your-postgresql-maintenance/ba-p/4529918 | Maintenance is an important part of keeping Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server secure, reliable, and up to date. It helps deliver platform updates, security patches, […] | Saturday | Tech Community |
| Generic Best Practices for HikariCP with Azure Database for PostgreSQL | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/generic-best-practices-for-hikaricp-with-azure-database-for/ba-p/4531059 | Author: Mohamed BaioumyTechnology: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Flexible Server & Single Server)Category: Connectivity | Performance | Application Design Introduction Connection pooling is a critical component of […] | Saturday | Tech Community |
| Lessons Learned #541:Automatic Plan Correction vs External Tables: A Practical Lesson from the Field | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/lessons-learned-541-automatic-plan-correction-vs-external-tables/ba-p/4531400 | Automatic Plan Correction is one of the most useful capabilities in Azure SQL Database when dealing with plan regressions. It uses Query Store to identify when […] | Saturday | Tech Community |
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| Azure AD B2C to Entra External ID (EEID) migration tools | https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/azure-ad-b2c-to-entra-external-id-eeid-migration-tools-348d49a992f3?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4 | Image showing migration The tooling docs for B2C migration are here. There is now a whole set of tools to help you with your migration. In addition, […] | Rory Braybrook |
| Sustainability and Security | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIyVuPEKe4g | | Azure Community Enthusiasts |
| Optimal routing with ExpressRoute – Revisited | https://blog.cloudtrooper.net/2026/06/28/optimal-routing-with-expressroute-revisited/ | There are two articles in Microsoft documentation that contain the most important guidelines to configure routing over ExpressRoute: Optimize routing for Azure ExpressRoute Azure ExpressRoute: Designing […] | Jose Moreno |
| How to execute Pester tests in parallel with Pester 6.0 | https://www.idontlikeai.dev/how-to-execute-pester-tests-in-parallel-with-pester-6-0/ | A new experimental feature to run independent test files in parallel Read the full article here: How to execute Pester tests in parallel with Pester 6.0 | Gijs Reijn |
| Fan Intelligence for World Cup 2026 | https://luke.geek.nz/azure/fan-intelligence-world-cup-2026/ | With the FIFA World Cup 2026 underway, I thought it would be a good chance to develop a World Cup 2026 fan intelligence platform in a […] | Luke Murray |
| I Shipped Two Headlamp Plugins: One Checks Your Cluster, One Makes the Dashboard Look Good | https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/06/i-shipped-two-headlamp-plugins-one-checks-your-cluster-one-makes-the-dashboard-look-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-shipped-two-headlamp-plugins-one-checks-your-cluster-one-makes-the-dashboard-look-good | Reading Time: 5 minutesI have been chipping away at extending KubeBuddy beyond the CLI for a while. This week I shipped two things that are genuinely […] | Pixel Roberts |
| Copilot Cowork Usage Overview | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPTJDgbbPg | Overview of Copilot Cowork usage-based billing. How to estimate, plan, control and observe. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 – […] | John Savill |
| Running Containers on WSL with C# | https://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2026/06/running-containers-on-wsl-with-c.html | In this post, let’s have a look at WSL Containers, which is now available for public preview, and see how we can programmatically start a container […] | Jaliya Udagedara |
| Securing AI skill repositories with Nvidia SkillSpector and GitHub Actions | https://thomasthornton.cloud/securing-ai-skill-repositories-with-nvidia-skillspector-and-github-actions/ | A , , custom instruction file, or MCP configuration can affect how an agent reads a repository, calls tools, writes code, updates infrastructure, or explains a […] | Thomas Thornton |
| Why Passwords Are Not Enough – Protecting Microsoft 365 with Entra ID MFA | https://www.ciraltos.com/why-passwords-are-not-enough-protecting-microsoft-365-with-entra-id-mfa/ | Passwords have been the foundation of account security for decades, but the reality is that they are no longer enough to protect your organization. Every day, […] | Travis Roberts |
| 349 – Back to basics: Managed identities vs. Service Principals vs. App Registrations | https://share.transistor.fm/s/4cf4cca9 | In this week’s episode, we go back to basics to discuss ways to access resources secured by an Entra tenant. This is the bread and butter […] | Tobias Zimmergren |
| EntraPulse: Tenant Profiles, Lokka 2.0 Interactive Apps, and Microsoft Enterprise MCP | https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-tenant-profiles-lokka-2-0-interactive-apps-and-microsoft-enterprise-mcp/ | Almost a year ago I introduced EntraPulse a free, community cross platform desktop app that lets you query your Entra tenant, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft Docs […] | Darren Robinson |
| Exam AI-901 Study Guide: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals | https://charbelnemnom.com/ai-901-exam-study-guide/ | Microsoft has announced the new Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals certification, which is earned by passing Exam AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals. This new certification Continue […] | Charbel Nemnom |
| How to Enable and Roll Out Microsoft Authenticator Passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID: A Step-by-Step Guide | https://charbelnemnom.com/enable-microsoft-authenticator-passkeys-entra-id/ | Passwords are no longer enough. Even with multifactor authentication (MFA), many organizations are still exposed to phishing-resistant gaps. Traditional MFA methods such as SMS, voice Continue […] | Charbel Nemnom |
| .NET Options Validation in Application Startup | https://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2026/07/net-options-validation-in-application.html | In this post, let’s have a look at how we can validate options in application startup in a .NET application. The Options pattern lets us bind […] | Jaliya Udagedara |
| Getting a checklist before Azure AD B2C migration using EntraExporter | https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/getting-a-checklist-before-azure-ad-b2c-migration-using-entraexporter-659705484a48?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4 | The repo is here. Before you migrate B2C to Entra External ID (EEID) or to another IDP, it helps to know what components you currently have in […] | Rory Braybrook |
| Microsoft Purview Adds Native Role Assignment Time Limits | https://ourcloudnetwork.com/microsoft-purview-adds-native-role-assignment-time-limits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-purview-adds-native-role-assignment-time-limits | Microsoft Purview introduces native admin assignment time limits (MC1411431). Learn how to set temporary role access without Entra PIM and improve compliance. The post Microsoft Purview […] | Daniel Bradley |
| Azure Update 3rd July 2026 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQmWSjKIQJY | Quick update but HAPPY 4TH of JULY!!! 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel. If I have something it will be there! […] | John Savill |
| A Developer’s Guide to Building RAG Systems: Lessons from the Trenches | https://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/06/27/a-developers-guide-to-building-rag-systems-lessons-from-the-trenches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-developers-guide-to-building-rag-systems-lessons-from-the-trenches | I have spent a good while now building RAG pipelines across a number of engagements, mostly for documentation sites, and the gap between the tutorials and […] | Jamie Maguire |
| Azure Update 26th June 2026 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSGmp859GSA | REALLY quick update! 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel. If I have something it will be there! 🤔 Due to the […] | John Savill |
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