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Azure Updates (5 new azure updates)

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🔍[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WANhttps://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564478Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WAN is now in public preview, enabling you to use an Azure Virtual WAN hub as the hub in […]WednesdayAzure Updates,Features,In preview,Management,Management and Governance,Network Watcher,networking,security,Services,Virtual WAN
🚀[Launched] Generally Available: Virtual network flow logs connector with Microsoft Sentinelhttps://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564689Azure virtual network flow logs connector with Microsoft Sentinel is now generally available, enabling you to seamlessly export and analyze network traffic data within your security […]WednesdayAzure Updates,Features,Launched,Management and Governance,Network Watcher,networking
🚀[Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers – Service Mesh integration with Istiohttps://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564714Application Gateway for Containers service mesh integration with Istio is now generally available. This capability simplifies secure north-south traffic into workloads running in an Istio service […]ThursdayAzure Updates,Application Gateway,Features,Launched,networking,security
🚀[Launched] Generally Available: Multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace expand to 30 countries in Europehttps://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563016Multiparty private offers give Microsoft partners a way to procure third-party cloud and AI solutions for customers through Marketplace. Software companies can expand into new markets […]ThursdayAzure Updates,Feature,Features,Launched
🔍[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Support for Performance Plus Managed Diskshttps://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564644Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports replication of virtual machines using Performance Plus enabled managed disks. With this update, virtual machines using Premium SSD, Standard SSD […]SaturdayAzure Updates,Azure Site Recovery,Features,In preview,Management,Management and Governance,Migration
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Tech Community (28 new articles)

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The Azure Copilot Observability Agent Chat – Stop Writing Queries, Start Asking Questions.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-observability-blog/the-azure-copilot-observability-agent-chat-stop-writing-queries/ba-p/4522206Services and applications produce massive amounts of telemetry – and making sense of all this data takes effort. Data is often spread across different stores, which […]SundayTech Community
Building an End-to-End Azure RAG Strategy Agent with MS Foundryhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/building-an-end-to-end-azure-rag-strategy-agent-with-ms-foundry/ba-p/4516967High-Level Architecture This architecture represents an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline where raw documents are ingested from Azure Blob Storage, processed using Document Intelligence, transformed into […]MondayTech Community
How to use Instance Mix with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Setshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/how-to-use-instance-mix-with-azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets/ba-p/4522574When a Virtual Machine Scale Set needs to scale out, it normally uses a single VM size (also known as SKU). Whilst that is simple, it […]MondayTech Community
Demystifying LWLock: MultiXact SLRU Wait Events in Azure Database for PostgreSQLhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-blog-for-postgresql/demystifying-lwlock-multixact-slru-wait-events-in-azure-database/ba-p/4518504What Is the MultiXact Subsystem? Before diving into the wait events, it helps to understand what PostgreSQL is protecting. When a single transaction modifies a row, […]WednesdayTech Community
Important: FY26 PRACR close deadlineshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/partner-news/important-fy26-pracr-close-deadlines/ba-p/4522993We’re sharing the Partner Reported Azure Consumed Revenue (PRACR) deadlines for the close of fiscal year 2026 (July 2025–June 2026) to help you stay on track. These dates are sequential […]WednesdayTech Community
Simplify Virtual WAN Spoke Connectivity at Scale with Azure Virtual Network Managerhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-networking-blog/simplify-virtual-wan-spoke-connectivity-at-scale-with-azure/ba-p/4523055With Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) integration, organizations using Virtual WAN for transitive connectivity can simplify spoke connectivity and policy management across large-scale hub-and-spoke deployments. By […]WednesdayTech Community
Build AI RAG Apps with Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and OpenAI: Step-by-Step Guidehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/build-ai-rag-apps-with-azure-documentdb-with-mongodb/ba-p/4497192Scenario Imagine you are building your company’s RAG chat application using Azure OpenAI Service and orchestrating the flow with LangChain. The chat experience works, but now […]WednesdayTech Community
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Real Challenges and an Azure Design Walkthroughhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/multi-tenant-architecture-real-challenges-and-an-azure-design/ba-p/4517460Azure Multi-Tenant Architecture (B2C Scenario) Let’s start with a reference design commonly used in Azure-based systems. A pretty standard setup looks something like this: Microsoft Entra […]WednesdayTech Community
Introducing PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developershttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-blog-for-postgresql/introducing-postgresql-hub-for-azure-developers/ba-p/4522897When you’re building applications with PostgreSQL, finding the right resources can be harder than it should be. Documentation lives in one place, samples in another, tutorials […]ThursdayTech Community
Partner Blog | Leading the moment: How Azure partners are driving the Frontier shifthttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/partner-news/partner-blog-leading-the-moment-how-azure-partners-are-driving/ba-p/4523060Something fundamental is shifting in how partners create value, and it is moving faster than many expected. That shift is creating new opportunities for those ready […]ThursdayTech Community
General Availability of the MySQL Flexible Server Quota Management Self-Service Experiencehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql-blog/general-availability-of-the-mysql-flexible-server-quota/ba-p/4523373What’s New?  The updated experience introduces a dedicated Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Quotas blade in the Azure portal, offering a streamlined and intuitive interface to:  View current […]ThursdayTech Community
Building Agentic Systems on Azure: Microsoft Foundry Agents SDK vs Microsoft Agent Frameworkhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/building-agentic-systems-on-azure-microsoft-foundry-agents-sdk/ba-p/4517290In my recent experience as a Senior Consultant at Microsoft, I’ve been actively involved in designing and delivering AI-driven solutions, with a strong focus on building […]ThursdayTech Community
Rethinking cloud gateways for apps, AI, APIs, and more in Azure with F5 in Microsoft Marketplacehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/marketplace-blog/rethinking-cloud-gateways-for-apps-ai-apis-and-more-in-azure/ba-p/4520244In this guest blog post, Ilya Krutov, Senior Product Marketing Manager at F5, considers the evolution of cloud architectures and how F5 NGINXaaS for Azure in […]FridayTech Community
[Now Generally Available] Customizable Security Baseline Policies in Machine Configuration!https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/now-generally-available-customizable-security-baseline-policies/ba-p/4523429Background: Azure Machine Configuration remains committed to enabling greater security and simplicity in at-scale server management for all Azure customers. Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure […]FridayTech Community
Who’s Calling Your Service? Designing for Humans and Agents at the Same Timehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/who-s-calling-your-service-designing-for-humans-and-agents-at/ba-p/4523716We’re building three interfaces for Azure SRE Agent: an interactive CLI for humans at a terminal, an agent mode for coding agents that spawn it as […]FridayTech Community
[Preview] CIS Benchmarks on Azure; Now for Windows Serverhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/preview-cis-benchmarks-on-azure-now-for-windows-server/ba-p/4523432For customers with machines managed by Azure (i.e., Arc-enabled machines and Azure VMs), last year we delivered built-in CIS Benchmarks for Linux. The feedback has been […]FridayTech Community
Extending the Vercel AI SDK to Microsoft Foundry (TypeScript)https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-foundry-blog/extending-the-vercel-ai-sdk-to-microsoft-foundry-typescript/ba-p/4518313The Vercel AI SDK gives developers one elegant, provider‑agnostic surface (generateText, streamText, tools, structured output) for building agentic apps. The official AI​-sdk/azure provider, however, only targets […]FridayTech Community
Training 100B+ Models on a Single GPU: What MegaTrain Changes – and What It Means for Azurehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/training-100b-models-on-a-single-gpu-what-megatrain-changes-and/ba-p/4519562The Paradigm Shift in Model Training The conventional wisdom in deep learning has been simple: bigger models require bigger infrastructure. Training a 100-billion parameter language model […]FridayTech Community
Why do I see many VDI_CLIENT_WORKER sessions in Azure SQL Database — and do they impact performance?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/why-do-i-see-many-vdi-client-worker-sessions-in-azure-sql/ba-p/4523817  Sometimes you’ll notice many sessions showing the command VDI_CLIENT_WORKER in Azure SQL Database—often around scaling, replica/copy workflows, or internal seeding operations. These sessions can look […]FridayTech Community
Azure DDoS Protection & Azure WAF: A Layered Defense for Modern DDoS Attackshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-network-security-blog/azure-ddos-protection-azure-waf-a-layered-defense-for-modern/ba-p/4523745  Introduction: The Need for Layered DDoS Defense Organizations today operate in an environment where Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to evolve across both […]FridayTech Community
Building a hands-free voice concierge with Microsoft Foundry Voice Live and a Hosted Agenthttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/building-a-hands-free-voice-concierge-with-microsoft-foundry/ba-p/4523960This post walks through a small, working sample that wires the browser microphone to Azure AI Speech Voice Live, binds the realtime session to a Foundry hosted […]FridayTech Community
Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of Napster Companion API on Azurehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/partner-news/azure-native-integrations-public-preview-of-napster-companion/ba-p/4523735What is Napster Companion API? Napster Companion API is Napster’s platform for building Omniagents: persistent, multi-channel AI agents with one identity, one memory, and one set […]FridayTech Community
Load testing hosted MCP servers with Locust and Azure Load Testinghttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-foundry-blog/load-testing-hosted-mcp-servers-with-locust-and-azure-load/ba-p/4522691Agent traffic doesn’t look like human traffic. It arrives in bursts, sustains long sessions, and hits the same handful of tools at a parallelism a typical […]SaturdayTech Community
Unlocking the Power of Azure Resource Graph Explorer for Comprehensive Database Inventoryhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/modernization-best-practices-and/unlocking-the-power-of-azure-resource-graph-explorer-for/ba-p/4392345Why Taking Inventory is Crucial Taking inventory of databases in Azure is a critical practice for any organization managing cloud resources. It ensures that all databases […]SaturdayTech Community
Azure Functions MCP extension now supports MCP Promptshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-mcp-extension-now-supports-mcp-prompts/ba-p/4516359We are thrilled to announce that the MCP prompt trigger is now available in public preview in the Azure Functions MCP extension! With this release, the extension now […]SaturdayTech Community
Choosing the Right Language Analyzer for Azure AI Searchhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-foundry-blog/choosing-the-right-language-analyzer-for-azure-ai-search/ba-p/4523080By Abhishree Shetty, Alec Berntson, Lihang LiA language analyzer is a specific type of text analyzer that performs lexical analysis using the linguistic rules of the target language. It […]SaturdayTech Community
GPT Realtime in Production: Which Context Strategy Should You Actually Use?https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-foundry-blog/gpt-realtime-in-production-which-context-strategy-should-you/ba-p/4523091Are You Running Azure GPT Realtime in Production? The question that started this: Are you running Azure gpt-realtime in production? If so, you’ve already run into […]SaturdayTech Community
What’s new in Azure Language in Foundry Toolshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-foundry-blog/what-s-new-in-azure-language-in-foundry-tools/ba-p/4521343Every day, your applications process thousands of emails, transcripts, and documents containing sensitive information—names, phone numbers, medical details. Manually identifying and protecting this data doesn’t scale. […]SaturdayTech Community

Microsoft Security (5 articles)

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From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilitieshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/26/poisoned-search-results-gpu-mining-cryptojacking-campaign-abusing-screenconnect-microsoft-net-utilities/In this article Attack chain overview Mitigation and protection guidance References Learn more Microsoft Defender Experts identified an active cryptojacking campaign in which malicious download sites […]Wednesday
Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secretshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/28/typosquatted-npm-packages-used-steal-cloud-ci-cd-secrets/In this article Attack chain overview The lure: typosquats and spoofed metadata Execution: npm lifecycle hook abuse Gen-1 stager: HTTP C2 beacon and payload drop Gen-2 […]Friday
The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptorhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/28/the-gentlemen-ransomware-dissecting-a-self-propagating-go-encryptor/In this article Pre-encryption File encryption Post-encryption Defending against The Gentlemen ransomware Microsoft Defender detections and hunting guidance Indicators of compromise Ransomware that combines robust encryption […]Friday
Malicious npm packages abuse dependency confusion to profile developer environmentshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/29/33-malicious-npm-packages-abuse-dependency-confusion-profile-developer-environments/In this article Attack chain overview Threat actor attribution Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of Compromise (IOC) References Learn more Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered an […]Saturday
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protectionhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/29/microsoft-is-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-endpoint-protection/As threats become more coordinated and faster to execute, endpoint protection has become the proving ground for modern defense. For the seventh consecutive time, Microsoft has been […]Saturday

Azure Community (16 articles)

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Why OpenAI Vision gets your coordinates wrong & how to fix it!https://azuretechinsider.com/why-openai-vision-gets-your-coordinates-wrong-how-to-fix-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-openai-vision-gets-your-coordinates-wrong-how-to-fix-itWhen submitting an HD image drawing to GPT-5 via the Azure OpenAI API, the returned bounding box coordinates are consistently off by multiple pixels. This systematic […]Dieter Gobeyn
Microsoft Agent Framework: Agents on Azure Functions with Durable Task Schedulerhttps://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2026/05/microsoft-agent-framework-agents-on-dts.htmlIn the previous post: Microsoft Agent Framework: Agents on Azure Functions with .NET, we had a look at hosting an Agent on Azure Functions using Microsoft […]Jaliya Udagedara
Direct Managed Identity or Federated Managed Identity?https://ourcloudnetwork.com/direct-managed-identity-or-federated-managed-identity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=direct-managed-identity-or-federated-managed-identityCompare directly assigning Graph API permissions to Entra Managed Identities versus using Workload Identity Federation with an App Registration. The post Direct Managed Identity or Federated […]Daniel Bradley
Real-Time Lobby and Chat Improvements in The Last Republichttps://marktinderholt.medium.com/real-time-lobby-and-chat-improvements-in-the-last-republic-109f9d7d5976?source=rss-d5b673d47dbb------2I cleaned up the lobby UX for my game, The Last Republic. The goal was to make the lobby feel more alive and useful by showing […]Mark Tinderholt
Vibe Coding React After a 15-Year Frontend Hiatushttps://marktinderholt.medium.com/vibe-coding-react-after-a-15-year-frontend-hiatus-d1b6ec423513?source=rss-d5b673d47dbb------2I haven’t been a frontend developer for nearly fifteen years. The last time I seriously worked on frontend development was at my first… Continue reading on […]Mark Tinderholt
Microsoft Agent Framework: Deterministic Multi-Agent Orchestrations with .NET Durable Functionshttps://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2026/05/microsoft-agent-framework-deterministic.htmlIn this post, let’s have a look at building deterministic multi-agent orchestrations with Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET using Durable Functions to coordinate multiple agents. A couple of […]Jaliya Udagedara
Building Enterprise Ready AI Agents and Cloud Adoptionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKGLEbVaa8Azure Community Enthusiasts
Understanding and Using AI Skillshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9n5EYoWdNkA look at using AI skills by first looking at how to cut down a tree. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ […]John Savill
Quick Overview of AI Skills #aihttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/iL3Y1ByujnIReally quick overview on AI Skills!John Savill
Agentic Operations Lakehouse: Drasi & Microsoft Frameworkhttps://luke.geek.nz/azure/building-agentic-operations-lakehouse-drasi-maf/Hospital operations run on a web of concurrent signals. Theatre lists change throughout the day. PACU bays fill and empty. Sterile tray queues build up. Discharge […]Luke Murray
345 – Insights on using applied AI with Rick Van Rousselthttps://share.transistor.fm/s/52252f9cThis week, we sit down with Rick Van Rousselt, Microsoft 365 MVP and managing partner at Advantive Belgium, for an honest look at what’s actually working […]Tobias Zimmergren
Azure Update 29th May 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBVZEVCLKkREALLY 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
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for 2026https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2026/05/microsoft-certified-trainer-mct-for-2026/I’m really happy to share that I’m now a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for 2026! For me, this isn’t just another certification—it’s something I genuinely enjoy […]Thomas Maurer
The future of PSResourceGet: Three features that change how you manage PowerShell packageshttps://www.idontlikeai.dev/the-future-of-psresourceget-three-features-that-change-how-you-manage-powershell-packages/And the ones you want to keep using in your automation flows Read the full article here: The future of PSResourceGet: Three features that change how […]Gijs Reijn
The Hidden Psychology Behind Multiplayer Game Listshttps://marktinderholt.medium.com/the-hidden-psychology-behind-multiplayer-game-lists-53a3e4fed73a?source=rss-d5b673d47dbb------2The game history list is divided into two filter categories: Active and Completed. At first glance this might seem overly simple… Continue reading on Medium »Mark Tinderholt
Building a RAG Administration Tool with .NET, Elasticsearch and OpenAIhttps://jamiemaguire.net/index.php/2026/05/30/building-a-rag-administration-tool-with-net-elasticsearch-and-openai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-a-rag-administration-tool-with-net-elasticsearch-and-openaiWhen you build and ship a RAG pipeline, you quickly discover that the real work is not the initial vectorisation pass. It is keeping the pipeline […]Jamie Maguire

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