Microsoft's AI Power Play: Maia, MAI, and NVIDIA by @tiagocosta.bsky.social

Microsoft is combining its own AI silicon, proprietary models, and NVIDIA ecosystem to strengthen Azure position in the AI race and optimise inference at scale.

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FinOps for Data and AI Workloads by Anishek Kamal

A VM-only review misses the unit economics of managed data and AI services. A useful review asks what it cost to produce one reliable outcome, then includes...

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Troubleshoot Missing AI Prompts in Purview Activity Explorer by @adbertram.bsky.social

Find why Purview records AI activity without prompt text. Check audit settings, capture policies, and viewer permissions in a scoped test.

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New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio… by James Rempt

What happens when developers who have spent decades working with Visual Studio start rethinking how they write code, learn new skills, and expand their

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Fabric Data Agents: A Production Readiness Guide for Enterprise Teams by Deepak Kaushik

Validate Fabric data agent answers, permissions, geography, and business value before adding Microsoft Foundry orchestration.

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Deno’s endo – team joins CloudFlare, runtime will be abandoned in one year’s time by Tim Anderson

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Enterprise Adoption Guide for Azure SRE Agent, Part 1: Deploying Your… by Deepthi Chelupati

We have learned a lot from talking with teams that are bringing Azure SRE Agent into their day-to-day operations. Across those conversations, we have seen a...

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What Really Happens When You Scale Azure SQL Database? How to Monitor… by Mohamed Baioumy

One of the advantages of Azure SQL Database is the ability to scale compute resources without managing the underlying infrastructure. Changing from 4 vCores...

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Re-Seeding a Broken Log Shipping Secondary (Without Touching the Primary) by LukaMK

Log shipping secondary out of sync after a SQL Server upgrade? How to re-seed it from full, diff and log backups without touching the primary or its mirror.

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Power Automate: Streamline Invoice Approvals in Teams by @adbertram.bsky.social

Build a Power Automate flow that routes invoice approvals through Teams, stores documents in SharePoint, and preserves an audit trail.

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Getting started with Azure SRE agent and some success stories by @msandbu.bsky.social

This is a blog post where I try to wrap up the content of my presentation this week at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) where I got to talk about Azure SRE Agent. For those that are not familiar with Azure SRE Agent, it is really comparable to a Claude based managed agent running in Microsoft […]

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Attackers Follow the Path You Designed – Why Identity Architecture Matters More Than Ever? by Shehan Perera

Security teams invest heavily in artificial intelligence, data protection and sophisticated detection capabilities. Yet one of the most consequential parts of the environment is often treated as fo…

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Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments by Michael Scovetta

New whitepaper from Microsoft and NVIDIA helps enterprises manage open-weight AI model risks with a shared taxonomy, evaluations, and controls.

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Microsoft Entra expands who can create agent blueprints by @danielbradley.bsky.social

Microsoft Entra will let default users create agent blueprints from November 2026. Restrict creation to approved users and review app-only permissions.

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Power Apps | The Page That Reports Itself by Mariano Gomez

Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).

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Adding granular control: Windows Admin Center for Azure… by Davanna White

As hybrid infrastructure and cloud models become the new standard, so does the need to manage the infrastructure behind them. Organizations require secure,...

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Stop Copilot Web Searches from Leaking Sensitive Data by @adbertram.bsky.social

Block Microsoft 365 Copilot from sending sensitive prompt text to external web search with a Purview DLP rule, then prove the block in the audit log.

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September 2026 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL by Karla Escobar

Table of Contents Save the date for POSETTE 2027 Features💡 Cross-Tenant Customer Managed Key (CMK) now Generally Available Database Hub in Microsoft...

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Web IQ: Web Search and Grounding APIs for AI Agents by Roberto Carli

Discover how Microsoft Web IQ connects AI agents to current web information through grounding, delivering faster, higher-quality answers with fewer tokens.

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Powering Azure infrastructure from grid to chip by Mario Zeng

As AI infrastructure scales, power availability is increasingly setting the ceiling on how much compute we can deploy. With workloads evolving towards...

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Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology by Mark Russinovich & Saurabh Dighe

Explore how Microsoft is advancing hardware security through open-source Integrated HSM technology, collaboration, and cryptographic key protection.

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The next developer interface is ambient intelligence by Martin Woodward

AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent.

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VS Code 1.142 Brings AI Canvases, Tighter Agent Controls and a New Model Picker by David Ramel

Microsoft's latest editor update moves AI collaboration beyond chat, adds new ways to manage agent sessions and gives enterprises more control over coding agents.

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Generally Available: Azure Cloud HSM hardware audit logging by The Azure Updates Team

Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.

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From Alert to Online Repack: Playbook for PostgreSQL Table Bloat on Azure… by Haider Z

I ran a experiment on my own Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server: deliberately bloat a table, build a monitoring job that would catch it, and then...

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90 DAYS LEFT: Windows Server 2016 End of Life January 2027 – Plan Your AD CS… by Richard M. Hicks

Heads up, fellow Windows Server administrators! There are now just THREE MONTHS remaining before Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support, so now is the time to finalize any migrations for worklo…

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Bounded Local Agentic Patterns for Clinical RAG by Kevin Gatimu

Calling a workflow “agentic” can hide the most important architectural question: who has authority to do what? In a health-record system, an unrestricted...

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Stop waiting on a failed build by Mads Kristensen

Stop solution builds after the first project failure so you can return to fixing the error sooner.

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Hands-On: Seculyze for Microsoft Sentinel – Part 1: Calibrate Your Detection Posture by @charbelnemnom.com

Hands-on with Seculyze for Microsoft Sentinel: score your detection posture and fix analytics rules, MITRE coverage gaps, and log source issues.

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Bring Azure SRE Agent into your developer workflow with the new canvas by Paul Yuknewicz

You’re on call. A customer-reported incident lands, Azure SRE Agent picks it up from your incident management system, investigates, and gives you a starting...

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