This week's Azure Update is up! Article - linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… Video - youtu.be/0dOmMLqrlw0 00:00 - Introduction 00:09 - New videos 00:47 - Azure Boost Guest RDMA – Preview 01:47 - ASR Linux NVMe Azure VM support – Preview 02:12 - Premium SSD v2 non-zonal VM support – GA 02:38 - NCv6 – GA 03:07 - Azure Batch legacy VM SKU retirements 03:39 - Azure VPN Client for Linux (preview) retired – 8/31/2026 04:20 - Azure Migrate Azure Files – GA 04:52 - Minimum billable object size for cool, cold and archive access tiers – NOT July 1 2026 05:22 - GPv1 and Legacy Blob new account blocked – June 1st 2026 05:57 - Azure Managed Redis Entra RBAC for data management – Preview 06:41 - Azure PostgreSQL maintenance control – GA 07:01 - PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers – GA 07:27 - SSMS GitHub Copilot Agent Mode – Preview 08:17 - Cosmos DB Synapse Link retirement – 3/31/2029 08:35 - Azure SQL DB Entra logins – GA 09:11 - SQL MCP Server - GA 09:38 - Azure Monitor ingestion volume change dashboard – Preview 10:01 - Foundry agent security license changes – Preview 10:42 - Anthropic Fable 5 in Foundry and GitHub Copilot 12:36 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video on the passkey registration campaign feature of Entra ID to help get more users leveraging the easy, fast, strong and phishing resistant authentication mechanism. 00:00 - Introduction 00:07 - Passkey benefits 03:24 - Nudging users 03:57 - Passkey policies 07:49 - Registration campaigns 14:38 - When are users nudged 16:41 - Summary 17:43 - Close Video link youtu.be/10Se9jR-cR0 #Passkeys #Passwordless #EntraID #MicrosoftEntra #IdentitySecurity #FIDO2 #Authentication #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity #ModernAuth #DigitalIdentity #IAM

Azure Weekly Update BUILD SPECIAL is up! It's late not because of recording but because it was so long it took 3 hours to upload on Starlink 🤣 youtu.be/f1JZs2bYUss 0:00 - Introduction 01:33 - New videos 02:07 - Cobalt 200 ARM VMs – Preview 03:17 - Lasv5 and Laosv5 VM SKU - Preview 04:58 - Azure Linux 4 - Preview 05:50 - VMSS updates 05:20 - Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager – Preview 06:41 - Confidential TDX VM live migration - Preview 06:18 - ASR premium plus support – GA 07:35 - Azure Functions updates 09:08 - Logic App updates 12:28 - AKS updates 14:40 - Azure Container Apps updates 15:26 - API Management updates 19:47 - API Center updates – GA 19:10 - Azure Monitor updates 20:29 - Fabric Rayfin – Preview 22:04 - Azure HorizonDB – Preview 24:45 - Cosmos DB updates 32:51 - SQL Server in VM snapshot backup – Preview 32:26 - Azure Databricks branch – Preview 33:56 - Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search updates 36:36 - Azure AI Search new gen AI integration - GA 36:26 - Oracle to PostgreSQL schema conversion – GA 37:47 - PostgreSQL updates – Preview 38:13 - MySQL updates- GA 39:50 - MS SQL updates 40:49 - Azure DocumentDB updates – GA 41:19 - Azure Confidential Clean Room multiparty analytics - Preview 42:55 - Microsoft Execution Container (MXC) 43:40 - Agent governance with ASSERT and ACS 45:35 - Agent A2A - Preview 45:49 - Foundry guided guardrails – Preview 46:33 - Foundry tracing and evaluation updates 47:36 - Agent service voice live integration - GA 47:52 - Purview agent integrations – Preview 48:20 - Foundry Toolbox and Memory 50:59 - Publish to Teams and M365 Copilot – June GA 50:28 - Azure AI Translator updates – GA 51:27 - Azure AI Speech LLM API – GA 52:54 - Custom Avatar and Custom Video in Foundry – GA 53:30 - Content Understanding in Foundry portal – Preview 53:37 - Foundry Global PTU reservations – GA 53:11 - PII playgrounds – Preview 53:27 - Foundry VS Code extension - GA 54:47 - Alon-1.0 Instruct 54:58 - Alon-1.0 Plan 55:50 - MAI-Thinking-1 55:22 - MAI-Image-2.5 (with Flash variant) 56:33 - MAI-Transcribe-1.5 56:46 - MAI-Voice-2 (with Flash variant coming soon) 58:52 - MAI-Code-1-Flash 58:10 - Majorana 2 59:40 - MDASH 59:26 - Intelligent terminal – Preview 01:00:09 - Work IQ APIs 01:01:07 - Web IQ 01:02:00 - Microsoft Scout, the first Autopilot 01:02:32 - Event Grid MQTT v5 sub identifier - GA 01:02:45 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Tried something new and created a Microsoft AI update for month of May. Would be interested in feedback on maybe changes for future ones. youtu.be/HN12PCVEeuM 00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - New AI videos 00:47 - Models 00:50 - Claude Opus 4.8 - Foundry, Copilot Cowork and GitHub Copilot 02:10 - GPT-5.5 Instant (GPT-chat-latest) & GPT-5.5 Thinking – Microsoft Foundry and M365 Copilot Chat 02:52 - GPT-realtime-2, GPT-realtime-translate, and GPT-realtime-whisper - Foundry 03:37 - xAI Grok 4.3 - Foundry 03:57 - DeepSeek V4, V4 Pro & Kimi 2.6 - Foundry (via Fireworks) 04:45 - Cohere Command A and new image models - Foundry 05:17 - MAI-Image-2-Efficient — Foundry Labs 05:54 - Microsoft Foundry 05:57 - Trace-based evaluation for external & hosted agents 06:59 - GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning - Gated GA 07:39 - Managed VNet, project cost attribution & Content Understanding - GA 08:17 - Open agentic stack from MS Research - MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara 1.5 09:11 - Foundry Local 1.1 & 1.2 plus azure-ai-projects 2.2.0 SDK 10:13 - Foundry IQ 11:00 - Copilot Studio 11:03 - Computer-using agents 11:34 - New workflow experience 12:24 - M365 Copilot 12:27 - Redesign 12:59 - Implicit Outlook grounding 13:07 - PDFs in chat 13:11 - GitHub Copilot 13:14 - Opus 4.8 & Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, GPT-5.3-Codex, auto model selection 13:34 - GitHub Copilot App – Preview 13:54 - Copilot CLI remote control – GA 14:18 - Organizational model rules - Preview 14:41 - Close #AI #Microsoft #copilot #github

AI skills are a very powerful but often misunderstood capability so in this video I explore what they are, how to use them and how they work together with other capabilities like MCP. And yes, I start with how to cut down trees. youtu.be/X9n5EYoWdNk 00:00 - Introduction 00:07 - How to cut down a tree 03:57 - AI skills 07:15 - Progressive disclosure and using skills 09:44 - Looking at a skill 12:19 - Demo of using a skill 17:39 - Sequence 20:27 - Using skills in other environments 23:38 - Summary 24:41 - Close #AISkills #MCP #AIEngineering #AzureAI #DeveloperExperience #TechEducation #TechAnalogies #AIEcosystem #SoftwareEngineering

This week's Azure Update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/pMfG-vYvnv8 🧾 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:12 - New videos 00:28 - AKS AppInsight auto-instrumentation 00:53 - App Configuration scorecards 01:43 - Azure Functions Flex Consumption TLS cert 02:20 - TLS 1.0 and 1.1 app service retirement 03:05 - Azure Front Door WebSocket 03:35 - NSG and UDR limit updates 04:22 - Network Watcher rule impact analyzer 05:11 - GW summarized prefixes 06:04 - S2S VPN cert auth 06:20 - User group specific IP pools P2S VPN 06:45 - Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust 07:28 - Azure Storage Action mock runs 08:27 - ANF cache volumes 09:18 - ANF object REST API 09:59 - Azure Storage Mover blob-to-blob 10:21 - Azure Storage Mover schedule update 10:41 - Azure Files Entra-only identity 11:28 - Event Grid subscription identifiers 12:09 - Event Grid updates 12:39 - Cosmos DB LangChain and LangGraph integration 12:59 - SQL Server on Azure VM new regions 13:24 - Azure PostgreSQL Flex token refresh update 13:44 - Foundry role updates 14:24 - New Foundry Model Router models 15:59 - Azure Linux 4.0 16:54 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New AI-901 Azure Fundamentals Study Cram is up! youtu.be/a-yuXz_uV30 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Study resources 02:49 - What is AI 05:30 - Assistants and agents 07:15 - Responsible AI 09:35 - Azure and Entra 13:20 - Microsoft Foundry 15:42 - Models 20:09 - Agents 21:20 - Tools and knowledge 21:36 - Looking at an agent 23:55 - Endpoints, keys and Entra auth 26:35 - App integration with Foundry 29:05 - Foundry generated code 31:04 - Custom AI app 35:56 - Generative AI 41:23 - Embeddings 43:04 - Other AI services 43:36 - Natural Language Processing 50:18 - Speech 53:49 - Computer vision 56:26 - Image and video generation 1:00:12 - Information extraction 1:03:56 - Summary 1:06:25 - Close #Azure #MicrosoftAzure #AzureAI #AI901 #AzureAIFundamentals #MicrosoftCertifications #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #TechLearning

This week's update is up! Quick update. 📽️ youtu.be/yoVH_44xb_E 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:09 - New videos 01:07 - ACA Express 02:28 - AVNM rule impact analyzer 03:15 - Azure Files SMB MI support 04:21 - ANF large file support 04:42 - Azure Service Bus Premium with AZ 4 9s SLA 04:57 - Azure Service Bus Premium confidential compute 05:42 - Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana 06:10 - Codename MDASH 07:18 - Grok 4.3 in Foundry 07:56 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Really quick video showing my favorite windows command ever! winget upgrade --all --include-unknown --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent Upgrade all the apps on your machine without any interaction! I run it once a week and I'm done. I also show how to quick find apps, get details and install using winget. youtu.be/Tuh6WNJrhQU #Windows #winget #CommandLine #CLI #Automation #DevTools #ITPro #ProductivityHacks #SoftwareUpdates #TechTips

Every C‑level conversation I’ve had this quarter has centered on one theme: Can we trust the outputs of generative AI? Not just the models, but the data feeding them. In this video, I break down one of the most important (and overlooked) dimensions of AI trust: creating a complete, virtualized view of your enterprise data estate. I also touch on how to ensure AI solutions are fit for purpose and safe through capabilities like evaluations. A unified data virtualization layer gives you a single, AI‑enabled interface to your data; no matter where it lives, how it’s structured, or which system owns it. This is how organizations move from siloed insights to intelligence at enterprise scale. 🔗 Video: youtu.be/J08rfw4UBfY Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:31 - AI and the new pressure on data 04:50 - Silos of data 07:55 - Data virtualization layer 09:10 - Fabric OneLake 13:39 - Single namespace and workspaces 14:26 - Shortcuts 15:55 - Types of data 18:54 - Shortcuts outside of OneLake 20:32 - Managed transformations 21:43 - Mirroring 23:38 - Single virtualized enterprise data layer 24:40 - Governance 25:42 - Semantic models 27:47 - Intelligence for AI 28:38 - Summary #GenerativeAI #AITrust #DataVirtualization #MicrosoftFabric #OneLake #DataStrategy #DataArchitecture #CIO #CTO

This week's Azure Update is up! YouTube - youtu.be/wdYy3sLnfHA LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:09 - New videos 00:50 - Azure Functions consumption durable task scheduler 01:29 - Azure Reserved VM size retirements 02:11 - Bulk Azure Backup VM restore 02:30 - Dl D E v7 SKUs 03:21 - UK egress datacenter changes 03:51 - ACS AlternateId cleanup 04:36 - App GW for Containers add-on for AKS Automatic 05:14 - Elastic SAN AVS Gen2 private cloud 06:29 - Elastic SAN single volume snapshot 06:57 - ANF backup enabled by default 07:11 - Premium SSD v2 in 3 AZs Japan West 07:31 - Cosmos DB spherical quantization 08:03 - Cosmos DB shell 08:51 - SQL MI BC right-size memory 09:22 - GPT-chat-latest in Foundry 10:01 - Azure Document Intelligence v3 API retirement 10:11 - GPT realtime models 11:36 - Close #Azure #MicrosoftAzure #AzureUpdate #CloudComputing #HybridCloud #DevOps #AzureAI #CloudSecurity #DigitalTransformation

Happy May the 4th be with you! I even planned ahead and wore the right t‑shirt for today’s video. In this one, we dig into how models actually behave, so we can understand context engineering, fine‑tuning, and a few other clever ways to shape and guide AI systems. If you’ve ever wondered why models respond the way they do, this will help. youtu.be/oqbKWwUhh4Y 00:00 - Introduction 00:27 - Model 101 01:46 - Parameters 04:40 - Hidden layers and dimensions 05:35 - Embeddings 07:08 - Training phase 07:53 - Prompts and responses 09:12 - Changing the behavior 10:08 - Zero one and few shot 13:30 - System prompt 17:19 - RAG 20:02 - Context engineering 21:58 - Fine tuning 26:39 - LoRA 31:47 - Combination of technologies 33:47 - Close #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #AI #LLMs #FineTuning #ContextEngineering

This week's Azure Update (from Dallas hotel) is up :-) First time back in Texas for 2 years! youtu.be/FqYQSLI6vuk #azure #microsoft

With all the recent quantum computing news, it’s a good time to revisit Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). What it is, why it matters, and what you should be doing now. youtu.be/QQMLzxqJlMA 00:00 - Introduction 00:43 - The problem 04:01 - PQC 07:04 - What should you do 08:14 - Stop harvest now, decrypt later 09:21 - Close #PostQuantumCryptography #QuantumSecurity #CyberSecurity #Cryptography #ZeroTrust #Encryption #RiskManagement #DataProtection #EnterpriseSecurity

This week's Azure Update is up with bonus Mythos update. youtu.be/AxxFqiUImV4 Article version - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - New videos 00:48 - Mythos Preview update 03:44 - AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement 03:59 - AKS backup via CLI 04:23 - Azure Functions v3 Linux consumption retire 04:54 - ANF user and group quota reports 05:23 - ANF ransomware protection 06:18 - Azure Elastic SAN capacity autoscaling 06:47 - AMA native OLTP ingestion 07:12 - Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled K8S OpenShift 07:37 - App Insights to Entra-integrated auth 08:00 - Azure Monitor Pipelines 09:08 - Cosmos DB DDM 09:46 - PostgreSQL Flexible Premium SSDv2 10:22 - PostgreSQL Flex vnet-int to PE 10:51 - PostgreSQL Flex logical repl status 11:06 - Fabric PostgreSQL enhanced mirroring 11:57 - PostgreSQL Flexible to Denmark East region 12:04 - Azure Arc SQL on Azure VM migration target 12:24 - Claude Opus 4.7 12:46 - OpenAI GPT 5.5 13:07 - OpenAI GPT-image-2 14:01 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Python is everywhere today. Many models write Python to perform nearly every task and it's also really useful to at least be able to read Python when you are looking at AI, automation and much more. With that in mind I created an absolute beginners guide to Python and the video description links to the files I use to demonstrate it. The video walks you through getting setup and writing your first apps. youtu.be/VE1HAjJB7cs 00:00 - Introduction 00:26 - Setup 04:50 - My sample files 06:05 - Hello world 08:02 - Executing a python script 10:48 - Breaking down the syntax 13:25 - AI help 16:08 - Variables 20:21 - F-strings 22:29 - Input and output 24:45 - Math 25:03 - Conditions 30:03 - and or 33:39 - Loops 33:52 - For 35:11 - While 38:56 - Lists 42:21 - Dictionaries 43:19 - Functions 46:26 - End project 47:50 - Summary 48:17 - Close #python #AI

For workloads that leverage SFTP you can now utilize Entra ID integrated authentication to Azure Storage! No more per storage account identities. 👏 youtu.be/pzPqnTHxNPU 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - Using SFTP 03:22 - Local user challenges 05:04 - Entra ID integrated auth 07:34 - Demo time 12:44 - Token lifetime 13:39 - Data plane RBAC and ABAC 15:07 - Summary 15:43 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #entraid #azurestorage

This week's Azure Update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/pQ9em70ZHd4 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - New videos 00:47 - AKS CNI Overlay CIDR expansion 01:48 - Azure Function MCP resource trigger 02:52 - AKS disable HTTP proxy 03:31 - AKS observability improvements 04:11 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift NVIDIA GPU support 04:43 - Azure Network Watcher rule impact analysis 05:15 - Azure Service Bus NSP support 05:58 - Azure Migrate Azure Files assessment 06:32 - PostgreSQL maintenance notification update 06:58 - PgBouncer 1.25.1 support 07:34 - MAI new models 08:15 - Grok 4.2 08:39 - Foundry Local 09:30 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Cosmos DB is amazingly powerful but if you don't architect correctly or don't understand how you will interact with the data you can easily end up with a non optimal and therefore expensive deployment. In this video I walk through some of the key SKUs, when to use them and then how to optimize your data model. youtu.be/RbH5F_3w47E 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Service options and structure 01:48 - Request Units (RUs) 04:07 - Free SKU 05:26 - Provisioned 06:06 - Manual 11:13 - Autoscale 16:58 - Configuration 23:03 - Account throughput limit 25:34 - Partitions 30:34 - What should I use 35:48 - Bookmark 36:26 - Optimizing design 37:52 - Optimize the RU use 39:45 - Importance of partition key 44:13 - High cardinality 45:57 - Document size 49:21 - Global secondary index 54:00 - Storage heavy 56:50 - Write heavy 58:47 - Summary 59:29 - Close #cosmosdb #database #microsoft

This week's Azure Update (3rd April 2026) is up. 📺 youtu.be/x8ULC4uDQos 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - New videos 02:05 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions 02:32 - VM and VMSS full ephemeral OS disk caching 04:13 - App Config AFD integration 05:34 - Premium SSDv2 new region 06:16 - User delegation SAS for table file and queue 07:00 - Azure Data Box to Files Provisioned v2 07:49 - ANF cool access enhancements 08:26 - Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement 09:11 - Event Grid updates 10:48 - Copilot Cowork 11:39 - Azure Speech Neural HD 2.5 12:18 - Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B model 13:37 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate