Microsoft Graph beta now exposes dynamicMembershipPriority for some Entra groups. I examine its high value, an undocumented endpoint and what it may mean.

Customers running mission-critical Oracle workloads on Azure want more than database infrastructure in an Azure datacenter. They want their Oracle...

AI agents become operationally interesting when they can reach real systems. They also become operationally dangerous at exactly the same moment. Caldova...

Learn how to use the experimental Bicep testing framework together with Pester to generate resource snapshots, assert expected properties, and automate Azure Bicep validation in a pipeline.

Building the Local RAG System The system was designed as a fully local RAG pipeline, with both retrieval and model inference running on the same machine. The...

On September 30, 2026, Azure Service Bus stops accepting the Service Bus Messaging Protocol (SBMP) — the protocol the BizTalk SB-Messaging adapter has always...

Azure Functions can already connect to many Azure services through triggers and bindings. With managed connectors, your functions can access about 1,700...

Agents Act. You Set the Limits. Your platform needs to run untrusted code. Agents choose actions at runtime, from installing packages to calling APIs. In a...

Welcome back. In Part 1 we learned what an MCP server is and built a real one — a VM inventory tool that reads your Azure estate with Azure Resource Graph...

Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update.

How AI agents create mental chaos and drain developers' focus—insights and practical boundaries to reduce context switching and reclaim deep work.

Heads up for IT admins -- Microsoft is preparing to retire two different parts of its cloud ecosystem over the next six months.

As threats move faster and security environments grow more complex, security teams need to quickly understand what matters, where potential risks may exist,...

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An agent can produce a convincing answer while the system around it is still difficult to deploy, authorize, debug, and recover. For AI engineers and...

Security work extends beyond the signal Identifying a threat, exposure, or data risk is only the start. Security teams still need to assign ownership, bring...

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A retrieval-augmented generation prototype can look convincing after an afternoon: load a few documents, create embeddings, retrieve passages, and ask a...

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Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to the Azure Sphere OS only, with no update to the SDK....

Get PostgreSQL running in Docker with this step-by-step setup guide. Learn to pull the image, run a container, set up volumes, and connect with psql.

Microsoft extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote projects while quietly removing last week's AI-generated release-notes warning.

Organizations modernize infrastructure in different ways. Some prioritize a simple, integrated platform; others need to preserve SAN investments, scale...

Claude at Work: my new Manning book is out now. Learn how to use the full Claude platform to effectively design, build and run software with agents.

Learn about the latest announcements from the AKS team around workload and AI isolation, AI agents, and efficiency. 

When a critical production incident starts, the first message we often receive is something like: “The database is down.”  At that moment, everything...

PSMcpClient, a PowerShell module that spawns a published stdio MCP server, speaks JSON-RPC to it and gives you its tools as ordinary PowerShell commands.

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol are joining model choice in Microsoft Copilot.  

Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and providing guidance for defenders.

Swagger UI used to ship by default with ASP.NET Core API projects, but recent .NET versions replaced it with a bare OpenAPI document. This post compares Swagger and Scalar as documentation UIs, walks through setting up each one in .NET 10, and covers when to pick one over the other.

Learn how Microsoft Foundry is connecting agents with enterprise knowledge, supporting long-running execution, and applying governance.

Explore how a scientist used Microsoft Discovery and AI agents to analyze wastewater metagenomics and investigate viral patterns with expert oversight.

Microsoft’s Autopilots mark a shift from AI that responds to prompts to persistent agents with identity, initiative and standing responsibilities. As AI...

  Introduction One of the most common questions during Azure networking troubleshooting is: “Did anything change before the issue started?” Whether we...

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

This post explains the new UNISTR function in SQL Server 2025, a small but handy way to embed Unicode codepoints directly into string literals using escape sequences. Before SQL Server 2025, the on…

Scenario Across the industry, manufacturing organizations spend significant engineering effort converting tribal knowledge and assembly demonstrations into...

Microsoft Entra Kerberos for Azure NetApp Files Is in Public Preview

AI is transforming the attacker’s operating model, accelerating threats to unprecedented speed and scale. Yet many security operations centers still...

For many web apps and APIs, a container image should be enough to get started. Developers should not have to choose and configure an environment before the...

Discover how Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud serves as a platform for Kubernetes, data services, and local AI beyond just virtualization.

Compare Microsoft Foundry prompt agents and Hosted Agents, including execution control, tools, workflow state, costs, and when to choose each

A common question that we get from our customers is "Hey guys, we are excited about SRE agent and we 've created one but whats the best way to configure...

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

Agentic applications increasingly need to process entire code repositories, large document collections, images, tool results, and long-running conversation...

Azure API Management now provides a generally available policy for sending messages to Azure Service Bus. Using the send-service-bus-message policy, an...

Deploy Entra joined AVD session hosts on Azure Local with PowerShell, configure FSLogix profiles and automate session host configuration with guest scripts.