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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP

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Curious potato, keen on Azure, Bicep and Infrastructure as Code. Microsoft Azure & AI Foundry MVP. Mountain climber and photography lover. Proud beer practitioner. 📍Switzerland North 🔗 marcogerber.ch 📋 github.com/gerbermarco/cheat-sheets

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 28/01/2026
👻 What you see isn't always what your AI sees. I briefly talked about ASCII smuggling at last year's Swiss Microsoft Security Summit. Since then, I've noticed this topic rarely comes up, so I decided to dig deeper and share what I learned. 👉 marcogerber.ch/ascii-smuggl...
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ASCII Smuggling: A Threat Hidden in Plain Sight - marcogerber.ch
Discover how ASCII smuggling uses invisible Unicode characters to bypass AI filters and manipulate LLM responses.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 13/11/2025
I’m beyond honored that my project "Hear the World using Azure OpenAI and a Raspberry Pi" was featured in the official @raspberrypi.com magazine! 🎉 If you're interested, feel free to grab a physical copy or the free PDF edition from the Raspberry Pi website: magazine.raspberrypi.com/issues/159
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Issue 159 — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine
Does your project need a microcontroller, a full-fat computer with all the processing power and connectivity that entails, or a small, low-power computer that’s incredibly affordable and yet can still...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 01/10/2025
What if Bicep could do more than deploy to Azure? 🦾 With Bicep Local Deploy, you can extend Bicep much like Terraform providers - from automating deployments to managing on-prem or SaaS. Learn more about how to use it, and what’s happening behind the scenes. 🔗
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Bicep Local Deploy - Deploy anything using Azure Bicep - marcogerber.ch
Discover Bicep Local Deploy, an experimental feature that enables custom extensions to run locally - taking Bicep beyond Azure.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 15/09/2025
Coming: External Key Management to extend Azure Managed HSM 🔐 Bring your own keys from on-prem or trusted 3rd-party HSMs, no longer limited to Azure Key Vault/Managed HSM. This will affect SLAs, since customers are responsible for their HSM and keys. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06...
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Announcing comprehensive sovereign solutions empowering European organizations - The Official Microsoft Blog
Today, we are taking the next step in strengthening our European digital commitments to empower our customers with greater choice, more control over their data privacy and the most robust digital resi...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 12/09/2025
Upload blocked by DLP - until it saw my new Information Security Administrator Associate certificate 🎉 learn.microsoft.com/api/credenti...
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Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 18/08/2025
Azure Bastion integration with AKS is now in public preview. Use Azure CLI to open a tunnel to a private AKS cluster, which uses the Bastion host in the background. AKS clusters with public FQDN disabled aren't currently supported. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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Connect to AKS Private Cluster Using Azure Bastion (Preview) - Azure Bastion
Learn how to securely connect to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) private clusters using Azure Bastion's native client tunneling. Step-by-step guide with prerequisites and commands to establish secure a...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 21/06/2025
RIP then 🥲
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 20/06/2025
I encountered a new error during Bicep deployments that worked fine until recently: ❗The content for this response was already consumed❗ Looks like it started with Azure CLI 2.73.0 - errors don’t show properly. Read more details and solutions in my latest blog post: marcogerber.ch/the-content-...
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Bicep: The content for this response was already consumed - marcogerber.ch
Troubleshooting the "The content for this response was already consumed" error in Azure Bicep deployments with Azure CLI.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 28/05/2025
Looks like there is an issue in the Azure portal where resources cannot be found. Related actions are failing as a result. I've observed this behavior across multiple tenants.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 27/05/2025
I've built a simple Streamlit chat app using the Azure AI Inference client for quick model testing, PoC's, and demos. 🧩 Features: - Text & image input - Model switcher - System prompt presets - Session-based chat history - Console logging for debugging Check it out: marcogerber.ch/streamlit-ch...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 06/05/2025
Very interesting article: Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology - Nature Communications
Vision-language artificial intelligence models (VLMs) can be employed to recognize lesions in cancer images. Here, the authors show that VLMs can be misled by prompt injection attacks, producing harmf...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 01/05/2025
Defender for AI Services is now GA and available for all subscriptions! 🛡️ Learn more about its capabilities: marcogerber.ch/defender-for...
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Defender for Cloud - Threat protection for AI workloads - marcogerber.ch
Explore threat protection for AI Services in Defender for Cloud, including the new AI Services protection plan, concept, alerts, and more.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 30/04/2025
Public Preview: Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP). Virtual network TAP (agentless) leverages Azure’s native infrastructure to mirror traffic with minimal overhead and zero performance impact on VMs. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/update...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 24/04/2025
Finally! Easy service upgrade and change service tier in Azure AI Search (Public Preview). Azure AI Search now lets you easily change service tiers between Basic, S1, S2, and S3 tiers or upgrade for more capacity and features - no rebuild or reindexing needed. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/update...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 17/04/2025
Public Preview: Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure Functions. Azure Functions now supports an early preview of triggers and bindings for building tools with remote MCP and server-sent events (SSE). azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/update...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 16/04/2025
Today's learning 💡 Private Endpoints generate a /32 default route that automatically propagates within their vnet and peered vnets. In hub-spoke architectures, this can inadvertently bypass firewalls or an NVA. To mitigate this, take a look at 'Network Policies for Private Endpoints'.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 15/04/2025
Using 'extends' in Azure Bicep forces all parameters from the root file to be inherited and used. I suggested making this optional in a GitHub Issue - give it a thumbs up or +1 if you’d find that useful!👍 github.com/Azure/bicep/...
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Make Inherited Parameters Optional in Bicep `extends` Feature · Issue #16813 · Azure/bicep
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When using the extendable Bicep parameters feature, all parameters from a root parameter file need to be used in all inherited Bicep f...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 11/04/2025
There seems to be an issue with hosted agents on Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions. An error occurs when using ubuntu-latest and the Azure CLI task to deploy Bicep files: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/vsts/work/_temp/.azclitask/bin/bicep' github.com/Azure/azure-...
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Az bicep lint throws NotFound Exception Error on Microsoft hosted build-agent (Azure Pipelines) when using AzCli tasks · Issue #31226 · Azure/azure-cli
Describe the bug Running az bicep lint via the AzCLI task in ADO is failing with an error. This job was working fine until the last hour or so and just stopped working. ADO Logs: az bicep lint --fi...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 09/04/2025
Copilot in Azure is now generally available, with all current capabilities remaining free of charge. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurein...
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Microsoft Copilot in Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of Copilot in Azure. We are also thrilled to share that the current capabilities of Copilot in...
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GitHub @github.com · 05/04/2025
Maintainers: Did you know you could spend less time doing repetitive tasks and more time coding? 💡 Maintainership will never be the same once you start using these GitHub Actions. ⬇️ github.blog/open-source/...
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5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know
With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 02/04/2025
A new Computer-Using Agent (CUA) is coming to the Azure AI Foundry. This allows you to automate UI driven workflows, like autonomous UI navigation. I wonder how this works in real life and whether this is the right approach for sustainable automation. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...
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Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry | Microsoft Azure Blog
We’re excited to introduce two powerful innovations in Azure AI Foundry. Learn more.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 23/03/2025
Arrived in Seattle after a great flight right over Greenland, what a view! Ready for my first MVP Summit, can‘t wait to meet everybody 👋🏻 😃 #MVPBuzz #MVPSummit @alschneiter.bsky.social
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 20/03/2025
Retirement: Kubenet Networking for Azure Kubernetes Service to Be Retired on March 31, 2028. Upgrade to CNI overlay in time. azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/update...
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BicepLang @biceplang.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪 Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 18/03/2025
New blog post 📢 Learn more about Dev Containers and how to quickly spin up containerized, reproducible development environments, including a cheat sheet to get you started. Check it out: marcogerber.ch/dev-c...
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Dev Containers: Develop inside a container - marcogerber.ch
Discover how Dev Containers in VS Code simplify development by providing consistent, containerized environments.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 18/03/2025
You can now use the Vision input in VS Code and Visual Studio in public preview. github.blog/changelog/20...
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Copilot Chat users can now use the Vision input in VS Code and Visual Studio in public preview · GitHub Changelog
Copilot Chat users can now use the Vision input in VS Code and Visual Studio in public preview
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 14/03/2025
The Swiss MVP Gettogether was a lot of fun, playing Ping Pong all night long 🏓 See you next time! #MVPBuzz
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 12/03/2025
Did you know you can generate dynamic diagrams directly inside a markdown file in GitHub? docs.github.com/en/get-start...
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Creating diagrams - GitHub Docs
Create diagrams to convey information through charts and graphs
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 10/03/2025
You can now enable a new GPT-4o Copilot model for code completion. The new GPT-4o mini based model, with additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories across 30+ popular programming languages, offers enhanced accuracy and performance. github.blog/changelog/20...
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New GPT-4o Copilot code completion model available now in public preview for Copilot in VS Code · GitHub Changelog
New GPT-4o Copilot code completion model now available in public preview for Copilot in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs
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John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP @johnlokerse.dev · 08/03/2025
GitHub Copilot custom instructions is now GA! Update your Visual Studio Code (v1.98) to have this out of experimental. I have updated my blog post on this: johnlokerse.dev/2024/11/11/i... #github #githubcopilot
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Improve code generation with custom instructions for GitHub Copilot
If you are using GitHub Copilot, there is an exciting feature you should try: GitHub Copilot custom instructions. With custom instructions, GitHub Copilot can better align with your coding style an…
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 07/03/2025
New public IP address ranges have been added for Azure DevOps. devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/updat...
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Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses - Azure DevOps Blog
We are excited to announce some important upgrades to our networking infrastructure that will enhance the performance and reliability of our service. As part of these infrastructure upgrades, we are i...
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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 25/02/2025
Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview): the next evolution in AI-assisted coding. Copilot in agent mode is capable of running terminal commands, iterating on its own code to fix errors, and so much more. Available in VS Code Insiders now. Learn more: code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/0...
A diagram of agent mode, showing the flow between the machine, user, workspace, and Copilot
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 25/02/2025
Best money spent in a long time ☕️
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 24/02/2025
Data store decision tree: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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Data store decision tree - Azure Application Architecture Guide
Select an Azure data store for your application. View a graphical representation of choosing your data store.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 06/02/2025
A new AI workloads protection plan is coming to Defender for Cloud! 🛡️ It generates alerts for threats like jailbreaks, data poisoning, leakage, and credential theft for models on Azure OpenAI and model inference. Learn more (jailbreak demo included): marcogerber.ch/defender-for...
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Defender for Cloud - Threat protection for AI workloads - marcogerber.ch
Explore threat protection for AI workloads in Defender for Cloud, including the new AI workload protection plan, concept, alerts, and more.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 04/02/2025
Azure SQL Database now has a free tier including 10 serverless databases with an allocation of 100,000 vCore seconds of compute, 32 GB of data storage, and 32 GB of backup storage every month. Great for testing or smaller projects without spending a ton! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq...
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Introducing the Enhanced Azure SQL Database Free Offer: Now Generally Available | Microsoft Community Hub
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of our new Azure SQL Database free offer. Now, each Azure subscription includes not just one, but 10...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 03/02/2025
Have you ever wondered what alerts Defender for Cloud actually covers? Here's a reference list that shows the alerts for each protection plan: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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Reference guide for security alerts - Microsoft Defender for Cloud
This article links to the various security alerts visible in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 02/02/2025
AI workload protection is in public preview in Defender for Cloud, noice! 🛡️🤖
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 30/01/2025
Bicep community call wrap-up: The latest update adds the fail() function for custom errors, "Export as Bicep" returning to Azure Portal (ETA: March), and Bicep is coming to Copilot in Azure (Preview) for template generation. Plus, version pinning for Bicep files. 💪
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 30/01/2025
I got quota errors on a new Azure OpenAI deployment. In AI Foundry, the quota seemed used but without specific resources, like in Switzerland North. The issue? Deleted OpenAI services still hold capacity. Solution: Purge deleted instances in the Azure portal, and the capacity is released. 🗑️
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 29/01/2025
Had a great time at Microsoft’s executive roundtable yesterday, discussing security & AI! Really interesting to see how Ontinue runs its advanced SOC services. Loved sharing thoughts on securing Azure workloads in the age of AI. Thanks @microsoft.com , Ontinue & Holinger! 🛡️
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 21/01/2025
AI agents are currently a hot topic. Agents are more of a concept than concrete products or services. Learn more about the "agentic" approach up to multi-agent orchestration architectures that can autonomously find solutions and complete tasks. 🤖 Blog post: marcogerber.ch/the-c...
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The concept of AI agents - marcogerber.ch
Learn more about the concept of AI agents and how they benefit by autonomously performing tasks using advanced logic, APIs, and LLMs.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 20/01/2025
Interesting to see such new approaches. MatterGen is a GenAI tool for discovering new materials. Instead of testing individual materials according to the requirements, MatterGen finds or creates materials based on the materialistic requirements. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Rethinking materials innovation with AI
Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error expe...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 14/01/2025
Have you ever wondered what the Microsoft Container Registry contains? Here's the list of images: mcr.microsoft.com/v2/_catalog
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 09/01/2025
GitHub Copilot in VS Code cheat sheet 💡 code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
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GitHub Copilot in VS Code cheat sheet
Get a quick overview of the GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio Code. GitHub Copilot provides AI-powered features to help you write code faster and with less effort.
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 07/01/2025
Does anyone know a way to strictly enforce MFA or reauthentication on #PIM role activations? I know you can use Authentication Contexts, but since an access token is created for the MS-PIM app including the MFA claim, this only works for the first activation in a session. #ConditionalAccess #EntraID
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Code: github.com/gerbermarco/...
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 16/12/2024
Hello Bluesky! 🦋 Post created using Semantic Kernel. #HelloWorld
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Dan @rios.engineer · 10/12/2024
💪 Azure Bicep - December - Final Community Call of 2024! ➡️ 0.31 Release ➡️ 6 month roadmap ➡️ Version pinning for Bicep ➡️ User-Definted Types with variable access ➡️ Community requested updates 🔗 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_U... 🔗 Join Bicep Users LinkedIn Group: tinyurl.com/bicepusers
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Bicep Community Call - December '24
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Marco Gerber | Microsoft Azure & Foundry MVP @marcogerber.ch · 09/12/2024
Me neither bro, me neither.
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