Learn about advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor, a premium tier of platform metrics that provides deeper observability for Azure resource providers.

Ronald Beekelaar, founder of Virsoft, has been involved in training and certification within the Microsoft ecosystem since the 1990s. During the MCT summit 2026 in Sarajevo, I spoke to Ronald about th...

Bugs #1695: Fixes an error being thrown when a Logout Route is called for non-authenticated sessions #1698: Fixes a race condition during idle connections timing out #1698: Fixes older requests no...

Enhancements #631: Removes the Interval restriction on Timers, so values of 1+ seconds can be supplied #632: New lines in Paragraph/Text Element values are now properly rendered #684: Close SSE co...

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Extension for Visual Studio Code - bARGE is a boosted Azure Resource Graph Explorer for Visual Studio Code, with features for comparison and insights into KQL results.

Designing and documenting software architecture is often a battle against static diagrams that become outdated the moment they are drawn. The Architecture...

Over the past several years of working with large enterprises, a clear pattern has emerged in conversations about modernizing backup infrastructure. Teams...

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This blogpost describes how you can user PowerShell and Pester to scan your Power Platform solution files for secrets. Add it together in an Azure DevOps pipeline for a fully automated process!

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Welcome back to KQL Toolbox 👋 In the last KQL Toolbox, we zoomed out and looked at billable ingest trends over time—how many GiB per day you’re ingesting, and roughly how much that’s costing you in Microsoft Sentinel. This time, we’re zooming in. Because once you can say “We’re ingesting...

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Configuring Azure Monitor with Log Analytics for IIS Servers Azure Monitor combined with Log Analytics provides centralized telemetry collection for...

As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever.

After all the fuss about Teams users inviting people to chat via email, admins realize that tracking external guest activity is not as easy as it might seem.

Microsoft Ignite sessions are now available on demand. Whether you were unable to attend this year's event or just want a...

At a recent developer conference, I delivered a session on Legacy Code Rescue using GitHub Copilot App Modernization. Throughout the day, conversations with...

In January 2025, Microsoft changed the SharePoint location for email sent to Teams channels. Apparently, this update improved security.

Confused about SAML vs OAuth vs OIDC? This guide explains what each protocol does and when to use them.

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The Copilot usage report Graph API is now generally available. Like the report APIs for the other workloads, the Copilot usage API helps to understand usage

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This article describes how to run Teams PowerShell cmdlets in Azure Automation runbooks and when you might want to do this.

When it comes to connecting systems and automating tasks, n8n has built a passionate community around a powerful, extensible workflow engine. With...

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In this post, we’ll demonstrate how to build a simple yet powerful workflow using Azure Logic Apps, Log Analytics queries, and LLMs to automate log...

Explore what’s new in the MSSQL Extension for VS Code v1.35, including GA for Schema Designer, Schema Compare, and Local SQL Server Containers—plus...

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I wanted a tiny, inexpensive backend to experiment with a AI chat agent on my blog. No Kubernetes, no managed databases, no monthly surprises. In this post I’ll show exactly how I stood up n8n on Azure Container Apps using SQLite and an Azure Files mount so everything persists, and scales to zero when idle. This is the infrastructure piece. In my next post I’ll walk through how I built the AI chat agent itself and wired the blog UI to n8n.

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