Technical articles from Azure experts and developers about the latest information, insights, and news from the Microsoft Azure blogs
Overview Microsoft HPC Pack is a Windows‑based high‑performance computing (HPC) scheduler that enables customers to deploy, manage, and operate HPC workloads in on‑premises and hybrid environments. Since its original release, HPC Pack has supported a range of Windows‑centric HPC scenarios, including job scheduling, workload orchestration, and integration with Windows Server–based technologies. Microsoft is announcing the […]
The AI agent has moved from pilot project to production faster than most security programs were built to handle. Every AI agent you deploy is now a security problem before it is a productivity win. This Microsoft Agent 365 security deep dive breaks down exactly how the platform observes, governs, and secures agents in your
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Remote Help lets your helpdesk team screen-share, chat with, and (with the right permission) take elevated control of a user’s session — including AVD multi-session hosts where several users can be active on the same VM at once. This is a two-part walkthrough. Part 1 covers enabling Remote Help at the tenant level and doing
Setting Up Microsoft Intune Remote Help on Azure Virtual Desktop Continue Reading
In this article Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences. Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these technologies perform in production and where we should continue investing. I’m honored to share that Microsoft Databases have received multiple 2026 PeerSpot Customer Choice / Tech
What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness Continue Reading
Reclaiming host pool capacity from disconnected sessions is one of those AVD hygiene tasks that’s easy to configure once by hand in Intune, and easy to forget to replicate consistently across every host pool, tenant, or DTAP environment you manage. If you’re standing up host pools programmatically — or you just want this baked into
Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations. To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the next generation of telecom-focused AI designed to bring deeper telecommunications expertise into AI
AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD Continue Reading
On July 15th, 2026, I received my 5th Microsoft MVP award — and once again, it’s a dual award, recognizing my contributions in both Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. This one feels different. Not because the process changed, but because of what it represents: five consecutive years of being recognized in Azure Virtual
Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivered as a native Azure service, so it fits naturally into the Microsoft tools, identity, and governance your organization already
Azure Databricks delivers proven business value Continue Reading
If your AVD environment is built entirely on cloud-only or external Entra ID identities — no on-prem AD, no Entra Domain Services — you can still give users FSLogix roaming profiles on Azure Files. Microsoft Entra Kerberos handles the ticket issuance, so the storage account can authenticate users over SMB without any line-of-sight to a
