Get started faster with common SQL workflows and resources in one place. The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.46 introduces a new Getting Started page experience in Public Preview with quick actions, guided walkthroughs, dev container templates, and one-click installation of the latest Microsoft SQL agent skills for GitHub Copilot. Available to all customers starting with this release, the […]
We’re pleased to share that SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 is now generally available, with built-in support for mssql-python, Microsoft’s Python driver for SQL Server. You can now use it with SQLAlchemy’s ORM and Core APIs through the first-party mssql+mssqlpython dialect. If SQLAlchemy is already part of how you build, we want this to feel like a natural
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The following is a list of Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn sorted from introductory to advanced. Is there an Active Directory topic that isn’t listed here that you’d like to see covered? (AD CS modules are coming). If you know all this, remember we have the free 45 minute practical Active Directory
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When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacpac and dacpac files share some core similarities as well as some major differences in how they’re used in SqlPackage and other
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If you administer Windows, you’re already aware of Windows Firewall. You might use it to allow an application, open a port, or block unwanted inbound traffic. But those familiar tasks only scratch the surface of what it can do. The Microsoft Learn module Understand advanced Windows Firewall takes you beyond basic rules and introduces Windows
Introduction Building AI agents that can actually do things in your business systems—create records, update opportunities, trigger workflows—typically requires weeks of custom integration work. The Dataverse MCP Server changes that. In this tutorial, you’ll connect a Microsoft Foundry agent to your Dataverse environment in under 30 minutes, giving your AI agent secure, real-time access to
Part 2 of a series. Part 1, Grounding Copilot Studio Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ, defined five grounding patterns. This article gives you a reproducible way to compare them without mixing latency boundaries, billing units, or quality signals. Reference implementation, not a production template. This article is for architects, agent developers, and
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Building an agent shouldn’t require you to reinvent platform capabilities. With Microsoft Foundry, hosted agents inherit essential capabilities such as authentication, ingress management, A2A transport, and discovery endpoints, freeing developers to focus on business logic and user value. This article demonstrates the quickest route from a local containerized agent to a fully discoverable A2A endpoint
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A Real-World Scenario Imagine a customer support agent that answers invoice questions. During testing, everything works perfectly. But in production: The Finance API occasionally times out. The knowledge base contains outdated information. Tool calls fail during peak traffic. Token consumption rises unexpectedly. The result isn’t a broken AI model. It’s an unreliable system. This is
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Use ACS to enforce Scope, Anchored Decisions, Flow Integrity, and Escalation while the agent runs, then prove the controls without model variance. Two sign-in failures, two correct outcomes A help desk agent receives two reports that sound almost identical: “I cannot sign in.” In the first case, the identity service is healthy, the account is
