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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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
The next wave of AI applications won’t be defined by how quickly models answer questions. They’ll be defined by how much work they can complete. Whether resolving repository issues, navigating codebases, generating engineering designs, or executing multi-step enterprise workflows, developers are increasingly building systems that need models capable of staying on task across complex, long-running
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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Open models are driving a new wave of AI innovation, giving organizations more freedom to choose the models that best fit their requirements for performance, cost, latency, customization, and governance. As the open model ecosystem evolves rapidly, developers want access to the latest innovations without being locked into a single model provider or deployment approach.
If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job done – until you hit hardware limits or spend weekends manual backup scripts and handling OS patches. Learn how to upgrade from SQL Server Express to Azure
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Workflow automation scenarios—including grounding AI agents, verifying identities, assisting customers with documents in call centers, and triggering document-based workflows—depend on immediate content processing, where every second matters. Now in public preview, synchronous Read, Layout, and Digital Parse operations in Azure Content Understanding, part of Foundry Tools, deliver real-time content extraction without temporary service-side storage. Note:
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The setup You’ve built the deployment the enterprise architecture review asked for. Nothing touches the public internet. Your Microsoft Foundry resource is private — public network access disabled, a private endpoint fronting it inside your virtual network. Every resource the agent depends on is locked down the same way: Azure AI Search — private endpoint,
The era of the single best model is over Microsoft Foundry is no longer just a shelf of foundation models. It is becoming an enterprise model portfolio: frontier models for complex reasoning, cost-optimized models for scale, specialized models for documents and media, and first-party Microsoft AI models for text, image, voice, and speech. That shift
Hello Folks If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone. In session MAIS23 of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya, Aditya, and Chaya from the Azure Resiliency product team walked us through the new Resiliency
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