Backup/Recovery

Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/02/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In large scale AI clusters storage is responsible for delivering training data fast enough to keep accelerators busy and completing checkpoint saves and recoveries quickly enough to avoid costly stalls. MLPerf Storage is an industry-standard benchmark developed by MLCommons that reproduces the I/O patterns of different stages of AI pipelines covering training, checkpointing, context cache […]

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Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 8 minutes of reading

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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Advanced Windows Firewall

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 4 minutes of reading

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

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Build a SAFE Agent on Microsoft Foundry

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 08/20/2026 / 20 minutes of reading

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

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When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 08/13/2026 / 18 minutes of reading

Introduction: The Failure That Demos Do Not Show A user asks an AI agent a simple question: “Create a procurement request for 10 laptops for the new project team.” The agent does what it was designed to do. It checks the procurement policy. It verifies budget availability. It calls the procurement system. The procurement system

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Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are in good company. In session this session of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya Tadikonda

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Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

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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Troubleshooting SQL Authentication Failures on Azure SQL Database Geo-Secondary Replicas

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/30/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Scenario Background During a recent investigation, a customer reported that SQL Authentication was failing when connecting to an Azure SQL Database geo-secondary replica. The customer confirmed the following: SQL Authentication worked successfully against the primary replica. The geo-secondary database was healthy and synchronized. The replicated database user existed in the secondary database. Microsoft Entra authentication

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Lessons Learned #550: From a Support Case to Reusable Knowledge

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/29/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Reaching Lessons Learned #550 is an important milestone for me. However, the value of this series is not only the number of articles published. Each article started with a technical question, an unexpected behavior, a support investigation, or a scenario that required additional testing and analysis. Some cases resulted in a configuration change. Others required

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SQL Data Sync Retirement: Migration Insights and Modern Alternatives

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/24/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

What started as a routine customer discussion quickly evolved into a strategic modernization conversation. A service that had quietly synchronized business-critical data for years was approaching retirement, prompting an important question: What should organizations do next?  Every service retirement is an opportunity to reassess architecture, reduce technical debt, and build for the future. When a

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