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Azure Delivers Strong MLPerf Inference v6.1 Results with NVIDIA GB300 & GB200

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/16/2026 / 2 minutes of reading

By Mark Gitau and Azin Heidarshenas In the MLPerf Inference v6.1 round, Azure demonstrated strong Deepseek-R1 performance on GB300 NVL72 and GB200 NVL72 platforms. Azure submitted GB200 results at 18-node (1-rack) and 72-node (4-rack) scale, and GB300 results at 18 nodes (1 rack), marking our first rack-scale and cross-rack MLPerf Inference submissions. According to results published […]

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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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Container Network Insights Agent (CNIA): Your AI Teammate for AKS Networking Incidents

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you run AKS in production, you already know the script. A pod cannot reach an external service, every dashboard says the cluster is healthy, and somebody is SSHing into a node with five browser tabs open trying to piece the story together.  This session from the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 tackles

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From Azure Container Apps to Microsoft Foundry: building and evaluating a Patch Tuesday MCP server

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 08/11/2026 / 14 minutes of reading

**Disclaimer:** This is an independent, self-built project and is not an official Microsoft tool or service. It reads public security-update data and is intended as an educational example of building an MCP server, hosting it responsibly on Azure, and evaluating an agent workflow with Microsoft Foundry. By Jon Butler The monthly Patch Tuesday question Every

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The Hidden Reason Your Foundry Agent Can’t Reach Any of Your Private (Bring-Your-Own) Resources

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 08/07/2026 / 9 minutes of reading

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,

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Lessons Learned #551: Azure SQL Connection Timeouts: Three Things to Check

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 08/05/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

An application starts reporting intermittent timeouts when connecting to Azure SQL Database. Some requests succeed, others fail, and a test from a developer’s laptop works perfectly. The database appears online, no recent deployment seems related, and the natural reaction is to ask: Is Azure SQL unavailable? Is the firewall blocking the connection? Should we increase

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Agentic Migrations and Modernization: How the Azure Migrate Agent Keeps Your Intent Alive End to End

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

Hello Folks! If you have ever tried to move a few hundred VMs, a pile of databases, and a couple of web apps from on-prem to Azure, you already know the hard part is not the tooling. The hard part is keeping context, intent, and momentum alive across weeks of planning, hand-offs, and decisions. In

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From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent

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

Hello Folks! It’s 3 a.m. Your phone lights up. A critical workload that spans multiple clouds is on fire, ownership is fuzzy, the alert routed to the wrong team first, and now it’s your problem. You sit up in bed, cold and groggy, and start the ritual. Open the runbook. Pull logs from one place.

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Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade

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

Hello Folks! If you have ever spent a long afternoon untangling overlapping CIDR ranges, chasing down a broken VNet peering, or trying to remember which UDR points to which firewall, this MAIS 2026 session is going to feel uncomfortably familiar. Jon Ormond (Principal PM, Azure Networking) brought along Jay Li and Jeff Lovett from the

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Azure Files, Reimagined: Top-Level Shares with Per-Share Networking, Billing, and Scale

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

Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live together, this session is going to address all that. During Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Vincent Du and Will Gries (both Product Managers

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