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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Hello Folks! Operating at Azure scale means managing change across multiple interconnected systems. As applications, services, and dependencies evolve, resilience becomes a foundational design principle rather than an afterthought. In this Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 session, Bhavana Konchada, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and lead architect of the Resilience Control Platform, takes us behind
Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design Continue 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
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
Microsoft has released Windows Server vNext Preview Build 29621, and one feature stands out as a major step forward for on‑premises virtualization security: Trusted Launch for Generation 2 virtual machines. This capability, long familiar to Azure users, is now arriving in Windows Server for local Hyper‑V environments. What Trusted Launch Brings to Windows Server Trusted
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Hello Folks! If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data. In this session during the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Wolfgang de Salvador and Reena Shah from the Azure Storage
Feeding the GPUs: File Storage for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure Continue Reading
Hello Folks! If you have been running Premium SSD v1 because that is just what you have always done, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 is going to be a wake up call. Raymond Lui and Adam Li from the Azure Disk Storage team walked us through Premium SSD v2 (PV2 for
Last week, I worked on a support case in which the use of the MultiSubnetFailover connection-string feature was being considered for an application connecting to Azure SQL Database. The expectation was that enabling the following option could improve connection recovery during a database failover changing MultiSubnetFailover to True. This option is commonly associated with SQL
Lessons Learned #543: Evaluating MultiSubnetFailover with Azure SQL Database Continue Reading
In this article Resiliency in the cloud is often described in terms of availability, such as how quickly a system fails over, how many replicas exist, or what a service-level agreement guarantees. But for most organizations today, especially those operating in regulated, sovereign, or geopolitically sensitive environments, resiliency is something far more fundamental. It is
Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved Continue Reading
You’ve built an agentic service. It works. It uses the framework you chose — maybe LangChain, maybe Semantic Kernel, maybe the Microsoft Agent Framework, maybe something entirely your own. It talks to your LLM, calls your downstream APIs, and manages multi-turn conversations the way you designed it. Now someone asks: “Can we surface this in
Deploying an Agentic Service to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Delegated OBO Access Continue Reading
