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 […]
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
Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn Continue Reading
Overview Microsoft HPC Pack is a Windows‑based high‑performance computing (HPC) scheduler that enables customers to deploy, manage, and operate HPC workloads in on‑premises and hybrid environments. Since its original release, HPC Pack has supported a range of Windows‑centric HPC scenarios, including job scheduling, workload orchestration, and integration with Windows Server–based technologies. Microsoft is announcing the
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 The knowledge base contains outdated information.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
Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Microsoft Foundry: 10 Lessons Learned Continue Reading
GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry is built on GPT-5.6 Sol, bringing focused responses, improved factual reliability, and consistent behavior to conversational applications without requiring developers to select a newly named model endpoint. This update gives developers access to the latest chat model improvements for advanced, natural, multimodal, and context-aware experiences while preserving an existing integration path
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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
When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry Continue 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,
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.
From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent Continue Reading
Remote Help lets your helpdesk team screen-share, chat with, and (with the right permission) take elevated control of a user’s session — including AVD multi-session hosts where several users can be active on the same VM at once. This is a two-part walkthrough. Part 1 covers enabling Remote Help at the tenant level and doing
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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
