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 […]
Bob Ward and I recently released a series of videos, read more in the original blog post or go directly to the series on YouTube. The Azure SQL Database Foundations series are four videos that take you from your first Hyperscale database to AI features running against your own operational data. We also included how to assess
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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
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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The 2 a.m. Question Nobody Wants to Answer Twice It is the night before open enrollment closes. An employee in another time zone has a question about HSA eligibility. No HR representative is available, and the FAQ PDF she received three months ago is nowhere to be found. She does not want to submit a
Hello Folks! If you have ever run a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) estate, you know the recurring riddle. The session hosts are designed to be stateless and pooled, yet every user expects a persistent Outlook profile, their OneDrive cache, their pinned apps, and a sub-ten-second logon. In this session at the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit
Modernize VDI with Azure Files and Entra Cloud-Native Identities Continue Reading
This week Microsoft Foundry adds two major model families alongside a reasoning powerhouse that spans the full spectrum from specialized speech and vision to general-purpose coding and long-context analysis. IBM’s Granite 4.1 is a famiily of 10: six LLMs across 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes in both full-precision and FP8 variants, plus a safety model,
Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Continue Reading
We are thrilled to announce that Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) connection, enabling low‑latency, real‑time voice interactions directly from web and mobile clients. Why WebRTC is required in real-time voice agent building WebRTC enables real‑time, bi‑directional audio and video streaming directly in the browser without plugins or native installs. Unlike WebSocket,
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In this article On March 31, 2026, two new npm packages for updated versions of Axios, a popular HTTP client for JavaScript that simplifies making HTTP requests to a REST endpoint with over 70 million weekly downloads, were identified as malicious. These versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were injected with a malicious dependency to download payloads
Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise Continue Reading
Today we’re introducing “The Shift” podcast, an evolution of “Leading the Shift,” to share more dialogue. Grounded in questions we heard from you after announcements at Ignite, we’re releasing eight episodes this spring. Every day in the hallways at Microsoft, I hear product teams discussing where agents are headed and how software is forever changed.
Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast Continue Reading
