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dchelupati explains how to scale Azure SRE Agent from a single team to enterprise-wide use, focusing on access control, guardrails, auditing, multi-agent topologies, and “agent as code” practices for repeatable deployment and governance.

dchelupati shares a practical “start small” adoption guide for Azure SRE Agent, focused on picking a first operational use case, connecting only the required context (telemetry, repos, runbooks), and expanding into repeatable workflows with the right triggers and permissions.

Meagan McCrory explains that Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 ended on October 13, 2026, and outlines practical next steps to reduce security and compliance risk by upgrading, migrating to Azure, or modernizing workloads.

paulyuk shows how the Azure SRE Agent canvas fits into GitHub Copilot (App and Copilot CLI) so on-call engineers can validate an agent’s incident diagnosis with their own telemetry, queries, and access controls, then share a reviewed update back to the team.

vinilv shows how to build a small, two-node kubeadm Kubernetes cluster on Azure using an N-series GPU VM, then validate GPU scheduling with the NVIDIA device plugin and a PyTorch CUDA test Job. The guide focuses on a transparent dev sandbox for debugging GPU workloads rather than a production-ready design.

mariozeng explains how Microsoft is rethinking power delivery for Azure AI infrastructure, focusing on grid-to-chip efficiency for high-density GPU systems. The post covers LVDC and 800VDC distribution, disaggregated rack power (Mt. Diablo), solid-state transformers with energy storage, and server-to-silicon power delivery design.

sdighe explains how large-scale AI training and inference are pushing datacenter networks to evolve, and why networking now needs to be designed as part of the AI system. The post highlights open specifications like Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), plus industry efforts around optical interconnects and Ethernet scale-up networking.

Bryankel summarizes six open-source hardware security innovations announced at the Open Compute Project Global Summit, covering workload-attached HSM design (Tessera), integrated TPM in the BMC, whole-system attestation (Composite EAT), hierarchical bare-metal management, streaming-boot recovery, and Caliptra 2.2 silicon hardening with post-quantum crypto support.

Jack Tracey explains that Azure Verified Modules (AVM) has moved from a community-led effort into Azure engineering, with dedicated engineers maintaining the specs, framework, and selected modules. The post outlines changes to AVM’s support statement and introduces a tiered module ownership model planned for early 2027.

Wuyi Weng shows how to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across two H100 GPUs on an Azure Spot VM, then instrument and troubleshoot it with OpenTelemetry, Application Insights/Azure Monitor, and Grafana. The post focuses on KV-cache behavior under agentic load, dashboard pitfalls, and a vLLM KV-cache FP8 setting that improves concurrency and time-to-first-token.

GisliGudmundsson shares a reference pattern for running Azure AI Foundry workloads inside a secure Azure landing zone, using private endpoints and private DNS zones, disabling local auth in favor of managed identity, and placing Azure API Management in front to enforce token limits and emit token usage metrics.

Rama Bhimanadhuni explains how Microsoft is working with the Open Compute Project (OCP) and major hardware vendors to standardize reliability and manageability for large, multi-vendor AI clusters, focusing on RAS signals, diagnostics, telemetry, and safer firmware update workflows to keep fleet capacity and availability high.

Wiliam_Rosa explains how to get earlier, more actionable cost visibility in Azure Databricks using tags, Unity Catalog system tables, account-level budgets, and scheduled SQL alerts—plus Azure-specific features like serverless usage policies that propagate tags into Azure Cost Analysis.

Wuyi Weng shares a practical, numbers-driven guide to self-hosting the Qwen3.8-27B model on an Azure H100 Spot VM, including the exact vLLM serving flags, a Docker Compose deployment, and an end-to-end observability setup with OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, and Grafana to decide when Spot hosting breaks even.

Brittany Pugh lays out a production-minded reference architecture for document-heavy intake on Azure, showing how to put AI behind a governed API gateway, process work asynchronously, and keep an end-to-end audit trail with a single correlation ID across API Management, Service Bus, Functions, and Event Grid.

santiagxf announces a public preview integration that connects Microsoft Agent 365 governance with Azure API Management runtime enforcement for MCP servers and tools, adding optional threat and data protection checks via Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview.

chandanAggarwal announces a public preview feature for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that enables multi-NIC worker nodes and attaching a dedicated NIC directly to a pod using upstream Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) APIs, powered by the AKS-managed DRANET driver.

Wiliam_Rosa breaks down Databricks’ LTAP Direct Writes (beta) for Azure Databricks Lakebase Postgres, explaining how it shifts bulk-load work off the primary to avoid impacting live OLTP traffic. The post covers the architecture, key mechanics (sandboxed Postgres, COPY FREEZE, WAL handoff), and shows CLI/SDK examples for creating and monitoring Synced Tables.

Alex-wdy explains how Azure CLI 2.91.0 adds preview support for native broker-based authentication on macOS, improving enterprise sign-in security and SSO. The post also covers the Homebrew Formula-to-Cask packaging change and provides step-by-step commands to enable, verify, and roll back the new sign-in flow.

Rafia Aqil lays out a practical, end-to-end troubleshooting approach for slow Oracle-to-Power BI refresh and query performance, covering provider choice, FetchSize, query folding, Import vs DirectQuery trade-offs, gateway considerations, and when to shift to Microsoft Fabric Mirroring and OneLake for a different analytics architecture.

torreyt explains how noise reduction in Azure Deployment Stacks What-If makes change previews more trustworthy by filtering out false diffs caused by provider defaults and read-only/write-only properties, and shows how to run Stacks What-If via Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell.

tejabhutada explains practical ways to sync Jira Product Discovery ideas with Azure DevOps Epics, so approved roadmap items flow to engineering without manual re-entry and delivery status flows back to product. It breaks down what the Jira API can and can’t sync, plus the field, user, and state-mapping work that usually trips teams up.

Wiliam_Rosa explains Azure Databricks Lakeflow Jobs “Multiple Triggers” (beta), showing how to run a single job from several conditions (schedule, file arrival, table/model updates) and how to configure, monitor, and reason about concurrency and idempotency when triggers overlap.

gurjsing explains a common BYOK pitfall with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage customer-managed keys: re-importing the same key material creates a new key version and won’t restore the original version identifier that dependent services may still require. The post lays out practical recovery, rotation, monitoring, and backup/restore guidance.

DivSwa announces public preview pricing and monthly free grants for Azure Logic Apps Automation, including what’s covered (managed environment, workflow runtime, retention, connectors, AI usage, knowledge storage, and isolated code execution) and how to track and keep eligibility for the free environment.

bobmital announces the general availability of Anyscale on Azure, a managed Ray runtime that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service in the customer’s subscription. The post explains the control-plane/data-plane split, Azure-native identity and governance integration, private connectivity options, and the kinds of AI/ML workloads teams can run end-to-end.

wise-r reports a production Azure Container Apps outage in the Austria East region where revisions stall at AssigningReplica and never reach image pull or container start events. The thread documents the observed event timeline, troubleshooting steps (new environment, minReplicas, network checks, ACR/managed identity), and the Kusto diagnostics error seen in the Azure Portal.

jalenmcg announces a public preview for onboarding Amazon EKS and Google GKE clusters into Azure Arc using the Azure Arc Multicloud Connector, focusing on automatic discovery, agent installation, and ongoing sync so multicloud Kubernetes can be governed and monitored from Azure.

Sreekanth Thirthala explains an upcoming Azure API Management networking change: new control-plane IPs are being added to the ApiManagement service tag, and customers using VNet internal/external on classic (v1) tiers need to update NSGs, UDRs, and firewall rules by November 30, 2026 to avoid losing management access.

hqaffesha explains how to use Azure Storage Actions in the Azure portal to change Azure Blob Storage access tiers in bulk without writing scripts. The post walks through creating a Storage Task, defining tier-based conditions, assigning it to a storage account with the right RBAC role, and reviewing execution reports, with a practical cost warning before running at scale.

Poornima99 announces the general availability of the GitOps with Argo CD extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), highlighting Microsoft-managed lifecycle, Entra ID SSO, workload identity federation for ACR/Azure DevOps, hardened Azure Linux images, and Azure Managed Prometheus metrics for observability.

shyambasnet shows how to set up proactive monitoring for Azure VPN Gateway Site-to-Site tunnels by using diagnostic logs and an Azure Monitor alert. The post includes the exact KQL query and alert rule settings needed to notify admins as soon as a tunnel enters a Disconnected state.

Alex-wdy explains how the Azure AD Graph (graph.windows.net) retirement impacts older Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell versions, and what to check in developer machines, CI/CD agents, runbooks, and container images to avoid identity automation breaking during the phased shutdown after October 6, 2026.

shobhitgarg announces the public preview of Azure Backup v2 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers and elastic clusters, outlining the move to snapshot-based physical backups, daily incremental scheduling, long-term retention options, and a new “Restore as Server” flow for faster, more consistent recovery.

Kerim Hanif announces the general availability of Azure Site Recovery for Azure Local, highlighting a new one-page Azure portal wizard for preparing infrastructure, plus key GA improvements like WDAC enforcement-mode support and built-in proxy configuration for regulated and locked-down network environments.

NehaNellepalli outlines an architecture for building a reusable analytics layer around Odoo without modifying the ERP, using Azure Data Factory ingestion into ADLS Gen2, Databricks/Spark transformations, and Synapse/SQL modeling for governed Power BI reporting with row-level security.

kinfey breaks down what changes when an AI agent can run tools and create side effects, then shows how to put real execution boundaries around those tools using OpenSandbox on AKS with Kata pod VMs, plus a comparison to Azure Container Apps Sandboxes and Dynamic Sessions.

Sonia Cuff’s September 2026 FinOps roundup pulls together cost and pricing updates across Microsoft’s AI and cloud stack, including Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI pricing changes, new model options, and GitHub Copilot billing/usage metrics updates, plus a few Azure cost-optimization and purchasing notes.

simonjj explains when “decision models” are a better fit than general-purpose LLM calls, then benchmarks a self-hosted Winnow model served by Ollaya on Azure Container Apps serverless GPU against GPT-5.4 Nano via Azure OpenAI, focusing on latency, throughput, accuracy, and token usage trade-offs.

Nic Trajkovic shares a BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services (AIS) Solution Accelerator and asks the community for feedback on common migration challenges, capability mapping, and architecture decisions when modernizing enterprise integration workloads.