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In this post, johshmsft explains how Azure Container Registry geo-replication was made health-aware by wiring ACR Health Monitor’s deep dependency checks into Azure Traffic Manager, so the global endpoint avoids routing to degraded replicas during regional incidents.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for building an agentic AI solution with the VS Code AI Toolkit and Microsoft (Azure AI) Foundry—from model selection and prototyping to hosting, deployment, evaluation, red teaming, and monitoring.

Welcome to this week’s roundup. The common thread is agents moving beyond “helpful chat” into real execution across IDEs, terminals, CI, and cloud operations. Copilot’s latest changes focus on autonomy and repeatable behavior through repo-visible instruction files, lifecycle hooks, clearer model routing, and faster PR review workflows, while modernization tooling ties assessments and plans directly to issues and pull requests. In parallel, the rest of the stack is catching up to the day-to-day requirements of running agents like software: traces and debugging loops, structured outputs and schema enforcement, and clearer guardrails around approvals, secrets, and identity-based access.

carlottacaste walks through an end-to-end workflow for taking an agent from prototype to production using the AI Toolkit in VS Code and Microsoft Foundry, covering model selection, agent setup, migration to hosted code, deployment, and ongoing evaluation/monitoring.

Gloridel Morales details the March patch release for Azure DevOps Server, providing guidance on installation, verification, and who needs the update for secure DevOps operations.

Satya Nadella shares a milestone for Microsoft, leading the cloud market by validating the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system—a foundational building block for future AI infrastructure.

Diego Casati and Ray Kao explore the challenges of scaling platform engineering processes, focusing on specialization, tool complexity, and the growing role of AI-powered collaboration in the Azure ecosystem.

PuiChee (PC) Chan explains how to use new Azure Developer CLI (azd) commands to diagnose and debug hosted AI agent failures, providing developers with direct access to container status and live logs from the terminal.

aayodeji covers the major upgrades in Azure Managed Grafana 12, highlighting new Entra authentication, faster Azure Monitor log query workflows, Prometheus metric improvements, and streamlined database monitoring for Azure environments.

NagaSurendran details practical strategies for organizations migrating from Heroku, focusing on how Azure and its integrated tools—including GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry—enable modern, secure, and intelligent cloud-native applications.

nitrox2000 requests troubleshooting assistance for persistent routing from an Azure VM to a third-party network via their on-premises Cisco ASA firewall, after successfully migrating from an on-prem VM setup.

JeevanManoj presents an in-depth guide to the public preview of Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP, highlighting enhanced enterprise identity management and security.

Aurnov Chattopadhyay summarizes the highlights from the February 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, covering developments in Arc Server Reporting, application deployment on Arc-enabled servers, and Windows Server 2016 ESU support.

FeynmanZhou highlights Azure Container Registry's new proactive health monitoring and auto-communication features, empowering teams to integrate ACR outage alerts and diagnostics seamlessly into their DevOps and incident workflows.

In this presentation, Microsoft Developer, featuring Bob Ward, explains how to set up and scale AI agents using Copilot Studio and Azure SQL Database for only $10 a month, with no coding required.

Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces Ontology Rules and Fabric Activator integration in Fabric IQ, showing how business logic can now drive real-time actions using enterprise data models.

Microsoft Fabric Blog details how VS Code users can now deploy SQL database schema changes directly to Fabric, streamlining data engineering workflows. Author Microsoft Fabric Blog explains new publish dialog and item templates, improving productivity for database and application development teams.

The Microsoft Fabric Blog team showcases how agentic AI apps can be operationalized for production with Microsoft Fabric, highlighting real-time monitoring, data governance, and analytics.

Lee_Stott explores how to build On-Call Copilot, an AI-driven, multi-agent incident triage and reporting solution using Microsoft Agent Framework, Foundry Hosted Agents, Model Router, and Azure OpenAI—detailing the technical patterns, code, and deployment steps for practical DevOps engineers.

Vlad Fedorov discusses the recent series of GitHub outages, pinpointing their technical causes and highlighting steps—such as a major migration to Azure—that GitHub's engineering team is taking to improve reliability and incident response for developers.