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Azure Migration Challenges (and how to resolve them) | Microsoft Community Hub Moving workloads to Azure is rarely plug-and-play. Here are some workarounds for challenges organizations encounter when planning and executing...

Azure Migration Challenges and how to resolve them by Orin Thomas #AzurePolicy #AzureMigrate #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-tal...

🚀 The Great Foundry Shift: Microsoft Foundry New vs Classic Explained | Microsoft Community Hub Introduction If you've been working in the Azure AI ecosystem, you've likely noticed a seismic shift happening at ai.azure.com. What was once Azure AI...

The Great Foundry Shift: Microsoft Foundry New vs Classic Explained by Vinod Soni techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/healthcar...

Evaluating AI Agents: Techniques to Reduce Variance and Boost Alignment for LLM Judges | Microsoft Community Hub In an ideal world, an LLM judge would behave like an experienced Subject Matter Expert (SME). To achieve this, we must align the judge with SME preferences...

Evaluating AI Agents: Techniques to Reduce Variance and Boost Alignment for LLM Judges by James Asher techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Container Security Hardening for Azure Container Apps A practical checklist for hardening containerised .NET workloads on Azure Container Apps, based on patterns implemented in NimbusIQ.

Container Security Hardening for Azure Container Apps by Luke Murray #dotnet #Azure luke.geek.nz/azure/contai...

Azure App Service Managed Instances: What IT/Ops Teams Need to Know | Microsoft Community Hub Azure App Service has long been one of the most reliable ways to run web apps on Azure, giving teams a fully managed platform with built‑in scaling,...

#AzureAppService Managed Instances: What IT/Ops Teams Need to Know by Vinicius Apolinario techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-tal...

332 - Checking out Startup-Scale Landing Zones in Azure | Ctrl+Alt+Azure | Episode 332 In this episode, we take a focused look at Startup-Scale Landing Zones. We've previously discussed Enterprise-scale Landing Zones and how the default model from the Cloud Adoption Framework is the usual...

Startup-Scale Landing Zones in Azure by Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine #Azure share.transistor.fm/s/98c4b25c?u...

Retirement: #AzurePolicy faster enforcement and retirement of login/logout workaround by The Azure Updates Team #Azure azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5...

Introducing GPT-5.3 Chat in Microsoft Foundry: A more grounded way to chat at enterprise scale | Microsoft Community Hub OpenAI’s GPT‑5.3 Chat marks the next step in the GPT‑5 series, designed to deliver more dependable, context‑aware chat experiences for enterprise workloads....

GPT-5.3 Chat in Microsoft Foundry: A more grounded way to chat at enterprise scale by Naomi Moneypenny techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Change-Driven Architecture on Azure with Drasi A practical look at change-driven architecture on Azure with Drasi and PostgreSQL CDC, based on an Emergency Alert System proof of concept.

Change-Driven Architecture on Azure with Drasi by Luke Murray #Azure luke.geek.nz/azure/change...

Defending Container Runtime from Malware with Microsoft Defender for Containers | Microsoft Community Hub In cloud-native environments, malware protection is no longer traditional antivirus — it is runtime workload security, ensuring containerized...

Defending Container Runtime from Malware with Microsoft Defender for Containers by Vasavi Pasula techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Introducing Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision to Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community Hub Vision reasoning models unlock a critical capability for developers: the ability to move beyond passive perception toward systems that can understand, reason...

Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision to Microsoft Foundry by Yash Lara #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Ingress and edge design decisions for API Management Ingress and edge design decisions for APIM, including AFD, App Gateway, private networking constraints, TLS boundaries, and operational lessons learned.

Ingress and edge design decisions for #AzureAPIManagement by Luke Murray #Azure luke.geek.nz/azure/apim-i...

What’s New in Microsoft Sentinel: March 2026 | Microsoft Community Hub March brings a set of updates to Microsoft Sentinel focused on helping your SOC automate faster, onboard data with less friction, and detect threats across...

What's New in Microsoft Sentinel: March 2026 by Noga Ronen #AzureKubernetesService #AzureKubernetesService techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse sub-item metadata in Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Community Hub Working at the intersection of data security, engineering, and governance, the Microsoft Purview product team continually explores capabilities that reshape...

#MicrosoftFabric Lakehouse sub-item metadata in Microsoft Purview by Blesson John #PowerBI techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Announcing the General Availability of the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API | Microsoft Community Hub It was just last September that we were Introducing the Azure Maps Geocode Autocomplete API but now we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA)...

the General Availability of the #AzureMaps Geocode Autocomplete API by Sinny Pan #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-map...

GA of update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Community Hub We’re happy to announce that the update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available (GA). SQL Server...

GA of update policy SQL Server 2025 for #AzureSQLDatabase #ManagedInstance by Mladen Andzic #BlobStorage techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql...

How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure Data Factory instance (or Azure Synapse Pipelines) and you have a couple of linked services that point to Fabric artifacts such as a lakehouse...

How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in #AzureDataFactory for Azure Devops Deployment by Koen Verbeeck sqlkover.com/how-to-param...

Custom Agents Transform Visual Studio with Built-In and DIY Options by David Ramel #Azure visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/202...

Building AI Apps and Agents with the Full #AzureStack: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Foundry, Agents by Dave Rendon medium.com/codex/buildi...

Implementing / Migrating the BizTalk Server Aggregator Pattern to Azure Logic Apps Standard | Microsoft Community Hub While the article focuses on the migration path from BizTalk Server, the template is equally suited for new (greenfield) implementations any team looking to...

Implementing / Migrating the BizTalk Server Aggregator Pattern to Azure #LogicApps Standard by Reynaldo Montes de Oca techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-int...

ExpressRoute Gateway Microsoft initiated migration | Microsoft Community Hub Objective The backend migration process is an automated upgrade performed by Microsoft to ensure your ExpressRoute gateways use the Standard IP SKU. This...

#AzureExpressRoute Gateway Microsoft initiated migration by Mekayla Moore #PowerShell #AzurePortal #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-net...

Malware scan results now in blob tags (ADLS Gen2 HNS | Public Preview) | Microsoft Community Hub If you’ve been using Defender for Storage malware scanning with ADLS Gen2 storage accounts that have Hierarchical Namespace (HNS),...

Malware scan results now in blob tags ADLS Gen2 HNS (Public Preview) by Fernanda Vela techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

Managed Identity Support for Azure SQL Database Import & Export services (preview) | Microsoft Community Hub Today we’re announcing a public preview that lets Azure SQL Database Import & Export services authenticate...

Managed Identity Support for #AzureSQLDatabase Import & Export services (preview) by Hugo Queiroz techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql...

The End of NGINX Ingress on AKS: What You Need to Know - Trailhead Technology Partners Learn about the retiring of NGINX Ingress support coming to AKS in November 2026, what triggered it, and what your migration path looks like.

The End of NGINX Ingress on #AzureKubernetesService: What You Need to Know by Piotr Kolodziej #AzureKubernetesService #Azure trailheadtechnology.com/the-end-of-n...

Options for Migrating DevOps Toolsets Whilst presenting on ‘Migrating DevOps Toolsets’ at DDDNorth 2026 last weekend, I mentioned a blog post & flowchart I had created a few years …

Options for Migrating DevOps Toolsets by Richard Fennell #VSTS #AzureDevOps #Azure blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/rfennell/opt...

The AI job boom is here. Are you ready to showcase your skills? | Microsoft Community Hub AI isn’t just changing jobs descriptions, it’s redefining how work gets done across every industry, role, and skill level. From marketing to manufacturing,...

The AI job boom is here. Are you ready to showcase your skills? by Mark Winters #Databricks #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/the-skill...

How to get accurate azure answers in ChatGPT using MCP - AzureTechInsider Stop getting outdated Azure answers. Learn how to connect ChatGPT to the Microsoft Learn MCP server in 3 simple steps.

How to get accurate azure answers in ChatGPT using MCP by Dieter Gobeyn azuretechinsider.com/how-to-get-a...

Draft & Deploy on Azure Firewall (GA) by The Azure Updates Team #Azure azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5...

Unlocking Document Understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community Hub Enterprises today face a familiar yet formidable challenge: mountains of documents -contracts, invoices, reports, forms - remain locked in unstructured...

Unlocking document understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry by Naomi Moneypenny techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-a...

Giving Your AI Agents Reliable Skills with the Agent Skills SDK | Microsoft Community Hub AI agents are becoming increasingly capable, but they often do not have the context they need to do real work reliably. Your agent can reason well, but it...

Giving Your AI Agents Reliable Skills with the Agent Skills SDK by Pratik Panda techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...