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[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Azure Weekly Update BUILD SPECIAL is up! It's late not because of recording but because it was so long it took 3 hours to upload on Starlink 🤣

https://t.co/Ghhctv7n9H

0:00 - Introduction

01:33 - New videos

02:07 - Cobalt 200 ARM VMs – Preview

03:17 - Lasv5 and Laosv5 VM SKU - Preview

04:58 - Azure Linux 4 - Preview

05:50 - VMSS updates

05:20 - Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager – Preview

06:41 - Confidential TDX VM live migration - Preview

06:18 - ASR premium plus support – GA

07:35 - Azure Functions updates

09:08 - Logic App updates

12:28 - AKS updates

14:40 - Azure Container Apps updates

15:26 - API Management updates

19:47 - API Center updates – GA

19:10 - Azure Monitor updates

20:29 - Fabric Rayfin – Preview

22:04 - Azure HorizonDB – Preview

24:45 - Cosmos DB updates

32:51 - SQL Server in VM snapshot backup – Preview

32:26 - Azure Databricks branch – Preview

33:56 - Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search updates

36:36 - Azure AI Search new gen AI integration - GA

36:26 - Oracle to PostgreSQL schema conversion – GA

37:47 - PostgreSQL updates – Preview

38:13 - MySQL updates- GA

39:50 - MS SQL updates

40:49 - Azure DocumentDB updates – GA

41:19 - Azure Confidential Clean Room multiparty analytics - Preview

42:55 - Microsoft Execution Container (MXC)

43:40 - Agent governance with ASSERT and ACS

45:35 - Agent A2A - Preview

45:49 - Foundry guided guardrails – Preview

46:33 - Foundry tracing and evaluation updates

47:36 - Agent service voice live integration - GA

47:52 - Purview agent integrations – Preview

48:20 - Foundry Toolbox and Memory

50:59 - Publish to Teams and M365 Copilot – June GA

50:28 - Azure AI Translator updates – GA

51:27 - Azure AI Speech LLM API – GA

52:54 - Custom Avatar and Custom Video in Foundry – GA

53:30 - Content Understanding in Foundry portal – Preview

53:37 - Foundry Global PTU reservations – GA

53:11 - PII playgrounds – Preview

53:27 - Foundry VS Code extension - GA

54:47 - Alon-1.0 Instruct

54:58 - Alon-1.0 Plan

55:50 - MAI-Thinking-1

55:22 - MAI-Image-2.5 (with Flash variant)

56:33 - MAI-Transcribe-1.5

56:46 - MAI-Voice-2 (with Flash variant coming soon)

58:52 - MAI-Code-1-Flash

58:10 - Majorana 2

59:40 - MDASH

59:26 - Intelligent terminal – Preview

01:00:09 - Work IQ APIs

01:01:07 - Web IQ

01:02:00 - Microsoft Scout, the first Autopilot

01:02:32 - Event Grid MQTT v5 sub identifier - GA

01:02:45 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Tried something new and created a Microsoft AI update for month of May. Would be interested in feedback on maybe changes for future ones.

https://t.co/dAMOPXmZOt

00:00 - Introduction

00:19 - New AI videos

00:47 - Models

00:50 - Claude Opus 4.8 - Foundry, Copilot Cowork and GitHub Copilot

02:10 - GPT-5.5 Instant (GPT-chat-latest) & GPT-5.5 Thinking – Microsoft Foundry and M365 Copilot Chat

02:52 - GPT-realtime-2, GPT-realtime-translate, and GPT-realtime-whisper - Foundry

03:37 - xAI Grok 4.3 - Foundry

03:57 - DeepSeek V4, V4 Pro & Kimi 2.6 - Foundry (via Fireworks)

04:45 - Cohere Command A+ and new image models - Foundry

05:17 - MAI-Image-2-Efficient — Foundry Labs

05:54 - Microsoft Foundry

05:57 - Trace-based evaluation for external & hosted agents

06:59 - GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning - Gated GA

07:39 - Managed VNet, project cost attribution & Content Understanding - GA

08:17 - Open agentic stack from MS Research - MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara 1.5

09:11 - Foundry Local 1.1 & 1.2 plus azure-ai-projects 2.2.0 SDK

10:13 - Foundry IQ

11:00 - Copilot Studio

11:03 - Computer-using agents

11:34 - New workflow experience

12:24 - M365 Copilot

12:27 - Redesign

12:59 - Implicit Outlook grounding

13:07 - PDFs in chat

13:11 - GitHub Copilot

13:14 - Opus 4.8 & Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, GPT-5.3-Codex, auto model selection

13:34 - GitHub Copilot App – Preview

13:54 - Copilot CLI remote control – GA

14:18 - Organizational model rules - Preview

14:41 - Close

#AI #Microsoft #copilot #github

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

AI skills are a very powerful but often misunderstood capability so in this video I explore what they are, how to use them and how they work together with other capabilities like MCP. And yes, I start with how to cut down trees.

https://t.co/eCBMsvzbf4

00:00 - Introduction
00:07 - How to cut down a tree
03:57 - AI skills
07:15 - Progressive disclosure and using skills
09:44 - Looking at a skill
12:19 - Demo of using a skill
17:39 - Sequence
20:27 - Using skills in other environments
23:38 - Summary
24:41 - Close

#AISkills #MCP #AIEngineering #AzureAI #DeveloperExperience #TechEducation #TechAnalogies #AIEcosystem #SoftwareEngineering

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/OB6W8yp5oh

🧾 https://t.co/Do3FDqbu9L

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - New videos
00:28 - AKS AppInsight auto-instrumentation
00:53 - App Configuration scorecards
01:43 - Azure Functions Flex Consumption TLS cert
02:20 - TLS 1.0 and 1.1 app service retirement
03:05 - Azure Front Door WebSocket
03:35 - NSG and UDR limit updates
04:22 - Network Watcher rule impact analyzer
05:11 - GW summarized prefixes
06:04 - S2S VPN cert auth
06:20 - User group specific IP pools P2S VPN
06:45 - Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust
07:28 - Azure Storage Action mock runs
08:27 - ANF cache volumes
09:18 - ANF object REST API
09:59 - Azure Storage Mover blob-to-blob
10:21 - Azure Storage Mover schedule update
10:41 - Azure Files Entra-only identity
11:28 - Event Grid subscription identifiers
12:09 - Event Grid updates
12:39 - Cosmos DB LangChain and LangGraph integration
12:59 - SQL Server on Azure VM new regions
13:24 - Azure PostgreSQL Flex token refresh update
13:44 - Foundry role updates
14:24 - New Foundry Model Router models
15:59 - Azure Linux 4.0
16:54 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

New AI-901 Azure Fundamentals Study Cram is up!

https://t.co/G0dQ93C8Ku

00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - Study resources
02:49 - What is AI
05:30 - Assistants and agents
07:15 - Responsible AI
09:35 - Azure and Entra
13:20 - Microsoft Foundry
15:42 - Models
20:09 - Agents
21:20 - Tools and knowledge
21:36 - Looking at an agent
23:55 - Endpoints, keys and Entra auth
26:35 - App integration with Foundry
29:05 - Foundry generated code
31:04 - Custom AI app
35:56 - Generative AI
41:23 - Embeddings
43:04 - Other AI services
43:36 - Natural Language Processing
50:18 - Speech
53:49 - Computer vision
56:26 - Image and video generation
1:00:12 - Information extraction
1:03:56 - Summary
1:06:25 - Close

#Azure #MicrosoftAzure #AzureAI #AI901 #AzureAIFundamentals #MicrosoftCertifications #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #TechLearning

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's update is up! Quick update.

📽️ https://t.co/r6IKUKX877

📄 https://t.co/JXjAdexaWk

00:00 - Introduction
00:09 - New videos
01:07 - ACA Express
02:28 - AVNM rule impact analyzer
03:15 - Azure Files SMB MI support
04:21 - ANF large file support
04:42 - Azure Service Bus Premium with AZ 4 9s SLA
04:57 - Azure Service Bus Premium confidential compute
05:42 - Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
06:10 - Codename MDASH
07:18 - Grok 4.3 in Foundry
07:56 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Really quick video showing my favorite windows command ever!

winget upgrade --all --include-unknown --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent

Upgrade all the apps on your machine without any interaction! I run it once a week and I'm done. I also show how to quick find apps, get details and install using winget.

https://t.co/lnHDRA5o4x

#Windows #winget #CommandLine #CLI #Automation #DevTools #ITPro #ProductivityHacks #SoftwareUpdates #TechTips

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Every C‑level conversation I’ve had this quarter has centered on one theme: Can we trust the outputs of generative AI?
Not just the models, but the data feeding them.

In this video, I break down one of the most important (and overlooked) dimensions of AI trust:
creating a complete, virtualized view of your enterprise data estate.
I also touch on how to ensure AI solutions are fit for purpose and safe through capabilities like evaluations.

A unified data virtualization layer gives you a single, AI‑enabled interface to your data; no matter where it lives, how it’s structured, or which system owns it.
This is how organizations move from siloed insights to intelligence at enterprise scale.

🔗 Video: https://t.co/p1PScmdRdP

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - AI and the new pressure on data
04:50 - Silos of data
07:55 - Data virtualization layer
09:10 - Fabric OneLake
13:39 - Single namespace and workspaces
14:26 - Shortcuts
15:55 - Types of data
18:54 - Shortcuts outside of OneLake
20:32 - Managed transformations
21:43 - Mirroring
23:38 - Single virtualized enterprise data layer
24:40 - Governance
25:42 - Semantic models
27:47 - Intelligence for AI
28:38 - Summary

#GenerativeAI #AITrust #DataVirtualization #MicrosoftFabric #OneLake #DataStrategy #DataArchitecture #CIO #CTO

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update is up!

YouTube - https://t.co/1aRr3z02Fj

LinkedIn - https://t.co/mNS0oii8mh

00:00 - Introduction
00:09 - New videos
00:50 - Azure Functions consumption durable task scheduler
01:29 - Azure Reserved VM size retirements
02:11 - Bulk Azure Backup VM restore
02:30 - Dl D E v7 SKUs
03:21 - UK egress datacenter changes
03:51 - ACS AlternateId cleanup
04:36 - App GW for Containers add-on for AKS Automatic
05:14 - Elastic SAN AVS Gen2 private cloud
06:29 - Elastic SAN single volume snapshot
06:57 - ANF backup enabled by default
07:11 - Premium SSD v2 in 3 AZs Japan West
07:31 - Cosmos DB spherical quantization
08:03 - Cosmos DB shell
08:51 - SQL MI BC right-size memory
09:22 - GPT-chat-latest in Foundry
10:01 - Azure Document Intelligence v3 API retirement
10:11 - GPT realtime models
11:36 - Close

#Azure #MicrosoftAzure #AzureUpdate #CloudComputing #HybridCloud #DevOps #AzureAI #CloudSecurity #DigitalTransformation

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

@letsplay14me This is true 🤣

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Happy May the 4th be with you!

I even planned ahead and wore the right t‑shirt for today’s video.

In this one, we dig into how models actually behave, so we can understand context engineering, fine‑tuning, and a few other clever ways to shape and guide AI systems. If you’ve ever wondered why models respond the way they do, this will help.

https://t.co/Us9VrjFNCc

00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - Model 101
01:46 - Parameters
04:40 - Hidden layers and dimensions
05:35 - Embeddings
07:08 - Training phase
07:53 - Prompts and responses
09:12 - Changing the behavior
10:08 - Zero one and few shot
13:30 - System prompt
17:19 - RAG
20:02 - Context engineering
21:58 - Fine tuning
26:39 - LoRA
31:47 - Combination of technologies
33:47 - Close

#MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #AI #LLMs #FineTuning #ContextEngineering

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update (from Dallas hotel) is up :-) First time back in Texas for 2 years!

https://t.co/YOwIBC4qjz

#azure #microsoft

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

With all the recent quantum computing news, it’s a good time to revisit Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). What it is, why it matters, and what you should be doing now.

https://t.co/d0aKEb4tCd

00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - The problem
04:01 - PQC
07:04 - What should you do
08:14 - Stop harvest now, decrypt later
09:21 - Close

#PostQuantumCryptography #QuantumSecurity #CyberSecurity #Cryptography #ZeroTrust #Encryption #RiskManagement #DataProtection #EnterpriseSecurity

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update is up with bonus Mythos update.

https://t.co/bCBTuHo6xE

Article version - https://t.co/jI68p3pJR1

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - New videos
00:48 - Mythos Preview update
03:44 - AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement
03:59 - AKS backup via CLI
04:23 - Azure Functions v3 Linux consumption retire
04:54 - ANF user and group quota reports
05:23 - ANF ransomware protection
06:18 - Azure Elastic SAN capacity autoscaling
06:47 - AMA native OLTP ingestion
07:12 - Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled K8S OpenShift
07:37 - App Insights to Entra-integrated auth
08:00 - Azure Monitor Pipelines
09:08 - Cosmos DB DDM
09:46 - PostgreSQL Flexible Premium SSDv2
10:22 - PostgreSQL Flex vnet-int to PE
10:51 - PostgreSQL Flex logical repl status
11:06 - Fabric PostgreSQL enhanced mirroring
11:57 - PostgreSQL Flexible to Denmark East region
12:04 - Azure Arc SQL on Azure VM migration target
12:24 - Claude Opus 4.7
12:46 - OpenAI GPT 5.5
13:07 - OpenAI GPT-image-2
14:01 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Python is everywhere today. Many models write Python to perform nearly every task and it's also really useful to at least be able to read Python when you are looking at AI, automation and much more. With that in mind I created an absolute beginners guide to Python and the video description links to the files I use to demonstrate it. The video walks you through getting setup and writing your first apps.

https://t.co/ZjGKEiA9mD

00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Setup
04:50 - My sample files
06:05 - Hello world
08:02 - Executing a python script
10:48 - Breaking down the syntax
13:25 - AI help
16:08 - Variables
20:21 - F-strings
22:29 - Input and output
24:45 - Math
25:03 - Conditions
30:03 - and or
33:39 - Loops
33:52 - For
35:11 - While
38:56 - Lists
42:21 - Dictionaries
43:19 - Functions
46:26 - End project
47:50 - Summary
48:17 - Close

#python #AI

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

For workloads that leverage SFTP you can now utilize Entra ID integrated authentication to Azure Storage! No more per storage account identities. 👏

https://t.co/0GsFkgrng2

00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - Using SFTP
03:22 - Local user challenges
05:04 - Entra ID integrated auth
07:34 - Demo time
12:44 - Token lifetime
13:39 - Data plane RBAC and ABAC
15:07 - Summary
15:43 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #entraid #azurestorage

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/zLCV5vDQZY
📄 https://t.co/QfjE7g3HuV

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - New videos
00:47 - AKS CNI Overlay CIDR expansion
01:48 - Azure Function MCP resource trigger
02:52 - AKS disable HTTP proxy
03:31 - AKS observability improvements
04:11 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift NVIDIA GPU support
04:43 - Azure Network Watcher rule impact analysis
05:15 - Azure Service Bus NSP support
05:58 - Azure Migrate Azure Files assessment
06:32 - PostgreSQL maintenance notification update
06:58 - PgBouncer 1.25.1 support
07:34 - MAI new models
08:15 - Grok 4.2
08:39 - Foundry Local
09:30 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Cosmos DB is amazingly powerful but if you don't architect correctly or don't understand how you will interact with the data you can easily end up with a non optimal and therefore expensive deployment. In this video I walk through some of the key SKUs, when to use them and then how to optimize your data model.

https://t.co/Aj1eTzUCi2

00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - Service options and structure
01:48 - Request Units (RUs)
04:07 - Free SKU
05:26 - Provisioned
06:06 - Manual
11:13 - Autoscale
16:58 - Configuration
23:03 - Account throughput limit
25:34 - Partitions
30:34 - What should I use
35:48 - Bookmark
36:26 - Optimizing design
37:52 - Optimize the RU use
39:45 - Importance of partition key
44:13 - High cardinality
45:57 - Document size
49:21 - Global secondary index
54:00 - Storage heavy
56:50 - Write heavy
58:47 - Summary
59:29 - Close

#cosmosdb #database #microsoft

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update (3rd April 2026) is up.

📺 https://t.co/fzk1XFHrEs

📄 https://t.co/9kwNe5qh9G

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - New videos
02:05 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions
02:32 - VM and VMSS full ephemeral OS disk caching
04:13 - App Config AFD integration
05:34 - Premium SSDv2 new region
06:16 - User delegation SAS for table file and queue
07:00 - Azure Data Box to Files Provisioned v2
07:49 - ANF cool access enhancements
08:26 - Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement
09:11 - Event Grid updates
10:48 - Copilot Cowork
11:39 - Azure Speech Neural HD 2.5
12:18 - Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B model
13:37 - Close

#azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

@manelrodero Already exists (but has more on it). https://t.co/H9e9TjcISm

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

One thing I keep hearing is people are not sure of where to start with AI, what to learn around the Microsoft ecosystem with copilots, agents, IQ etc. I've done a lot of videos recently but wanted to create a little bit of a clearer path for those who need a bit more order.

I also created https://t.co/p6AgVGSFPG if you want an interface for the curated AI path. No adverts, no fluff, no sponsors. Just an easy experience to utilize.

The key content:

AI for Anyone - 30 Minute Introduction to AI — https://t.co/TviaLnrlSm
RAG, Semantic Search and More — https://t.co/cAJtxndwfW

Getting Started with M365 Copilot — https://t.co/5FvrEu4Pip
Copilot Cowork Overview — https://t.co/0X5sWw0lge
Picking Your Agent Builder Solution — https://t.co/BwCoIni5Wg
Agent 365 Overview — https://t.co/9aDZ33NwDG

Microsoft IQ Overview — https://t.co/PnAfkNy0E8
Work IQ Overview — https://t.co/nKn2bXDhb4
Foundry IQ Overview — https://t.co/cGokdyzjPs
Fabric IQ Overview — https://t.co/GcsE8m0A0H

Getting Started with GitHub Copilot CLI and Work IQ — https://t.co/p3fWe7gwL3
Choosing Your First AI Application — https://t.co/wJiNyRtwkP
MCP or A2A — https://t.co/EmbFmUaCuA
What is Agentic AI — https://t.co/jTm91DK1Tw
Generative AI Security Top Considerations — https://t.co/8uHf5Sa27k

#ai #artificialintelligence #copilot #m365copilot #copilotstudio #microsoftfoundry #microsoft