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[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure Update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/lDK0F6BcNK

📄 https://t.co/ZYimmAFuy6

00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - New videos
00:50 - Traffic Manager Azure DNS integration
01:47 - App GW keyless TLS with AKV managed HSM
02:13 - AFD WAF service tag matching
02:53 - Disable vnet peering route
04:03 - Azure Backup VM item-level recovery
04:40 - Azure Databricks private network gateway
05:40 - Azure Monitor workspace usage insights
05:57 - Azure Monitor advanced platform metrics
06:25 - Cosmos DB safe key rotation
06:47 - ADLS ABFS vectored read
07:54 - Sovereign updates
10:00 - Project Perception updates
12:36 - Entra CYOT
13:05 - OpenAI Decisions API
14:10 - Copilot Studio agent ID
14:35 - Close

#azure #microsoft

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Had a lot of conversations recently about agentic control planes and seen a lot of confusion so wanted to quickly provide an overview of what an agent control plane is (and what it isn't)! Hint - it's not a user interface and it's something we're actually used to elsewhere.

https://t.co/449IkzbIg2

#AgenticAI #AIAgents #AgentOrchestration #AIInfrastructure #ControlPlane #AIArchitecture

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's pretty quick update is up!

https://t.co/nzzOfx9zbq

00:00 - Intro
00:17 - New videos
01:07 - ASR Arc support for VMware and physical servers
01:45 - VMSS rebalancing
02:43 - Standard Service Endpoints
04:28 - Cross-region Azure Files replication
05:12 - Azure Cloud HSM hardware audit logging
05:45 - MAI-Base-2 foundation model
06:31 - Maia 300 inferencing chip
07:01 - Close

#azure #microsoft

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

New Tech in Five focusing on answering "What is Computer Use?"

https://t.co/T3Xn7vvxUk

#NewTechInFive #ComputerUse #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

After using the new Copilot "Super App" for a couple of weeks and reading a lot of the blogs around it I wanted to share what I've found both about the app itself and what it means for organizations wanting to bring the right level of AI based on the task and outcome to their employees.

https://t.co/0AzzDs1Dcr

00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Pace of AI change and possibilities
02:34 - Home
03:40 - Enterprise knowledge
05:59 - Chat
10:24 - Plugins
12:48 - Notebooks
14:00 - User Seat License billing
16:15 - Cowork
18:04 - User Based Billing consumption
19:31 - FinOps
22:08 - Chat or Cowork
23:22 - Intent routing
24:45 - Code
28:19 - Autopilot
29:56 - Summary
32:10 - Close

#MicrosoftCopilot #Microsoft365Copilot #EnterpriseAI #FutureOfWork #AIAgents #FinOps

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/Z21GSAU2sc

📄 https://t.co/eiWH7s8Qfv

00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - New videos
00:49 - AKS bare metal on Ubuntu
01:43 - AKS Anyscale
02:23 - AKS NAT GW standardv2 default
03:00 - App Service Java 8,11 and 17 retirement
03:12 - ADE retirement
04:18 - Microsoft Dev Box retirement
04:52 - App GW WAF IPv6
05:20 - WAF exceptions
06:44 - API-M A365 integration
08:54 - PostgreSQL flexible in East US 3
09:06 - PostgreSQL Elastic major version upgrades
09:52 - Enabling the Bulk admin role for SQL Server on Linux
10:25 - PostgreSQL flexible & elastic Azure Backup support v2
11:39 - OneLake catalog table discovery
12:20 - SQL Server on Azure VM in Azure Bleu
12:41 - Azure HorizonDB additional regions
13:17 - Azure SQL DB always encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves retirement
13:41 - MAI Code 1.1 Flash local
15:56 - Close

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This month's AI update is up (September 2026). Lots of great updates across the Microsoft ecosystem with a little bit of a deeper dive on the new Copilot app.

https://t.co/CnB6zCReiw

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - New videos
01:18 - Fable 5.1
02:26 - GPT-6 Astra
03:16 - Gemini 3.8 Flash
03:36 - SpaceXAI Grok
04:09 - OpenAI GPT-6 & 6.1 Sol and Luna
05:25 - Opus and Sonnet 5.5
05:48 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry
06:13 - MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry
06:39 - Jev
08:20 - Model Router updates
09:21 - Foundry Dev Pack
09:40 - Voice agents
11:03 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams
11:43 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls
12:23 - Foundry routines
12:55 - Foundry A2A v1.0
13:17 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls
13:31 - Natural language app building
14:01 - Copilot Managed Runtime
14:54 - Copilot App update
17:04 - Cowork edit in place
17:26 - Fabric IQ in Copilot
18:42 - PowerPoint Brand Kit and Skills
19:04 - Unified plugin registry
19:33 - Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive
19:45 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion
20:27 - Enterprise managed permissions for agent operations
20:48 - VS Code agent merge
21:03 - Teams and Slack integration update
21:27 - Cost and quality tiers in auto model selection
22:00 - Budget increase request flow
22:28 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP
22:54 - SQL agent skills
23:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors
23:57 - ACA Sandboxes
24:41 - Close

#MicrosoftAI #MicrosoftCopilot #AzureAI #AIAgents #GenerativeAI

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/NLJkqoXUCc

🧾 https://t.co/OE5zDQ1Qjd

00:00 - Introduction
00:14 - New videos
01:27 - Azure IoT Central retirement
01:57 - Microsoft HPC Pack retirement
02:32 - VMSS automatic zone placement
03:18 - Lasv5 and Laosv5
04:23 - D[s]v3, E[s]v3, DC[d]sv3, NVv3/4 retirement
04:49 - ACA Function v1 hosting retirement
05:07 - AKS Ubuntu 26.04
05:26 - Elastic SAN Azure Backup support
06:02 - Azure NetApp Files SMB Entra Kerberos support
06:27 - ANF cool access
07:06 - ANF large volume breakthrough mode
07:37 - HorizonDB PostgreSQL 18
07:57 - PostgreSQL LTRv2
08:58 - PostgreSQL x-tenant CMK
09:37 - PostgreSQL Ultra Disk
09:55 - MySQL reader endpoint
10:23 - Azure SQL general updates
13:51 - Azure SQL Dev Hub
14:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors
15:16 - Azure SQL DB Hyperscale Serverless auto pause/resume
15:52 - SQL agent skills
16:23 - Azure Arc to Azure migration
17:27 - SQL Formatter
17:49 - SQL Server on Azure Local
18:37 - SQL on Azure Linux VM deployment update
18:59 - Azure Extended Zones Luxembourg
19:28 - GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 available
20:41 - Close

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

New video covering the new ACA sandboxes which provide an isolated, secure and egress controlled platform to host your agents on when you need to self-orchestrate. This is the same platform Microsoft use for most of their agent hosting!

https://t.co/C4wpNo9v4s

00:00 - Introduction
00:08 - MicroVM for container agents
03:11 - Egress proxy
05:02 - Lifecycle
08:34 - Pricing
09:27 - ACA Sandbox Group
15:00 - Managing sandbox instances
16:31 - Egress rules
20:23 - Logging
22:02 - When to use
23:46 - Summary
24:14 - Close

#Azure #AzureContainerApps #AIAgents #AgenticAI #CloudSecurity

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's update is up (25th September 2026).

📽️ https://t.co/pVZpKJ3xQp

🧾 https://t.co/iHLlXiCeaq

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - New videos
00:34 - Mdsv4 and Msv4 VMs
00:53 - Functions PowerShell 7.6 support
01:03 - AKS Flex Nodes
01:54 - Function Node.js 22 retirement
02:06 - ACA Express
02:55 - ACA Sandboxes
04:21 - VM RP instant access
04:36 - PostgreSQL 18 support for PostgreSQL elastic clusters
04:57 - New PostgreSQL troubleshooting guides
05:21 - PostgreSQL logical replication slot sync status
05:36 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams
06:20 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls
07:03 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls
07:16 - Foundry routines
07:51 - Azure App GitHub Copilot guided experience
08:24 - Opus 5.5 in Foundry, GHCP, Cowork
08:39 - OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and Luna in Foundry and GHCP
09:21 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry
09:42 - Copilot App update
10:35 - ACS retirement
10:53 - Close

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

New video based on a lot of my customer meetings and Microsoft's own journey transforming with AI on how to succeed with AI.

https://t.co/sv4O00FI1U

00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - AI adoption
01:32 - Where can AI drive benefit
08:49 - What makes a good AI initiative
17:47 - Human and AI
18:44 - Where do we get stuck
22:21 - Rethinking our organization
23:11 - Intelligence and trust
23:39 - Intelligence
28:19 - Trust
35:52 - Models
38:44 - Amplifying the human
39:07 - Bad actors using AI
40:00 - Summary
41:01 - Close

#AITransformation #AIAdoption #AIStrategy #ResponsibleAI #MicrosoftAI

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure update is up (18th September 2026).

📽️ https://t.co/r3laGMefZe
🧾 https://t.co/YsKjKXEDli

00:20 - AKS Azure Linux with OS Guard retirement
01:09 - Azure Red Hat OpenShift hosted control planes
02:12 - Azure App Gateway HTTP/3 over QUIC
02:35 - AVNM high-scale mesh
03:16 - Agentless SMB storage migration
03:52 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP
04:28 - Azure SQL DB logical server soft delete
04:57 - AVD new endpoints for the Windows App
05:22 - Azure Payments HSM v2

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure update is up!

00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - New videos
00:34 - VM ephemeral OS disk full caching
01:43 - Azure Functions Flex Consumption custom TLS
02:09 - User-bound user delegation SAS
02:52 - AZD extension framework
03:35 - ALD playwright workspace new regions
04:00 - Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent
04:24 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion
05:21 - Close

📽️ https://t.co/RGY2SIlC5s

🧾 https://t.co/wkDD4wg7S9

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This month's (August 2026) Microsoft AI Update is up!

https://t.co/tvcAWNSJL4

00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - New videos
01:06 - MAI-Code-1.1-Flash
01:36 - MAI-Image-2.6
01:52 - MAI-Thinking-1
02:22 - MAI-Transcribe-2
02:46 - Gemini 3.7 Flash
02:59 - Kimi K3
03:07 - DeepSeek-v4-Flash-0731 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
03:55 - Grok 4.6
04:14 - Fable 5.1
05:21 - GPT-6 Astra
05:53 - Model router updates
06:36 - Content understanding update
07:11 - Hosted on Azure Claude updates
08:20 - GitHub Copilot harness use
09:26 - SharePoint authoritative sites
10:07 - Cowork customizable effort
10:19 - Better /cost
10:28 - Automations
10:35 - Chat response selection as context
10:51 - Copilot Notebook updates
11:08 - App updates
12:21 - Scout in preview
12:40 - Code review effort levels and expanded scope
13:24 - Cloud agent reasoning effort
13:35 - Enterprise MCP control
13:53 - Global model enablement policy
14:14 - Trigger Copilot automations for comments
14:40 - App and CLI session updates
14:58 - Reporting updates
16:09 - Azure Copilot agent access
16:38 - Close

#microsoft #AI #artificalintelligence #copilot #m365 #microsoftfoundry #foundry #copilotstudio #github

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

This week's Azure update is up.

📽️ https://t.co/wIpypKJzOU

📄 https://t.co/JSGtrvq7hu

00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - New videos
00:53 - Charity event
01:22 - Azure VM Image Builder availability
01:42 - Per-disk resiliency
02:20 - AKS Linux confidential VMs
02:41 - AKS artifact streaming
03:13 - AKS Windows Server 2025 support
03:20 - ACA Defender for Cloud
03:40 - ASR Linux NVMe support
03:59 - Multicloud interconnect
05:08 - Az Firewall SNAT route learn
05:58 - AFD WAF profile and route level WAF policy association
06:42 - AVNM IPAM sov clouds
07:00 - AKS CSI Files driver workload identity
07:39 - Azure Monitor Logs auxiliary table standard Azure table support
08:19 - Monitor Logs auxiliary now in sovereign clouds
08:25 - Copilot observability agent new log type support
08:49 - MySQL reader endpoint
09:05 - Microsoft Marketplace purchase order mapping
09:17 - Fable 5.1
10:27 - GPT-6 Astra in Foundry
10:59 - MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry
11:30 - Close

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

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

Why does AI hallucinate?

In this new episode of Tech in Five, I break down what is actually happening when an AI model generates a response, how token prediction works, and why hallucinations occur.

More importantly, I cover practical ways to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability in real-world AI solutions.

Watch here:
https://t.co/J38t6Q03P2

#ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIHallucinations #ResponsibleAI #PromptEngineering #TechInFive

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

AMA starting now!

https://t.co/0TkrNtiqNh

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

With Azure Linux 4.0 Microsoft ❤️ Linux even more! In this video I look at what's new and where we can use it.

https://t.co/n5UuLMvMIV

ALSO don't forget today's AMA at 10:00 AM PST, hope to see you there - https://t.co/VDaul3V0AA

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - History
02:42 - Why Azure Linux?
05:28 - Architecture
08:24 - Where can be used
09:01 - Lifecycle
09:19 - Looking at Azure Linux
11:41 - Using with WSL
13:10 - Azure Container Host
16:03 - Summary
16:40 - Close

#microsoft #azure #linux

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

AI can transform business processes, accelerate productivity, enable new outcomes but malicious actors can also benefit and utilize AI to attack with new speed, scale and sophistication. We need AI to protect and defeat AI attacks. In this video I explore Project Perception to utilize families of agent to provide end-to-end security.

https://t.co/1QYxFHA64g

00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - Cybersecurity evolution
02:50 - MDASH
04:14 - Perception
05:19 - Agents
07:11 - Red
08:23 - Blue
09:55 - Green
10:38 - Working together
11:10 - Using Perception
16:41 - Playbooks
18:37 - Perception in action
25:20 - Perception everywhere
26:34 - Security Copilot?
27:51 - Summary
28:51 - Close

#AI #CyberSecurity #AgenticAI #AISecurity #MicrosoftSecurity #ProjectPerception #SecurityAgents #MicrosoftAI

[John Savill @NTFAQGuy]

21st August 2026 Azure Update is up!

📽️ https://t.co/CLMgDwcZyJ

📄 https://t.co/i6RZhHkWmF

00:00 - Introduction
00:11 - New videos
00:51 - App Service Managed Instance
01:20 - AVS license
01:36 - ASR BYON
02:03 - VM vCore customization
03:41 - Summarized advertisement gateway prefix
04:15 - Az FW IPv6 support
04:43 - VS Code MSSQL extension SQL DB provisioning
05:17 - MSSQL shortcut configuration
05:42 - SQL Formatter in MSSQL extension
06:00 - SQL MI zone redundancy
06:20 - Azure Databricks Lakebase new regions
06:55 - Azure Linux in WSL
07:47 - DeepSeek-v4-Flash-0731 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in Foundry
08:47 - Azure Copilot agent access
09:19 - SharePoint authoritative sites
10:05 - Close

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