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2026 68

  1. SharePoint Agents are changing what customers need to know for preparation
  2. SharePoint Is Becoming the Knowledge Platform for Copilot
  3. OneDrive Username Enumeration: What Security Teams Should Know
  4. AI-Assisted Authoring: How Copilot, Canvas Apps Authoring MCP, and Playwright MCP Worked Together
  5. MC1387573 Explained What Microsoft Teams Administrators Need to Know About Built-In Agent Governance
  6. Azure Content Understanding
  7. Open-Weight Models in Microsoft Foundry
  8. Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric?
  9. Microsoft Foundry, Azure Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric?
  10. Microsoft 365 Copilot Brand Kits: Making On-Brand Content Easier to Create
  11. Build a Tenant-Wide Microsoft Foundry Model Operations Dashboard
  12. Understand your Azure backup estate, from protection flow to reviewed change
  13. Fabric and Databricks Together
  14. FinOps for Data and AI Workloads
  15. Governance Boundaries in Microsoft Foundry
  16. Identity at Every Hop
  17. From Teams Admin Center to Pro Management Portal: The Readiness Checks That Actually Matter
  18. Tokenomics: the four levers that decide your Azure OpenAI bill
  19. MCP Servers Explained — Part 2: Deploy to Azure, Connect Copilot Studio, and Secure It
  20. MCP Servers Explained — Part 1: Understand and Build Your First One
  21. Find the workload’s bottleneck, not just a busy resource
  22. What changed, who changed it, and what evidence should you preserve?
  23. Are your Azure alerts reaching the right people? Inside Azure Support Agent's Alerts Manager
  24. Prepare for Retirement of Classic Publishing Sites and Pages in SharePoint Online
  25. Managing SharePoint Online Version History at Scale to Recover Storage
  26. AI Just Joined Your Code Reviews: GitHub Copilot Comes to Azure Repos
  27. The new sharing experience is coming to SharePoint Online: What admins need to know
  28. Your on-call rotation has a new member: 10 production incidents, end to end, with Azure SRE Agent
  29. Stop paying for idle VMs — safely: ringed start/stop waves for your Azure estate
  30. Navigating the Azure Databricks CSP Mandate
  31. Building an AI Azure Ops Workbench — Part 3: Reverse engineer Azure Architecture Diagrams
  32. Building Resilient Power Automate Flows That Stay Running
  33. Microsoft Foundry Models: A Field Guide for Cloud Solution Architects
  34. Building an AI Azure Ops Workbench — Part 2: The War Room — watch AI root-cause a 5xx in 90 seconds
  35. Proactive Resiliency with Azure App Service Auto Heal
  36. Azure Support Agent — Part 1: Building an AI Azure Ops Workbench
  37. Kernels Behind the Wall: Custom Python 3.10-3.14 Jupyter Kernels for Air-Gapped Azure ML
  38. From Downtime Risk to Enterprise Resilience: SAP NetWeaver Java HA Journey with SUSE
  39. Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 3)
  40. Power Platform tenant inventory — a community showcase of the API-first management surface
  41. Archiving Years of Dataverse Audit History Before You Prune It — A Pragmatic, Open Source Pattern
  42. Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 2)
  43. Azure OpenAI Architecture: The Decisions That Actually Matter (Part 1)
  44. Enabling AI-Driven SAP Development with GitHub Copilot: Plans and Usage-Based Billing Transformation
  45. Databricks Lakebase: The operational database for AI agents and apps
  46. Service Principals in Microsoft Power Platform
  47. The Journey of Copilot: From Setup to Mastery for Azure SAP customers
  48. VDI, Teams, and what’s changing in 2026: VBSS becomes VMSS, and eCDN lands in the core license
  49. Enterprise Security Assessment: A Strategic Lens for Mission Critical Environments
  50. SharePoint Automatic Version History Cleanup (Intelligent Versioning)
  51. Breaking the Shackles of Legacy Portals: Power Pages as Enterprise SaaS
  52. LTRDisplay Control - End-to-End Implementation and Usage Guide
  53. Getting Started with GitHub Copilot SDK
  54. Migrating Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines to Fabric Data Factory
  55. Chaos Engineering vs. STAF for SAP: Resilience Validation vs. Functional Assurance
  56. Legacy SharePoint Authentication (IDCRL) Is Retiring — What to Do Before May 1, 2026
  57. SharePoint and OneDrive Site User ID Mismatch Explored
  58. Finding and Remediating EWS App Usage Before Retirement
  59. Azure SRE Agent Architecture and Creation: Practical Benefits for SAP on Azure Customers
  60. Accelerating AKS Upgrades with Fleet Manager: Finding the Right Balance
  61. Create an Organizational Assets Library (including Multi-Geo & Information Barriers guidance)
  62. Large Mailbox Migration to Exchange Online
  63. Automating Azure OpenAI/Foundry Model Lifecycle Management
  64. Hardening Spring Boot Health Probes on AKS: How to Prevent Restart Storms Before They Start
  65. Conditional Access for Canvas Apps with Entra
  66. Microsoft Sentinel and Dataverse Integration
  67. SAP RISE & HANA Data Migration: AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage via Azure Storage Mover
  68. Comparing Open-Source vs Closed LLMs for Enterprise Apps

2025 30

  1. Migration from SAP ERP On-Premises to SAP S/4HANA in Microsoft Azure
  2. Preparing for Azure PostgreSQL Certificate Authority Rotation: A Comprehensive Operational Guide
  3. In-App Notification PCF Control
  4. Optimizing Exchange Online PowerShell
  5. Navigating Microsoft's Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry
  6. Azure AI Foundry vs. Azure Databricks – A Unified Approach to Enterprise Intelligence
  7. When Your CRM Plays Hide-and-Seek: The Mystery of Missing Columns in Dynamics 365
  8. MSL correction from clone to multistate HANA DB Cluster SUSE activation
  9. Diagnose performance issues in Spark jobs through Spark UI.
  10. SharePoint NoAccess Sites: Search Indexing and Copilot Misconceptions Guide
  11. Avoiding Access Errors with SharePoint App-Only Access
  12. Reducing SQL Connection Latency for Apps Using Azure AAD Authentication
  13. Building a Custom Continuous Export Pipeline for Azure Application Insights
  14. Demystifying SessionTrackingId and Request Correlation in D365 CE Integrations
  15. Gen1 to Gen2 Azure VM Upgrade in Rolling Fashion
  16. Deep dive into Pacemaker cluster for Azure SAP systems optimization
  17. 🚀 Export D365 CE Dataverse Org Data to Cosmos DB via the Office365 Management Activity API
  18. 🚀 Scaling Dynamics 365 CRM Integrations in Azure: The Right Way to Use the SDK ServiceClient
  19. Seamless blend of ILogger with ITracingService inside D365 CE Plugins
  20. Token Cache Service Inside D365 CE Plugin Base
  21. A Deep Dive into Spark UI for Job Optimization
  22. The Double-Edged Sword of Dynamic SQL: Anti-Patterns, Threats, and Solutions
  23. Scaling PostgreSQL Connections in Azure: A Deep Dive into Multi-PgBouncer Architectures
  24. Run any version of PNP without Installation
  25. Application Gateway for Containers – A New Way to Ingress into AKS
  26. A Practical Guide to Implement End-to-End Data Warehousing PoC Using Microsoft Fabric-Part 3
  27. Nginx Ingress controller integration with Istio Service Mesh
  28. Azure Databricks - Best Practices for Using Spot Instances in Cluster Scaling
  29. [Story from The field] How to monitor vNet subnet IP usage
  30. Istio Service Mesh Observability in AKS

2024 3

  1. A Practical Guide to Implement End-to-End Data Warehousing PoC Using Microsoft Fabric-Part2
  2. A Practical Guide to Implement End-to-End Data Warehousing PoC Using Microsoft Fabric-Part1
  3. A Quick Introduction to Microsoft's Support for Mission Critical Offering