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. youtu.be/9fYTmTMo4Dw #AgenticAI #AIAgents #AgentOrchestration #AIInfrastructure #ControlPlane #AIArchitecture

This week's pretty quick update is up! youtu.be/va1TiwLhBq8 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

New Tech in Five focusing on answering "What is Computer Use?" youtu.be/pwsUd72-58U #NewTechInFive #ComputerUse #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation

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. youtu.be/YSFSR8d58Bk 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

This week's Azure update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/65a5WX2SGEU 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 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

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. youtu.be/Ypzjqzoh6KY 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

This week's update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/yluw5tkRdbE 🧾 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 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

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! youtu.be/43ZJtGpCYbU 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

This week's update is up (25th September 2026). 📽️ youtu.be/uaUoqTKHKM8 🧾 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 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

New video based on a lot of my customer meetings and Microsoft's own journey transforming with AI on how to succeed with AI. youtu.be/uZXLN2Nx94w 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

This week's Azure update is up (18th September 2026). 📽️ youtu.be/I8RSgmRlNMg 🧾 lnkd.in/p/gd5YZUER 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

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 📽️ youtu.be/C6CkxsjjEas 🧾 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

This month's (August 2026) Microsoft AI Update is up! youtu.be/-lv1ktRRDfo 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

This week's Azure update is up. 📽️ youtu.be/HxalS8yjSyk 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-wee… 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

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: youtu.be/KJzAfLRf8oc #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIHallucinations #ResponsibleAI #PromptEngineering #TechInFive

AMA starting now! youtube.com/live/hXRPm7r4Q14

With Azure Linux 4.0 Microsoft ❤️ Linux even more! In this video I look at what's new and where we can use it. youtu.be/_9C1d4PZ2Lc ALSO don't forget today's AMA at 10:00 AM PST, hope to see you there - youtube.com/live/hXRPm7r4Q14… 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

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. youtu.be/hYjgSu-77pA 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

21st August 2026 Azure Update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/OLfRPH319IQ 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/21st-augu… 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

New Tech in Five, What is a Harness! Learn why we have it and how it can be even more important than the model when it comes to capability. youtu.be/HVF9I25WyVY 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - How AI models DON'T work 00:48 - Models have no native memory 01:11 - What the harness does 02:30 - An example of harness and AI model interaction 03:33 - How models generate tokens 04:43 - Model plus harness is key 05:20 - Close #ai #artificalintelligence #llm #harness