John Savill

This week's Azure Update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/jkpcFAYJjvM 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - New videos 01:13 - AMA next week 01:29 - AKS Flatcar Container Linux retire 02:03 - Azure Batch VM SKU and image retirements 03:11 - AVS AC30P and AV52 node retirements 03:29 - HC, HBv2 and NP VM SKU retirement 03:41 - Azure RedHat OpenShift MI support 04:07 - WAF DRS 2.2 04:43 - Entra ID blob SFTP access 05:18 - Standard HDD retirement 05:39 - Azure Databricks Lakeflow Connect Free tier 06:36 - Azure Databricks to Fabric federation 07:43 - Fabric mirroring and shortcut updates 08:58 - Fabric IQ updates 10:28 - Azure SQL DB versionless TDE 11:05 - SQL Server VS Code updates 11:45 - Foundry Agent Service 12:44 - Foundry Observability 13:59 - NVIDIA Nemotron models 14:15 - Foundry Local updates 14:44 - OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini and nano 15:23 - Entra Backup and Recovery 16:15 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video using Work IQ (all the M365 knowledge including artifacts and how you work) with GitHub Copilot CLI for absolute beginners! Follow along to get a working AI-powered CLI up and running with full access to your work context! youtu.be/tQlNq8bH674 #AI #Github #CLI #Copilot #WorkIQ

Next AMA will be 24th of March at 8:00 AM PST. If you want to pre-ask a question please post to linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…. See you there! youtube.com/live/-agWE4TNP…

Created an "AI for Anyone" 30-minute introduction video around generative AI. What it is, key parts that make it work and how to interact. youtu.be/O3F0AVd0nSc 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - Human brains 04:27 - Neural networks 06:34 - Training and parameters 09:57 - Using a generative model 11:54 - Orchestrators and assistants 14:22 - Tokens 16:49 - Prompting AI 18:59 - Memory and state 21:20 - Adding knowledge with RAG 28:01 - Hallucinations 28:55 - Be careful of what is shared with public AI 30:26 - Prompt engineering 32:17 - Ways to interact 33:07 - How to think of AI today 34:48 - Close #AI

This week's Azure Update is up on this glorious Friday the 13th! Be safe out there!! 📽️ youtu.be/17uHDPjdkto 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

This week's Azure Update is up! YouTube - youtu.be/VuXRLdt5dIc LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:09 - New videos 00:46 - DCe and ECe v6 confidential VMs 02:08 - Azure Firewall Draft and Deploy 02:47 - Azure Databricks workspace network config update 03:25 - Azure Databricks Lakebase 04:08 - Grok 4.0 04:20 - Qwen3.5 medium model series 04:35 - OpenAI GPT-5.3 Chat in Foundry 05:15 - OpenAI GPT-5.4 in Foundry and GHCP 06:12 - Model use and integration 07:41 - Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision 08:20 - Azure Arc Gateway 09:21 - Azure Policy faster enforcement 09:42 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Really quick video as you, or someone you know likely will get hit with the fake malware on your machine, "click here or call to fix" that if you interact can install real malware or tries to extort you. It's a 30 second fix by just removing the bad site from your browsers allowed notification list. youtu.be/8kdV9rjFRtg Be safe out there!

Really quick video as you, or someone you know likely will get hit with the fake malware on your machine, "click here or call to fix" that if you interact can install real malware or tries to extort you. It's a 30 second fix by just removing the bad site from your browsers allowed notification list. youtu.be/8kdV9rjFRtg Be safe out there!

Wanted to share some of the initial interactions you should try with M365 Copilot including basic prompts, scheduling prompts, analyst, researcher and creating your very own first agent! Prompt along with me. AI and M365 Copilot in your work is powerful thought partner. I use it to help and be a sounding board for my ideas. All prompts are in the video description but some of the prompts: 💻 Hey Copilot, help me plan my day, including summary of scheduled meetings, outstanding tasks, and important messages (email/chat) that came in overnight. 💻 Goal: Conduct a detailed research analysis on the potential to build a Justice League base on Mars. Context: The justice league are the foremost super heroes primarily protecting the people of Earth but also must consider off world threats. 💻 Create a daily news brief based on trending industry and legislative news relevant to the technology business. Prioritize news where Microsoft or our partners are mentioned. 💻 I vaguely remember someone mentioning a sluggish film about boats and how things move around the world in a meeting. Which meeting was it? 💻 I'm facing a difficult decision around 3 possible options. I want you to interview me, asking one question at a time to gather all information needed to make a recommendation. I want you to stress test my thinking and challenge my thoughts and ensure I'm not only seeing upsides. Point out downsides and also consequences. 💻 Hey Copilot, I would love your help and a conultation with you to help me figure out where I can best leverage AI in my work. As an AI expert, would you please ask me questions—one question at a time until you have enough context about my work, e.g., (my responsibilities, my OKR's and KPI's) that you would make two obvious recommendations and two non-obvious recommendations for how I could leverage AI in my work. Happy prompting! youtu.be/WiNcWsyENU4 #ai #microsoft #m365copilot #copilot

This week's Azure Update is up. YouTube - youtu.be/Tnq0SmW5TPY LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:54 - AKS Windows Server Annual Channel retire 01:18 - App GW WAF Insights 02:07 - Prem SSDv2 new availability 03:05 - Blob user delegated SAS to Entra ID 04:08 - Azure AI Search sensitivity label support 05:33 - PostgreSQL Prem SSDv2 geo backup 06:05 - MS SQL VS Code extension updates 07:08 - New OpenAI models in Foundry 07:54 - Azure Monitor pipeline updates 08:56 - GitHub Copilot CLI #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video diving into ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway SKU. ⭐ Autoscaling of capacity between min and max scale units you specify ⭐ Up to 40 Gbps throughput (up from current 10 Gbps max) ⭐ Zone-redundant even at minimum scale units ⭐ Easy to migrate from current zone-redundant fixed SKUs youtu.be/2OVNx2quVP0 #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #networking #expressroute

New video diving into Agent 365 and Agent ID. youtu.be/hEBf8D8xn-s 00:00 - Introduction 00:16 - Challenges with agents today 01:55 - Key agent needs 02:59 - Employee needs 03:27 - Identity and Entra 06:12 - Data and Purview 07:28 - Threat protection and Defender 08:04 - Productive with M365 08:48 - Agents and types 11:12 - Why a new type of identity is needed 12:38 - Agent ID 13:21 - Science bit 13:41 - Blueprints 18:05 - Consent and blueprint service principals 20:04 - Creating Agent IDs 21:06 - Sponsors, owners and managers 21:55 - Often done for you 22:27 - Any agent platform can use Agent ID 22:47 - Agent User 26:07 - How authentication works 29:39 - Entra for agents 35:54 - Purview for agents 37:41 - Defender for agents 39:40 - A365 for productivity and Work IQ 40:47 - Registry 44:52 - Collections 46:17 - Summary 47:37 - Close #microsoft #ai #entraid

Azure update is up! youtu.be/4EVWtkjKTkI LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - New videos 00:53 - Prem SSDv2 and Ultra instance snapshot access 02:06 - AKS auto-provision encryption-at-host and LocalDNS 03:36 - Node autoprovision in gov and private cloud 03:49 - AKS MCP Server 04:47 - AKS agentic CLI 05:22 - Azure Functions Flex Consumption tools 06:02 - Azure Functions .NET 10 support 06:34 - Claude Sonnet 4.6 availability 07:58 - Agent Monitoring Dashboard 09:13 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

In this video I look at various aspects of sovereignty related to using Azure including regions, Azure Local and even disconnected. youtu.be/Q6Anv-8a-I0 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - Sovereignty consideration layers 01:33 - Legal and jurisdictional 04:49 - Cloud environments 06:47 - Entra and identity 10:19 - Azure cloud 11:55 - Regions 15:52 - Data sovereignty by region 16:45 - Data encryption and external key management 18:25 - Azure compliance 19:36 - Options outside of regions 20:24 - Azure Local 22:09 - Types of node and cluster 23:20 - Services 23:55 - Azure control plane with Arc 26:19 - Azure Local Disconnected 30:26 - Centralized disconnected control plane 32:08 - M365 Local 33:09 - Summary 34:09 - Close #azure #azurecloud #microsoft #sovereignty #azurelocal

This week's extra careful weekly Azure Update is up! youtu.be/gFh0kpFrND8 LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:13 - New videos 01:55 - Azure Monitor pipelines 03:13 - Azure Disk vaulted backups 04:18 - AKS App GW for Containers add-on 05:00 - AKS K8S 1.34 support 05:33 - AFD Premium with PL origin in UAE North 06:16 - Claude Opus 4.6 on Azure Databricks 06:59 - Azure Databricks Supervisor Agent 07:48 - Azure SQL DB 1-4 secondaries 08:31 - New Thailand South region 09:10 - Kimi-K2.5 in Foundry 09:48 - Entra SoA user change 10:32 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

New video on Fabric IQ (and there is a short as well). When you think of Fabric's OneLake as that single copy of the business analytical AND operational data, the semantic model, mapping real business entities to the RIGHT data, and then building on that with conditions, objectives, tasks and more with ontology, really makes Fabric IQ a superpower to understand the business state. youtu.be/37LHUPvT1gU 00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - OneLake 03:52 - Data to business knowledge 05:14 - Fabric IQ 06:08 - Entities and relationships 08:02 - Looking at ontology 13:24 - Using Fabric IQ 14:24 - Data agents 18:34 - Operations Agent 19:18 - Digital twin 20:01 - Summary 20:37 - Close #microsoft #microsoftfabric #fabric #fabricIQ #AI #microsoftIQ

Quick overview of how I think about Microsoft IQ (the Work IQ, Foundry IQ and Fabric IQ collective knowledge). youtu.be/1ri8HSbN4q4 00:00 - Introduction 00:31 - AI model knowledge 01:35 - Types of enterprise information 04:25 - The need for enterprise context and knowledge 05:19 - Microsoft IQ 05:54 - Work IQ 07:21 - Foundry IQ 09:28 - Fabric IQ 11:17 - Using Microsoft IQ 12:11 - Agents using Microsoft IQ 14:19 - Agent 365 15:11 - Summary 15:38 - Close #ai #microsoft #copilot #copilotstudio #microsoftfoundry #llm #a365 #workIQ #foundryIQ #fabricIQ #microsoftIQ #3IQ

This week's Azure Update is up! Happy Friday! youtu.be/edJujekFU58 LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - New videos 01:03 - AMA data to Event Hub and Storage retire 01:42 - Fleet manager namespace scope placement 02:49 - AMD v6 confidential VM new regions 03:27 - App GW DRS 2.2 04:12 - App GW v2 XFF rate limiting 04:53 - AFD and CDN weak cipher retire 06:09 - VNet routing appliance 06:55 - ACS v2.1.0 08:17 - ANF elastic ZRS 08:59 - Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks 09:40 - Claude Opus 4.6 in Foundry and more 10:14 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud #azureupdate

Quick video on my thoughts on if you should learn AI. youtu.be/4b93U-rZ7xo #AI

Thought it was time to update my "state of the union Azure" video to be current on our core identity, governance and compute abilities. Over 2 hours of Azure goodness 🤙 youtu.be/FDRuQVG30Bo 00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - Capacity and resource 05:32 - Types of service 15:49 - Scaling and consumption 20:39 - Environments 25:47 - Regions 37:18 - Availability Zones 44:25 - Zonal and zone-resilient 47:54 - Proximity placement groups 48:58 - Availability sets 49:54 - SLAs 52:14 - Azure Local 57:00 - EAs 59:19 - Governance 1:01:17 - Entra ID 1:08:13 - Management groups 1:09:24 - Resource groups 1:10:52 - RBAC 1:11:47 - Control and data plane 1:15:05 - Policy 1:16:32 - Budget 1:17:51 - Scopes 1:19:15 - Other governance 1:20:48 - Infrastructure as code 1:22:35 - Deployment stacks 1:24:36 - VM types 1:32:37 - Burstable 1:36:05 - Spot 1:38:10 - Generations 1:39:24 - Pricing calculator 1:40:01 - Savings plan and RI 1:41:44 - Capacity guarantee 1:43:04 - Confidential compute 1:47:09 - Core VM aspects 1:51:50 - Managed disks 1:55:26 - Disk encryption sets 1:57:19 - Azure Key Vault 1:58:02 - Managed identity 2:01:38 - Network 2:04:52 - App services 2:09:12 - Close #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #azureadministrator #azurearchitect #microsoftcloud