John Savill

This week's update is up! Quick update. 📽️ youtu.be/yoVH_44xb_E 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 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

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. youtu.be/Tuh6WNJrhQU #Windows #winget #CommandLine #CLI #Automation #DevTools #ITPro #ProductivityHacks #SoftwareUpdates #TechTips

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: youtu.be/J08rfw4UBfY 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

This week's Azure Update is up! YouTube - youtu.be/wdYy3sLnfHA LinkedIn - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 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

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@NTFAQGuy wakes up at 3:30 AM every day, trains 3 hours a day Mon-Sat. His motivation: “I like to train to be healthy, so I can protect my family, to set an example for my family and to allow me to eat complete crap occasionally!” youtube.com/watch?v=gv9GYs…

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. youtu.be/oqbKWwUhh4Y 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

This week's Azure Update (from Dallas hotel) is up :-) First time back in Texas for 2 years! youtu.be/FqYQSLI6vuk #azure #microsoft

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. youtu.be/QQMLzxqJlMA 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

This week's Azure Update is up with bonus Mythos update. youtu.be/AxxFqiUImV4 Article version - linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 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

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. youtu.be/VE1HAjJB7cs 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

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

This week's Azure Update is up! 📽️ youtu.be/pQ9em70ZHd4 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 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

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. youtu.be/RbH5F_3w47E 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

This week's Azure Update (3rd April 2026) is up. 📺 youtu.be/x8ULC4uDQos 📄 linkedin.com/pulse/azure-we… 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

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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 savill.ai 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 — lnkd.in/eNxfH8Qp RAG, Semantic Search and More — lnkd.in/gZNRb8KR Getting Started with M365 Copilot — lnkd.in/gfgrv2zc Copilot Cowork Overview — lnkd.in/gmYi79sD Picking Your Agent Builder Solution — lnkd.in/eF9PEHZz Agent 365 Overview — lnkd.in/gdGmkSMZ Microsoft IQ Overview — lnkd.in/gESeAw8K Work IQ Overview — lnkd.in/grm4g9Rs Foundry IQ Overview — lnkd.in/gz3HC87z Fabric IQ Overview — lnkd.in/gR7gJHJC Getting Started with GitHub Copilot CLI and Work IQ — lnkd.in/eq2HPmUM Choosing Your First AI Application — lnkd.in/gqzZxTPh MCP or A2A — lnkd.in/gzxrtnKV What is Agentic AI — lnkd.in/g3ZW726S Generative AI Security Top Considerations — lnkd.in/gGSgrA7d #ai #artificialintelligence #copilot #m365copilot #copilotstudio #microsoftfoundry #microsoft

With Copilot Cowork available to Frontier program members I wanted to quickly go over what it is but also show it in action in a few fun demos! Big takeaways: ✅ The big one, you just give it the outcomes you want, and it works out how to do it and then does it! 🧠 Copilot Cowork uses the latest in complex reasoning, long task duration, multi-step LLMs 📄 Cowork is grounded in Work IQ and natively on OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook and more, making it very consistent, thorough and reliable on its responses ☁️ It is a cloud agent consuming no local resources. This means it is fully observable, auditable and has no local machine access. Anything it creates is uploaded to OneDrive to become available as knowledge 💬 You can continue to interact and update goals while its working Really fun demo starts about 8 minutes in 🎉 youtu.be/3jewNNMCxA8 00:00 - Introduction 00:26 - Copilot agents 01:18 - Cowork 01:44 - What is Cowork 03:36 - Grounded data 05:50 - Cloud agent 07:50 - Demo time 10:30 - Adding instructions while running 17:03 - Using Cowork 17:34 - Summary 18:04 - Close #microsoft #ai #artificialintelligence #m365 #m365copilot #cowork

Final video in my IQ series, Work IQ. What it is and why I would use it. youtu.be/gTupe7ou5xI 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - M365 data 02:15 - Semantic index 03:33 - Need for context 04:31 - Data plane 05:53 - Memory and activity 10:53 - Business understanding 11:49 - Skills and tools 16:30 - Experiences and API 18:48 - Multi-model 19:50 - Full agentic context 20:51 - Summary and other IQs 21:22 - Close #microsoft #m365 #copilot #copilotstudio #m365copilot #ai #artificialintelligence

New video looking at Entra Backup and Recovery and how we combine it with existing soft delete and protected actions to provide protection from malicious and accidental actions. youtu.be/72nowrDIlQU 📼 Entra Backup and Restore to protect the state of objects 🗑️ Soft delete to enable deleted objects to be restored for 30 days 🪬 Protected actions to stop hard deleting objects #microsoft #entraid #security

Hope to see you at the AMA in just under 4 hours! youtube.com/live/-agWE4TNP…