In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to streamline their data integration processes, enhance productivity, and democratize access to powerful data engineering capabilities with Copilot for Data Factory. At Microsoft…

We are excited to continue to expand the use cases addressed with our unified SecOps platform, which brings the capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel, Defender...

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET on Heroku: Now Generally Available | Heroku Semantic Kernel Agents are now Generally Available | Semantic Kernel Microso…

We are excited to share the first models in the Llama 4 herd are available today in Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks, which enables people to build more personalized multimodal experiences. These models from Meta are designed to seamlessly integrate…

We are excited to announce the availability of Meta's Llama 4 in Azure Databricks. 
As you know, enterprises all over the world already use Llama...

We are excited to announce the availability of Meta's Llama 4 in Azure Databricks. 
As you know, enterprises all over the world already use Llama...

A few weeks ago, we announced the Public Preview Refresh release of Logic Apps hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run Logic Apps workloads on a...

In this post, I describe how you can use a natural sort in PowerShell.

Implement Hybrid Search with SQL Server and Azure SQL using RRF with fulltext search the modern vector similarity search

In this issue:

Ace Aviator of the Month
News from our product group
Community Playbook
News from our community


Ace Aviator of the Month
April’s Ace...

Imagine a retail company that wants to gain insights into customer sentiment for each of its products. They also want to find their top-selling and least-selling products. Using Microsoft Fabric, they can build a powerful analytical application to transform…

Learn how to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using the C# SDK to enable seamless communication between AI models and applications.

User Data Functions are now available in preview within data pipeline’s functions activity! This exciting new feature is designed to significantly enhance your data processing capabilities by allowing you to create and manage custom functions tailored to…

A catalogue of FP solutions to a sample problem.

Automated Deployments
There is currently not much quality information on how to deploy workflows to Logic Apps Standard.
Logic Apps Standard is built on the...

With the rise of Generative AI technologies, web search has never been more important—or more overwhelming. Modern search engines like Bing excel at...

GitHub chose Microsoft's 50th anniversary to highlight a bevy of Copilot enhancements that further the practice of 'vibe coding,' where AI does all the drudgery according to human supervision.

The OPENROWSET function is generally available in Fabric Data Warehouse and Fabric SQL endpoints for Lakehouse and Mirrored databases. The OPENROWSET function enables you to easily read Parquet and CSV files stored in Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Blob…

Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding.

EF Core offers ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteDelete batch operations that allow updating and deleting multiple entities in a single SQL query without retrieving them from the database. Learn how to correctly use these methods in EF Core to ensure data consistency.