Azure Weekly

Issue #520 - 22nd June 2025

Firstly, in AI tooling, Visual Studio developers will be pleased to know that Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support, here's a detailed walkthrough on Building an MCP Server for Microsoft Learn. Ian Griffiths has recorded a short talk: AI Hallucinations Explained: Why It's Not a Bug but a Feature, and the MVP community has provided an In-Depth Guide on SharePoint Content AI.

Microsoft Fabric continues to announce new features with MCP Support for Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). On the database front, Azure SQL Database users also have something new to explore with Data Virtualization for Azure SQL Database (Public Preview). James Broome has written a guide to Synapse & Service Principal SharePoint Integration. For Azure administrators, there's excellent practical content on Mastering Azure Resource Graph: Query & Analyse Tags with KQL.

For those working in healthcare data management, there's an important piece on how to Store and Retrieve Healthcare AI Insights at Scale in Healthcare Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric, and there's some valuable guidance on how to Find skill-building volunteer opportunities with Microsoft Copilot!

Finally, earlier in the year a series of enthusiastic posts about NATS on Bluesky by yours truly, caught the attention of Tech Journalist Mary Branscombe and inspired her to write a piece for The Stack on the topic: NATS: The event bus that tries to have it all. The site is free, but you need to create an account to read the article. Mary's other articles are also worth reading - her article about Flatcar is especially good - I had spent weeks doing research about it and her article contained more information and was far better written than my research notes!