Azure Weekly

Issue #543 - 7th December 2025

First-up in Analytics: Turning everyday documents from SharePoint and OneDrive into analytics ready data with OneLake shortcuts – Microsoft Fabric now enables OneLake shortcuts to SharePoint and OneDrive, bringing productivity documents like Word, Excel, and PDFs into analytics workflows without copying data. Serverless Workspaces are live in Azure Databricks – Azure Databricks Serverless workspaces are now in public preview, allowing instant workspace creation without managing VNets, compute, or storage infrastructure. Foundry IQ for Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases – Foundry IQ enables AI agents to automatically search and retrieve information across multiple data sources using AI-powered query planning and orchestration.

In DevOps: Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console – The new experimental Bicep console provides a REPL environment for prototyping and validating Bicep expressions interactively without requiring Azure connections. Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions – A comprehensive guide to using Azure Trusted Signing with GitHub Actions to automatically code-sign Windows executables without managing certificate files. Azure Blob Storage SFTP - Resumable Uploads (GA) – Azure Blob Storage SFTP resumable uploads is now generally available, enabling users to continue failed partial file transfers from the point of failure.

Finally, View Microsoft Ignite sessions on demand – All Microsoft Ignite 2025 sessions are now available on demand for catching up on announcements and technical content.