Azure Friday

Modernizing SQL Server for the cloud doesn’t have to be complex. In this episode, we break down what Azure SQL Managed Instance is and show how the upgraded Next‑gen General Purpose tier delivers faster performance, higher storage, and easier scaling using Azure’s latest storage technology. You’ll also see a quick Azure Portal demo with the new IOPS slider and in‑place performance scaling. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Overview of Azure SQL & SQL Managed Instance 03:30 - Service tiers in Azure SQL Managed Instance 04:14 - Storage architecture upgrade (Elastic SAN, performance gains) 04:48 - Why Next‑gen General Purpose? Azure Portal demo 07:36 - In-place IOPS scaling demo 12:33 - Summary and wrap-up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

In this video, Scott and Andrew walk through how Managed Instance on Azure App Service is purpose built to help customers move and improve their applications to Azure without the need for code changes. The video explores how to remove common migration blockers, from file and registry access, and custom installers, to system commands. The video highlights how Managed Instance on App Service can accelerate migration, gain higher performance, efficient scaling and lower TCO. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:20 - Challenges of maintaining and migrating older applications and why they are often stuck on premises or forced into VMs. 01:40 - How Managed Instance on Azure App Service solves the challenges of modernizing older applications to Azure 04:35 - Move and improve an existing application to Managed Instance on App Service and leverage the power and scale of Azure App Service. 06:50 - Deep dive into how Managed Instance on Azure App Service expands on capabilities of App Service Plans 11:51 - Using Azure Bastion to RDP into App Service Plan instances for troubleshooting using familiar tools 14:25 - Using installation scripts to configure settings, install dependencies, and enable additional system features and roles 18:20 - Summary and where to learn more Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Andrew Westgarth | Twitter/X: @apwestgarth Azure App Service | Twitter/X: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

In this video, Scott and Nir will go through the simplest way to get started with Python in the cloud. The video explores different deployment approaches and recent changes to the platform to be even simpler. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction by Scott 00:12 - Deploying to App Service with uv 08:12 - Container Terminal Access 09:47 - Summary and where to learn more Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Get started with VS Code for the Web - Azure to seamlessly run, debug and deploy your applications with no setup! This browser-based VS Code environment allows you to work as you would locally, but wherever you are. Watch this video to see us create an enterprise-grade application, run it and deploy it to Azure within minutes! Chapters 00:30 - Introduction 02:26 - VS Code for the Web - Azure Overview 05:21 - AI Template Entry Point Scenario 06:00 - Microsoft Foundry Entry Point Scenario 08:42 - RAG Chat Application - Enterprise-level Application Scenario 13:52 - GitHub Copilot in /azure 16:25 - RAG Chat Application Deployed - Testing Scenario 18:10 - Go to vscode.dev/azure to try it out today! Recommended resources VS Code Docs Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Meera Haridasa | LinkedIn: /in/meeraharidasa/ Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Would you like to take your search in SQL Server to the next level? In this episode, check out how to use vector search, securely built into SQL Server 2025. #sqlserver2025 #sqlai Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:10 - Evolution of SQL 02:44 - Intelligent searching with SQL and AI 06:16 - Model definition 08:55 - Generate embeddings 13:19 - Vector index 15:25 - Vector Search 17:50 - Azure OpenAI 19:36 - Wrap up Recommended resources Announcement Sign-up Learn Docs Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Bob Ward | Twitter/X: @bobwardms Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Elijah Straight, PM for Microsoft Agent Framework, walks through how to build a multi-agent workflow to automate work using the framework's graph-based orchestration capabilities. Microsoft Agent Framework is a multi-language SDK for Python and .NET that enables building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents with support for streaming, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop capabilities. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:35 - Visualization of demo 04:11 - PowerPoint to be synthesized 05:03 - Start of demo 10:27 - GitHub 11:47 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs GitHub Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman: https://x.com/SHanselman Elijah Straight | @elijahbuilds: https://x.com/elijahbuilds Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Are you striving to reduce the impact on the environment for your A(P)I landscape? Azure API Management is here to help! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:37 - Measuring carbon emissions with Azure Carbon Optimizations 03:03 - Carbon-optimized load balancing in Azure API Management 11:20 - Carbon insights & traffic shaping in policies 15:18 - Benefit of carbon-optimization at-scale 17:03 - wrap up Recommended resources Announcement Sign-up Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman: https://x.com/SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | @tomkerkhove: https://x.com/TomKerkhove Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Learn how to host secure and scalable remote MCP servers on Azure Functions! Hosting MCP servers remotely allows others to access tools in your servers, not just agents running on your local machine. Azure Functions provides remote hosting for two flavors of MCP servers - those built with the Functions MCP extension or with the official MCP SDKs. In this week's Azure Friday, Lily talks about how to host the SDK flavor with Scott. Check it out if you're looking to build or have already built some servers with these SDKs and are looking for a place to remotely host them! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:51 - Server project walk through 06:12 - Server deployment 07:01 - Test server in Copilot 13:56 - Questions from Scott 16:44 - Sample links and wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Azure free trial Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Santosh Chandwani to learn how Azure Storage Actions accelerates the automation of data management tasks with a distilled no-code and serverless experience. The episode explores how this fully managed platforms helps you compose and deploy tasks for data protection, cost optimization, compliance and other use cases within minutes. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - Data management challenges 03:17 - Demo – Compose and deploy Storage Actions 17:15 - Demo – Managing Storage Actions 21:46 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Santosh Chandwani | Twitter/X: @SantoshC1 Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Learn how AI Gateway capabilities let you expose, mediate, and monitor MCP tools for end-to-end AI integration. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:57 - What are MCP servers? 01:33 - AI Gateway capabilities in API Management 03:18 - MCP architecture in API Management explained 05:12 - Demo: Create, secure, manage and govern MCP tools 16:25 - Roadmap and resources 18:44 - Outro Recommended resources Learn Docs Labs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, we explore how Azure Logic Apps enables developers to build autonomous and conversational agentic workflows. The episode dives into how Agent Loop brings intelligence into workflows, supports multi-agent patterns, and makes it easy to connect agents, people, and enterprise systems — all on a secure, enterprise-ready platform. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Automation with Agents and Workflows 02:20 - Autonomous Agents and Agent loop 05:38 - Demo – IT Operations Agent 06:38 - Demo - Agent with variety of tools 07:57 - Demo – Use native A2A Chat client 09:49 - Demo - On Behalf Of consent flow within chat 13:40 - Demo - Agent observability and traceability 14:35 - Demo - Multiagent patterns 18:20 - wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

See Azure SRE Agent transform your DevOps workflow from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering. This demo showcases end-to-end incident management with ServiceNow integration, custom runbook automation, and intelligent source code analysis. Watch as incidents automatically trigger diagnosis, mitigation, root cause analysis, create GitHub tickets, and hand off to coding agents—plus get a preview of scheduled task capabilities that automate repetitive operations, freeing your team to focus on innovation and critical business insights. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 07:51 - Demo: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis via Source Code Integration 08:27 - Demo: Auto-Generated Dev Tickets in GitHub & Azure DevOps 09:50 - Demo: Seamless Handoff to Coding Agent for Automated Fixes 11:28 - Coming Soon: Scheduled Tasks - Automate Repetitive Work, Focus on Innovation 12:10 - Demo: Post-Deployment Health Checks and Prevention Recommended resources Azure Portal Learn page Public preview blog YouTube Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jordan Selig to learn about resiliency on Azure App Service and discover how quick and easy it is to add intelligent, connected agents to new and existing Azure App Service apps. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:14 - Zone redundancy on Azure App Service 04:24 - Add agents to your apps 08:17 - Demo 14:58 - Wrap up Recommended resources Blog Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jordan Selig | LinkedIn: /in/jordan-selig/ Azure App Service | Twitter/X: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Discover ACA Dynamic Sessions, a versatile, container-based, low-latency compute platform that allows you to execute LLM-generated code securely and with low cold-start latency. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Background 02:03 - Introduction to Dynamic Sessions 04:15 - Demo: using LangChain with Dynamic Sessions 07:30 - Demo: using Dynamic Sessions with Small Language Models 10:35 - Demo: bring your own container to Dynamic Sessions 14:55 - Demo: MCP 17:26 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Nir Mashkowski | @nirmsk | LinkedIn Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Nick Greenfield to learn about the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler. The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for orchestrating stateful workflows across Azure compute environments. It powers Durable Functions and Durable Task SDKs with built-in reliability, automatic retries, and persistent state management, which is powerful for long-running, distributed, or event-driven applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Durable Functions overview 05:10 - Introduction to the Durable Task Scheduler 06:41 - Start of Demo 10:51 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Samples Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

We will see how the new popular PostgreSQL extension for VSCode multiplies productivity of PostgreSQL developers with the power of Copilot. In the live demo we will design database schema, visualize it, find a performance issue in the PostgreSQL query and fix it with the help of Copilot. Finally, we'll build an app to compare breweries between Washinton and Oregon! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:48 - Demo - Connect to Azure PostgreSQL database with EntraID 04:26 - Demo - Design and visualize database schema 07:36 - Demo - Adding geospatial column 10:48 - Demo - Optimizing performance of the PostgreSQL query 15:48 - Demo - Creating an app Recommended resources PostgreSQL extension for VSCode Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Maxim Lukiyanov | LinkedIn: Maxim Lukiyanov Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

In this video Minnie talks about the Metadata Security Protocol security feature on Azure Instance Metadata Service that helps mitigate security risks by only allowing authenticated applications to communicate with the Host endpoints. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:46 - How Metadata Security Protocol works with Azure Instance Metadata 02:49 - Start of demo 02:54 - Register for feature in portal 03:11 - How to use the feature in portal 04:08 - Inside the virtual machine to check IMDS communication 04:37 - How to check which applications are communicating with different endpoints 05:26 - How to use the allowlist tool 10:02 - Where to download the allowlist tool 10:22 - Where to leave feedback Recommended resources Metadata Security Protocol on Azure Instance Metadata Service Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Vamshi Kommineni and Eitan Bremler to explore and demo how Microsoft is helping organizations protect cloud storage data at the core of their applications—by embedding intelligent, built-in posture management, threat protection, and malware scanning directly into Azure Blob Storage through its deep integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Azure Blob Storage overview 02:15 - Storage Security philosophy - Start Secure and Stay Secure 03:30 - Demo part 1 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Storage Security - Start Secure 09:28 - Demo part 2 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Storage Security - Stay Secure Recommended resources Introduction to Azure Blob Storage What is Microsoft Defender for Storage? What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Eitan Bremler | Twitter/X: @EBremler | LinkedIn: Eitan Bremler Vamshi Kommineni | Twitter/X: @VamshiKommineni | LinkedIn: Vamshi Kommineni Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Anusha Subramanian to demo Azure Databox and Azure Storage Mover, learning how to demystify storage migrations. See how these Azure tools can help you move petabytes of data easily and quickly to Azure Storage. Moving large amounts of data can be complex, but with the right tools and AI you can further simplify the process. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Guided storage migration experience 04:26 - Next Gen Azure Data Box for offline migrations 06:39 - Azure Storage Mover for online migrations 07:26 - Demo of AWS S3 to Azure blob storage migrations using Storage Mover 09:53 - Copilot for storage migrations 11:44 - Learn more about storage migrations Recommended resources Check this comparison matrix on the functionality for different tools Documentation Azure Storage Migration Solutions Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

The video describes the new Logic Apps Hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run their integration workloads in their own Kubernetes environments. This is ideal for customers initiating their journey to the cloud and hosting multiple on-premises workloads, who need to meet industry regulations, who wants to reuse their own Kubernetes infrastructure, or to avoid the natural latency introduced in hybrid configurations. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:50 - Creation of a Logic Apps with hybrid deployment model 06:25 - Creation of a workflow 08:15 - The power of the Workflow Designer 09:00 - Open telemetry in Logic Apps 10:05 - Zip deploy 10:45 - Rules engine 14:12 - Core concepts of Hybrid 14:52 - Wrap up Recommended resources Set up your own infrastructure for Standard logic apps using hybrid deployment Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter/X: @hcampsosu | LinkedIn Harold Campos | YouTube Harold Campos Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure