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Marc de Droog demonstrates Azure Virtual Network TAP (VTAP) by mirroring full VM NIC traffic (including payload) to a destination VM and inspecting the VXLAN-encapsulated packets in Wireshark.

Reenu Saluja breaks down the main Azure hosting options for production AI agents and explains when to use each, with a deeper walkthrough of Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents (deployment, lifecycle management, observability, scaling, and invocation patterns).

In this community post, nishantmv breaks down a production-grade Azure serverless architecture for an enterprise facility-management IoT platform, covering a multi-provider telemetry pipeline, template-driven device modeling, an event-driven rule engine, and the security/resilience hardening that made it ready for production.

Kristen Womack explains how `azd update` simplifies keeping the Azure Developer CLI current across Windows, macOS, and Linux, including how to switch between stable and daily release channels.

ManishChopra outlines six practical integration patterns for building agents and copilots that query Oracle Database@Azure with sub-millisecond proximity to Microsoft’s AI stack, covering options from Copilot Studio connectors to ORDS/PL/SQL, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps, plus the identity/governance controls typically needed for production.

Ismael Mejía Useche and Pooja Yarabothu introduce the “PostgreSQL Like a Pro” video series, focused on practical ways to run and modernize PostgreSQL workloads on Azure—covering AI agent patterns, AI-assisted migrations in VS Code, and performance/resiliency considerations at scale.

Microsoft Developer features Gauri Kasar explaining how Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports resilient, high-performance app deployments, including high availability, read replicas, backup/restore, and elastic clusters for scaling.

Microsoft Developer features Jonathon Frost from the Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL team, walking through migrating to managed PostgreSQL on Azure (homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios) and demonstrating AI-assisted Oracle-to-Postgres migration using VS Code with GitHub Copilot.

Microsoft Developer hosts Abe Omorogbe showing how to build AI-powered agents on Azure backed by PostgreSQL, including secure connectivity, natural-language querying/analytics, and vector search, using Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft Developer shares Dingding Liu’s overview of Azure HorizonDB, a new Azure-managed PostgreSQL service aimed at extreme scale and performance, including architecture highlights, a quick VS Code provisioning demo, and AI-oriented capabilities like vector indexing and SQL-based AI functions.

jordanselig shows how to add runtime governance to a multi-agent ASP.NET Core travel planner on Azure App Service using the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit, including YAML policy allowlists, audit logging into Application Insights, and SRE controls like SLOs and circuit breakers.

ssaluja72 shares a Sync-over-Async architecture pattern for edge API gateways on Azure Service Bus, replacing session-based request/reply correlation with stateless topic subscriptions filtered by CorrelationId to avoid session lock bottlenecks and improve horizontal scalability.

Sergey Menshykh explains how Agent Skills in .NET can be authored as file-based skills, inline C# skills, or class-based skills (for example shipped via NuGet), then composed into a single provider. The article also shows script execution and a human-approval gate for tool/script calls in production-style agent scenarios.

Marc de Droog walks through connecting an Azure ExpressRoute circuit to Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) running a Cisco 8000v NVA, including circuit creation, Megaport VXC setup, Azure Private Peering configuration, and the required Cisco IOS interface/BGP commands.

Welcome back to this week's roundup. The main thread is that agents are showing up in more places, and teams are getting clearer ways to control how those agents run. Updates across Copilot (IDE, CLI, cloud agent, and mobile) focused on practical autonomy controls, offline/BYOK routing, cross-model review checkpoints, and security remediation loops that end in reviewable pull requests. In parallel, MCP and Azure AI Foundry updates continued to reinforce "run it like software" basics: deployable tool surfaces with real auth, consistent runtimes across cloud and local, and clearer observability and identity boundaries for day-two operations.

mshboul explains how Logic Apps users can migrate from the deprecated Log Analytics HTTP Data Collector API to the Azure Monitor Log Ingestion API, including how to create DCE/DCR resources, build the ingestion URL, assign the right IAM role to a managed identity, and send data via an HTTP action.

John Savill's Technical Training walks through how SFTP on Azure Storage can use Microsoft Entra ID for authentication, including a demo and practical notes on token lifetime and data-plane authorization (RBAC/ABAC).

John Savill's Technical Training shares a short overview pointing to a full video on integrating Microsoft Entra ID identities for authentication and authorization when accessing Azure Storage via SFTP.

TomClaes shows how to use Azure Policy to enforce the correct LicenseType on SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc, including PowerShell-based deployment, remediation runs, and the RBAC permissions needed to keep Arc SQL inventory compliant at scale.

kevinguo introduces wildcard group roles in Azure Web PubSub, explaining how pattern-based permissions reduce token bloat and simplify authorization for real-time apps that use many dynamic groups.