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   13 Mar 2026

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   2 Mar 2026

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   2 Mar 2026

   Harness the power of your data with SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database

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   3 Feb 2026

   Orchestrate your Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework

   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…

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   12 Dec 2025

   Host remote MCP servers on Azure Functions

   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 -…

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   14 Nov 2025

   Automating data management tasks with Azure Storage Actions

   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…

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   7 Nov 2025

   MCP tools in Azure API Management: Secure, govern, and scale Your AI workflows

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   3 Nov 2025

   Building agentic workflows with Azure Logic Apps

   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 -…

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    3 Nov 2025

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