Recently Microsoft introduced MCP support for Logic Apps (as described here –> Set up Standard Workflows as MCP Servers – Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn) I just wanted to use this blog post to document a bit of the deployment and steps involved since the documentation was not that descriptive in some steps. NOTE: … Copilot Studio Agents with MCP using Logic Apps Read More »| msandbu.org
While there has been a lot of focus on Windows Recall the last week about the security issues (which I will get back to later in this article) however there are few of the articles that actually describe how the technology actually works, therefore I wanted to use this article to write down my current … How does Windows Recall work? Read More »| msandbu.org
This is something I have wanted to write for a long time, but I just had an internal session last week on this topic, and now I have gotten my thoughts down in a structured way, and therefore I wanted to write a blog post on it as well. To give some context, I am … Things you should NOT do when doing public speaking! Read More » The post Things you should NOT do when doing public speaking! appeared first on msandbu.org.| msandbu.org
While many have implemented MCP servers, not that many look at how to centrally manage and secure them. The issue with many MCP servers is that they are developed by the community, where we have limited control over changes and whether there are any hidden prompt injections, where the MCP server might have some hidden … How to secure MCP Servers? Read More » The post How to secure MCP Servers? appeared first on msandbu.org.| msandbu.org
The title is a bit misleading, but the main focus is on GenAI applications and services with your data. If you want to build a GenAI service that you want to connect with your data, RAG has so far been the preferred approach. However that does not mean that it is going to be perfect … How to make data “AI-ready”? Read More »| msandbu.org
When using PaaS services in a hub-and-spoke architecture a best-practice approach is to use Private Endpoints for accessing those services. This allows us to ensure that these services are only available internally in the Azure VNET and not publicly available. Private Endpoints is a virtual NIC (Network Interface Card) which is placed within a virtual … Network policies for Private Endpoints with UDR and NSG Read More »| msandbu.org
What already seems like many years ago, I wrote a blog about AIOps – What it could do and how one could implement it –> What is AIOps and why should I care? – msandbu.org With all the advancements in GenAI, it’s a great time to revisit the topic, especially as AIOps—how we integrate AI … The future of AIOps with Agentic AI as part of Operations Read More » The post The future of AIOps with Agentic AI as part of Operations appeared first on msandbu.org.| msandbu.org
Given all the turmoil happening in the US, many companies in Europe have become more skeptical of the use of US based cloud providers (Google, AWS, Microsoft and Oracle). Many customers now have many concerns about using US based cloud technology, where I have had many meetings with customers about topics like While the risk … Sovereign Cloud and Europe – How do the different Cloud providers differ? Read More » The post Sovereign Cloud and Europe – How do the different Cloud providers ...| msandbu.org
While on vacation this summer I was just flabbergasted by the amount of new releases, features, product announcements and improvements that was released. Therefore I decided that I wanted to write a recap on the biggest announcements and what the overall trends that I am seeing in the market. Firstly I want to point out … Generative AI – 2025 Summer Recap Read More »| msandbu.org
Working with Public Cloud the last 15 years, it has always boiled down to a new way of working (and not always the technology). Adopting a new agile approach to building and delivering services and adopting a common cloud framework from the cloud providers, but in the center of this is the CCoE (Cloud Center … Do we need an AI Center of Excellence? Read More » The post Do we need an AI Center of Excellence? appeared first on msandbu.org.| msandbu.org
A few years back I published a piece for TechTarget that stacked App Attach up against the rest of the app-layering crowd, and how the “old” MSIX AppAttach service worked. Now Microsoft has made several changes both in their application virtualization stack but also the AppAttach service has gotten some improvements. Microsoft has reversed course … Microsoft App Attach’s features Read More » The post Microsoft App Attach’s features appeared first on msandbu.org.| msandbu.org
After working a lot with GenAI the last couple of years, I see that some organisations must keep data, LLM inference inside their own data centres for compliance, latency or cost reasons. Therefore I wanted to show how to build a PoC/MVP running locally but also look more into the enterprise ecosystem in terms of … Running Large Language Models on Private Infrastructure Read More »| msandbu.org
Last week I noticed that Merill Fernando published a MCP Server for Entra ID / Graph called Lokka. I wrote earlier this week about MCP https://msandbu.org/making-actions-available-instead-of-apps-with-mcp/ and how it allows actions and APIs to be easier available using natural language. This allows to get a bunch of commands available from a MCP Host such as … Setting up MCP Server to Entra ID / Graph with Lokka Read More »| msandbu.org
For those that have worked with Citrix, MicroApps might ring a bell? The product they had allowed you to create Microapps, which was these small components that was running API calls to the backend-service and making it easy to present these on a front-end. While that product didnt work out great for Citrix, I loved … Making Actions available instead of Apps with MCP Read More »| msandbu.org
Since the initial release of Copilot for Microsoft 365 I have been bombarded with questions related to many different areas about the service. Therefore I decided to create a summary about many of the questions that I get. Some of them are basic, some of them are deep-dive. Hopefully some of you will find it … The big FAQ about Microsoft 365 Copilot Read More »| msandbu.org
Already two years ago I wrote a blog post on how different LLMs are benchmarked, safe to say that much has happened in the last two years in terms of how these models no are benchmarked. Since many of them have also gone past the initial scoring of many of them and we have needed … How Good Is a Language Model, Really? Read More »| msandbu.org
Five days ago, the Chinese company DeepSeek launched its new GenAI model, DeepSeek-R1. This model has quickly taken the GenAI world by storm, as it has been shown to compete with OpenAI’s latest models, including the more “thinking models” OpenAI-o1, at a fraction of the price. While it “only” has 671 billion parameters, rumors suggest … Top things to know about DeepSeek R1 Read More »| msandbu.org
This blog post is essentially a long recap from my session at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in November (which you can find the presentation here https://github.com/msandbu/nic2024) In this session I talked about * The core networking stack and some numbers in Azure * Features and the software-defined networking stack and how to troubleshoot* How many services in Azure … Deep-dive Azure Networking Read More »| msandbu.org
Whilst working with GenAI the last years, much of the focus the last year has been on GenAI Agents. So what is a GenAI Agent? Well there are a couple of characteristics that define it, while the line between a virtual assistant and a GenAI agent might be small there are some minor details to … GenAI Agent Overview Read More »| msandbu.org
