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Setting up SQL Managed Instance Link to an Availability Group (Updated September 2025)

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SamGarth
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Jan 10, 2025

We will go through an example to ensure an AG failover does not break Managed Instance Link.

On a recent case, a customer was trying to set up SQL Managed Instance Link to partner with an on premise Always On Availability Group (AG). Using the public documentation will work, but there are so...
Updated Sep 19, 2025
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mario_lottering
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Apr 29, 2025

This guide is out of date.. Probably needs to look like this or something similar:

New-AzSqlInstanceLink -InstanceName $ManagedInstanceName -Name $DAGName -PartnerAvailabilityGroupName $AGNameOnSQLServer -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -InstanceAvailabilityGroupName $AGNameOnSQLMI -PartnerEndpoint $SourceIP -Database $DatabaseName

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    SamGarth
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    Sep 22, 2025

    Hi Mario, thank you for the post. I have updated the post to reflect the current version on Azure Cloud Shell.