September 2026. Views are my own, not Microsoft guidance. Pricing and product behavior change fast: everything below is accurate at time of writing. Verify against current pricing and docs before you...

Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with the release of lists, arrays in cells, and n...

Most computing experiences rely on sight and sound. A window moves into place. An object aligns to a guide. A control changes on screen. Haptics adds another channel: touch.  A well-designed tactil...

In Part1, we discussed how to use HTTP action to migrate from the deprecated Data Collector API to Log Ingestion API. However, since the deprecated Data Collector API was allowing message payload u...

Inside M365 Twin Cities 2026: A Day of Microsoft 365, AI, and Community M365 Twin Cities 2026 connected Microsoft experts, MVPs, partners, and community members for a practical day of learning at H...

Welcome back. In Part 1 we learned what an MCP server is and built a real one — a VM inventory tool that reads your Azure estate with Azure Resource Graph and reports it by region and availability zo...

If you have been hearing the term “MCP server” everywhere and quietly nodding along without fully getting it — this post is for you. My goal is simple: by the time you reach the bottom of this page, ...

A retrieval-augmented generation prototype can look convincing after an afternoon: load a few documents, create embeddings, retrieve passages, and ask a model to answer. A health-records system is ha...

A health-record index is most vulnerable while it is being rebuilt. A source database can disconnect halfway through a large table. An embedding process can fail after thousands of rows. The applicat...