Azure Course Blueprints
Overview The Course Blueprint is a comprehensive visual guide to the Azure ecosystem, integrating all the resources, tools, structures, and connections covered in the course into one inclusive diagram. It enables students to map out and understand the elements they've studied, providing a clear picture of their place within the larger Azure ecosystem. It serves as a 1:1 representation of all the topics officially covered in the instructor-led training. Formats available include PDF, Visio, Excel, and Video. Links: Each icon in the blueprint has a hyperlink to the pertinent document in the learning path on Learn. Layers The Visio Template+ for expert-level courses like SC-100 and AZ-305 includes an additional layer for each associate-level certification, allowing you to compare courses along the same path—such as SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, and AZ-500—within a single diagram. Likewise, you can compare any combination of AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-700, and AZ-140 to identify differences and study gaps. Since associate certifications like SC-300 and AZ-500 are potential prerequisites for SC-100, and AZ-104 or AZ-204 for AZ-305, this comparison is especially useful for understanding the extra knowledge and skills required to advance to the next level Advantages for Students Defined Goals: The blueprint presents learners with a clear vision of what they are expected to master and achieve by the course’s end. Focused Learning: By spotlighting the course content and learning targets, it steers learners’ efforts towards essential areas, leading to more productive learning. Progress Tracking: The blueprint allows learners to track their advancement and assess their command of the course material. Topic List: A comprehensive list of topics for each slide deck is now available in a downloadable .xlsx file. Each entry includes a link to Learn and its dependencies. Demos are an integral part of achieving end-to-end understanding of Azure. To make this seamless, we partnered with Peter De Tender to align the Trainer Demo Deploy with the corresponding Blueprint, enabling trainers to easily deploy the full scenario and reinforce learning objectives. Download links Associate Level PDF - Demo Visio Contents AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate R: 12/14/2023 U: 04/16/2025 Blueprint Demo Mod 01Video Visio Excel AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate R: 11/05/2024 U: 11/11/2024 Blueprint Demo Visio Excel AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate R: 01/09/2024 U: 10/10/2024 Blueprint Demo Visio+ Excel AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer Associate R: 01/25/2024 U: 11/04/2024 Blueprint Demo Visio Excel SC-200 Security Operations Analyst Associate R: 04/03/2025 U:04/09/2025 Blueprint Demo Visio Excel SC-300 Identity and Access Administrator Associate R: 10/10/2024 Blueprint Demo Excel Specialty PDF Visio AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty R: 01/03/2024 U: 02/27/2025 Blueprint Demo Visio Excel Expert level PDF Visio AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions R: 05/07/2024 U: 02/05/2025 Blueprint Demo Visio+ AZ-104 AZ-204 AZ-700 AZ-140 Excel SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect R: 10/10/2024 U: 04/09/2025 Blueprint Demo Visio+ AZ-500 SC-300 SC-200 Excel Skill based Credentialing PDF AZ-1002 Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure virtual networking R: 05/27/2024 Blueprint Visio Excel AZ-1003 Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage R: 02/07/2024 U: 02/05/2024 Blueprint Excel Subscribe if you want to get notified of any update like new releases or updates. Author: Ilan Nyska, Microsoft Technical Trainer My email ilan.nyska@microsoft.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilan-nyska/ I’ve received so many kind messages, thank-you notes, and reshares — and I’m truly grateful. But here’s the reality: 💬 The only thing I can use internally to justify continuing this project is your engagement — through this survey https://lnkd.in/gnZ8v4i8 ___ Benefits for Trainers: Trainers can follow this plan to design a tailored diagram for their course, filled with notes. They can construct this comprehensive diagram during class on a whiteboard and continuously add to it in each session. This evolving visual aid can be shared with students to enhance their grasp of the subject matter. Explore Azure Course Blueprints! | Microsoft Community Hub Visio stencils Azure icons - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn ___ Are you curious how grounding Copilot in Azure Course Blueprints transforms your study journey into smarter, more visual experience: 🧭 Clickable guides that transform modules into intuitive roadmaps 🌐 Dynamic visual maps revealing how Azure services connect ⚖️ Side-by-side comparisons that clarify roles, services, and security models Whether you're a trainer, a student, or just certification-curious, Copilot becomes your shortcut to clarity, confidence, and mastery. Navigating Azure Certifications with Copilot and Azure Course Blueprints | Microsoft Community HubStreamline Azure NetApp Files Management—Right from Your IDE
The Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension is designed to streamline storage provisioning and management directly within the developer’s IDE. Traditional workflows often require extensive portal navigation, manual configuration, and policy management, leading to inefficiencies and context switching. The extension addresses these challenges by enabling AI-powered automation through natural language commands, reducing provisioning time from hours to minutes while minimizing errors and improving compliance. Key capabilities include generating production-ready ARM templates, validating resources, and delivering optimization insights—all without leaving the coding environment.How Azure NetApp Files Object REST API powers Azure and ISV Data and AI services – on YOUR data
This article introduces the Azure NetApp Files Object REST API, a transformative solution for enterprises seeking seamless, real-time integration between their data and Azure's advanced analytics and AI services. By enabling direct, secure access to enterprise data—without costly transfers or duplication—the Object REST API accelerates innovation, streamlines workflows, and enhances operational efficiency. With S3-compatible object storage support, it empowers organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions while maintaining compliance and data security. Discover how this new capability unlocks business potential and drives a new era of productivity in the cloud.Accelerating HPC and EDA with Powerful Azure NetApp Files Enhancements
High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads demand uncompromising performance, scalability, and resilience. Whether you're managing petabyte-scale datasets or running compute intensive simulations, Azure NetApp Files delivers the agility and reliability needed to innovate without limits.Chart your AI app and agent strategy with Microsoft Marketplace
Organizations exploring AI apps and agents face a critical choice: build, buy, or blend. There’s no one-size-fits-all—each approach offers unique benefits and trade-offs. Tune in for insights into the pros and cons of each approach and explore how the Microsoft Marketplace simplifies adoption by providing a single source for trusted AI apps, agents, and models. Learn how Marketplace accelerates time-to-value, reduces procurement times and serves as the trusted source to access a catalog of thousands of AI models, enabling you to innovate faster without sacrificing governance or cost control. Where do I post my questions? Scroll to the bottom of this page and select Comment. This session will be recorded and available on demand immediately after airing. It will feature AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions and a recap of the Q&A will be available by the end of the week.Azure Resiliency: Proactive Continuity with Agentic Experiences and Frontier Innovation
Introduction In today’s digital-first world, even brief downtime can disrupt revenue, reputation, and operations. Azure’s new resiliency capabilities empower organizations to anticipate and withstand disruptions—embedding continuity into every layer of their business. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re unveiling a new era of resiliency in Azure, powered by agentic experiences. The new Azure Copilot resiliency agent brings AI-driven workflows that proactively detect vulnerabilities, automate backups, and integrate cyber recovery for ransomware protection. IT teams can instantly assess risks and deploy solutions across infrastructure, data, and cyber recovery—making resiliency a living capability, not just a checklist. The Evolution from Azure Business Continuity Center to Resiliency in Azure Microsoft is excited to announce that the Azure Business Continuity Center (ABCC) is evolving into resiliency capabilities in Azure. This evolution expands its scope from traditional backup and disaster recovery to a holistic resiliency framework. This new experience is delivered directly in the Azure Portal, providing integrated dashboards, actionable recommendations, and one-click access to remediation—so teams can manage resiliency where they already operate. Learn more about this: Resiliency. To see the new experience, visit the Azure Portal. The Three Pillars of Resiliency Azure’s resiliency strategy is anchored in three foundational pillars, each designed to address a distinct dimension of operational continuity: Infrastructure Resiliency: Built-in redundancy and zonal/regional management keep workloads running during disruptions. The resiliency agent in Azure Copilot automates posture checks, risk detection, and remediation. Data Resiliency: Automated backup and disaster recovery meet RPO/RTO and compliance needs across Azure, on-premises, and hybrid. Cyber Recovery: Isolated recovery vaults, immutable backups, and AI-driven insights defend against ransomware and enable rapid restoration. With these foundational pillars in place, organizations can adopt a lifecycle approach to resiliency—ensuring continuity from day one and adapting as their needs evolve. The Lifecycle Approach: Start Resilient, Get Resilient, Stay Resilient While the pillars define what resiliency protects, the lifecycle stages in resiliency journey define how organizations implement and sustain it over time. For the full framework, see the prior blog; below we focus on what’s new and practical. The resiliency agent in Azure Copilot empowers organizations to embed resiliency at every stage of their cloud journey—making proactive continuity achievable from day one and sustainable over time. Start Resilient: With the new resiliency agent, teams can “Start Resilient” by leveraging guided experiences and automated posture assessments that help design resilient workloads before deployment. The agent surfaces architecture gaps, validates readiness, and recommends best practices—ensuring resiliency is built in from the outset, not bolted on later. Get Resilient: As organizations scale, the resiliency agent enables them to “Get Resilient” by providing estate-wide visibility, automated risk assessments, and configuration recommendations. AI-driven insights help identify blind spots, remediate risks, and accelerate the adoption of resilient-by-default architectures—so resiliency is actively achieved across all workloads, not just planned. Stay Resilient: To “Stay Resilient,” the resiliency agent delivers continuous validation, monitoring, and improvement. Automated failure simulations, real-time monitoring, and attestation reporting allow teams to proactively test recovery workflows and ensure readiness for evolving threats. One-click failover and ongoing posture checks help sustain compliance and operational continuity, making resiliency a living capability that adapts as your business and technology landscape changes Best Practices for Proactive Continuity in Resiliency To enable proactive continuity, organizations should: Architect for high availability across multiple availability zones and regions (prioritize Tier-0/1 workloads). Automate recovery with Azure Site Recovery and failover playbooks for orchestrated, rapid restoration. Leverage integrated zonal resiliency experiences to uncover blind spots and receive tailored recommendations. Continuously validate using Chaos Studio to simulate outages and test recovery workflows. Monitor SLAs, RPO/RTO, and posture metrics with Azure Monitor and Policy; iterate for ongoing improvement. Use the Azure Copilot resiliency agent for AI-driven posture assessments, remediation scripts, and cost analysis to streamline operations. Conclusion & Next Steps Resiliency capabilities in Azure unifies infrastructure, data, and cyber recovery while guiding organizations to start, get, and stay resilient. Teams adopting these capabilities see faster posture improvements, less manual effort, and continuous operational continuity. This marks a fundamental shift—from reactive recovery to proactive continuity. By embedding resiliency as a living capability, Azure empowers organizations to anticipate, withstand, and recover from disruptions, adapting to new threats and evolving business needs. Organizations adopting Resiliency in Azure see measurable impact: Accelerated posture improvement with AI-driven insights and actionable recommendations. Less manual effort through automation and integrated recovery workflows. Continuous operational continuity via ongoing validation and monitoring Ready to take the next step? Explore these resources and sessions: Resiliency in Azure (Portal) Resiliency in Azure (Learn Docs) Agents (preview) in Azure Copilot Resiliency Solutions Reliability Guides by Service Azure Essentials Azure Accelerate Ignite Announcement Key Ignite 2025 Sessions to Watch: Resilience by Design: Secure, Scalable, AI-Ready Cloud with Azure (BRK217) Resiliency & Recovery with Azure Backup and Site Recovery (BRK146) Architect Resilient Apps with Azure Backup and Reliability Features (BRK148) Architecting for Resiliency on Azure Infrastructure (BRK178) All sessions are available on demand—perfect for catching up or sharing with your team. Browse the full session catalog and start building resiliency by default today.Boosting Hybrid Cloud Data Efficiency for EDA: The Power of Azure NetApp Files cache volumes
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the foundation of modern semiconductor innovation, enabling engineers to design, simulate, and validate increasingly sophisticated chip architectures. As designs push the boundaries of PPA (Power, Performance, and reduced Area) to meet escalating market demands, the volume of associated design data has surged exponentially with a single System-on-Chip (SoC) project generating multiple petabytes of data during its development lifecycle, making data mobility and accessibility critical bottlenecks. To overcome these challenges, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) cache volumes are purpose-built to optimize data movement and minimize latency, delivering high-speed access to massive design datasets across distributed environments. By mitigating data gravity, Azure NetApp Files cache volumes empower chip designers to leverage cloud-scale compute resources on demand and at scale, thus accelerating innovation without being constrained by physical infrastructure.
Accelerate Cloud Migration with Wave Planning in Azure Migrate
Introduction Migrating to the cloud is more than a technical upgrade - it's a strategic leap toward agility, scalability, and innovation. Yet, for many organizations, the journey can feel overwhelming, with complex dependencies and business risks threatening to slow progress. Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of wave planning in Azure Migrate - a new capability designed to make large-scale migrations more manageable and predictable. With wave planning, you can now organize your migration journey into logical, iterative waves, enabling your teams to plan, execute, and track progress with greater speed, confidence, and control. Key Benefits: Accelerate migrations: Quickly identify and prioritize “quick win” workloads and applications by surfacing relevant information from discovery and assessments. Reduced risks: Group systems that work together using application grouping, dependency analysis and tags allowing safer iterative planning. Increased predictability: Visualize migration progress and timelines centrally, enabling continuous feedback and proactive adjustments. Application-centric migrations and modernization: Plan, execute, and track every step at the application level for greater control and business alignment. Wave Planning in Azure Migrate Concepts and Stages Planning Stage During the planning stage, you can organize their applications and workloads into waves and determine the order in which these groups will be migrated. By doing so, you can establish a comprehensive plan that outlines the specific steps, timelines, and resources required for each wave, ensuring a structured and efficient approach to migration and modernization. Key aspects of the wave planning in this stage includes: Group and sequence applications and workloads using tags, dependency analysis, and workload data. Set Azure targets and migration tools based on Azure Migrate assessment recommendations. Outline planning steps, timelines, and create a wave plan for application migration and modernization. Execution Stage Using wave planning you can perform the migration and modernization activities of the application withing the wave, as per the plan and track the progress as workloads are moved, tested, and migrated / modernized in Azure. Key aspects of wave planning at this stage includes: Centrally track migration and modernization activities for all applications and workloads within the wave. You can start migrating servers and databases using Server migration and Azure database Migration Service using in-product integrations. Integrated end-to-end workflows to facilitate server migrations from on-premises environments and various public clouds to Azure Virtual Machines. Monitor and visualize wave timelines in relation to planned migration and modernization dates and implement corrective actions as required based on status updates. In a nutshell, wave planning transforms migration from a one-time event into a continuous journey of improvement. By iterating, learning, and adapting, organizations build institutional knowledge, reduce risk, and unlock the full benefits of cloud adoption. Getting Started Ready to accelerate your migration? Get start today: Learn more about using Azure Migrate – Wave planning. Explore wave planning guidance through the Cloud Adoption Framework. Learn more about Azure Migrate. Checkout application-centric migration in Azure Migrate.Migrate or modernize your applications using Azure Migrate
Introduction Moving to cloud is an essential step for enterprises looking to leverage the benefits of security, innovation (AI), scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. To help unlock these benefits migration or modernization to Azure is critical for reasons such as colocation of IT assets. A crucial part of this transformation is understanding the current state of your IT infrastructure, including workloads, applications, and their interdependencies. Cloud migration is most effective when you can decide, plan and execute it holistically focusing on applications rather than focusing on individual servers or workloads in isolation. In our endeavour to both simplify and enrich your cloud adoption journey, we are evolving Application awareness in Azure Migrate that we introduced last year with features summarized below. Overview “The new design of Azure Migrate is much more intuitive, it allows us to group workloads into applications and track them throughout the migration journey. The Business Case Generator is a true game changer, providing insights that are ready for presentation at Leadership meetings. Azure Migrate continues to improve, making the execution of migration programs more seamless, faster, and secure. It has been an invaluable tool for our customers who are in the path of migrating to Azure” - Karthik Balachandran | Architect | EY Azure Migrate delivers a major evolution in cloud migration capabilities with application awareness. Here are key new features and why they matter: Multi-Server Dependency Mapping – Provides a holistic view of application topology, so you understand all server interactions before migrating. This reduces risk by ensuring no server is left behind and dependencies are respected during cloud transition. Software & Security Insights– Offers built-in intelligence on software inventory and vulnerabilities (e.g. highlighting outdated software and missing patches). This helps improve your environment’s security and stability as part of the migration journey, benefiting IT admins and security teams. Application definition & import– Allows you to treat applications as first-class citizens in Azure Migrate (not just tag groupings). You can create and manage app groupings easily, enabling a shift from managing individual workloads to managing whole applications in your migration project. Application migration or modernization RoI – Allows you to identify investments required in respective migration strategies as well as savings that would accrue as application are moved to Azure. Application Assessments– Delivers holistic migration plans per app, including recommended strategies (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor), target Azure services, sizing, cost estimates, and readiness checks. This empowers cloud architects to make informed decisions with an application-level focus. Code insight integration – GitHub Copilot assessment – Enables a developer-driven assessment loop by incorporating GitHub App Modernization Assessment reports. This tightens collaboration with dev teams and can dynamically adjust migration recommendations (e.g., flagging apps that need refactoring). CAST Highlight– Brings code-level analytics at scale into the migration plan. By importing CAST’s code scan results, you can identify technical debt and required code changes upfront, ensuring the recommended cloud approach truly fits the app’s codebase. Wave Planning with 1P Tool Integration– Provides a planning and execution framework to migrate in phases and launch the appropriate migration tools for each component seamlessly. This ensures end-to-end coverage – from migration scheduling to real-time execution – all within Azure Migrate. Capability deep dive Identify your applications using multi-server dependency mapping and subsequently define them One of the first steps in cloud migration planning is identifying application boundaries and dependencies. Azure Migrate’s new multi-server dependency mapping provides a rich visualization of how servers communicate with each other in your environment. This goes beyond the single-server dependency view of the past – now you can visualize an entire datacenter’s topology in one view. When you discover your on-premises environment, Azure Migrate’s agentless dependency analysis automatically begins mapping connections. It even measures connection strength, helping distinguish steady, critical communication from ephemeral connections. You can subsequently define applications, and assign metadata such as Name, type – Custom or Packaged (Commercial off the shelf), Criticality, Complexity (based on the number of dependencies), etc. Additionally, you can export your discovered inventory, assign application names in a spreadsheet, and import it back to quickly create many application grouping. You are free to refine or correct groupings, too. If during analysis you realize a server or workload was grouped incorrectly, simply update the application to add or remove that member (with no need to re-run discovery). Deleting an application grouping will not delete the underlying servers; it just removes the logical app wrapper, so you can reorganize safely as needed. Now, you can plan migrations by application units rather than individual workloads. This leads to more predictable outcomes (since all interdependent pieces move together), and it eliminates guesswork that used to come from manually correlating server relationships. Proactive Software and Security Insights Migration is not just about moving workloads – it’s an opportunity to remediate and improve what you have. The new Software and Security Insights surface critical information about your IT estate early on, so you can address potential issues before migration. Once your inventory is discovered, Azure Migrate now highlights: Software Insights:The portal flags certain software or OS components that might need attention or have cloud-friendly alternatives. For example, it might detect that some VMs run outdated middleware or unsupported OS versions. The tool provides recommendations for replacement or upgrade – e.g. suggesting you Repurchase a legacy product through Azure Marketplace or move to a SaaS solution for that functionality. This helps you plan modernization (repurchasing or upgrading software) as part of the migration project, rather than carrying technical debt to the cloud. Security Insights:Azure Migrate also integrates with security monitoring to detect vulnerabilities and missing updates in your servers. More importantly, it advises how to fix them: e.g. enabling Microsoft Defender for Cloud to address vulnerabilities, and using Azure Update Manager to apply pending updates. In essence, you get a mini security assessment alongside your inventory. These insights empower IT admins and security teams to tackle risks as part of migration planning. Rather than “lift-and-shift and then fix later,” you can remediate issues in parallel with migration, leading to a more secure and optimized environment on Azure. RoI for modernizing applications We are bringing in updates to Azure Migrate Business case to help ascertain the value you stand to gain by modernizing your applications – Custom or Packaged, as well as providing spend analysis across recommended migration strategies – Rehost, Replatform and Refactor. Holistic application assessments covering Infra-Data-Web tiers Application assessment builds on Azure Migrate’s existing server, database and webapp assessments, to give a migration game-plan for an entire application. It analyzes each component and then recommends An overall migration strategyamong Rehost, Replatform and Refactor, for the application under consideration. Migration readiness, and blockers that need to be addressed for respective strategy Target Azure Services and SKUs for workloads comprising the application Monthly cost estimates to run the application on Azure Migration tooling recommendations per workload comprising the application. Instead of piecemeal workload assessments, Cloud architects get a unified view per application – making it much easier to prioritize and plan. For example, you might discover that one application is an easy rehost (quick win), while another would clearly benefit from refactoring to eliminate costly components. Application assessments surface such insights with data, so stakeholders (including application owners and developers) can agree on a path forward with confidence. Ultimately, this leads to high-confidence migration plans and minimizes surprises during execution. Improve analysis with Code-Level Insights from Github Copilot assessment and CAST Most times, whether an application can be easily Replatformed or needs Refactoring depends on the application’s source code. Hence, we are bridging the gap between infrastructure and application development realities and are offering Integration with code analysis tools – GitHub Copilot assessment and CAST Highlight – to incorporate code-level insights into Azure Migrate’s recommendations. Talking about GitHub copilot – it is an indispensable tool for the application development. Developers can identify changes required in the code bases of their applications to make them ready for modernization to PaaS services such as AKS, App Service, etc. The cloud architect running Azure Migrate application assessment can request the application developers to ingest the code change insights from GitHub copilot assessment into Azure Migrate assessment. Once this report is ingested, you’ll see the Azure Migrate assessment refine its recommendations conclusively – such readiness, effort to make the code changes, migration strategy – depending upon whether the code changes are minimal or significant. Similarly, at-scale/ portfolio level code analysis performed using CAST Highlight, a prominent software intelligence platform, can be imported into Azure Migrate to improve the assessment recommendations. In practice, this means Azure Migrate will know if the code has, say, outdated libraries or many hard-coded dependencies that make cloud migration harder. Overall, the integration of code insights leads to more realistic migration plans and smoother hand-offs between cloud infrastructure teams and dev teams. Wave Planning and Integrated Migration Execution After discovering applications, assessing them, and incorporating any code insights, you’re ready to migrate or modernize – but large migrations often happen in phases. That’s where the new Wave Planning feature comes in. Wave planning in Azure Migrate helps you organize and sequence the actual migration execution in waves or batches, plan the migration activities and execute using integrated first party migration tools and track the end-to-end migrations; thereby providing a single place where different users – Cloud architects, developers, application owners, etc. can collaborate and coordinate through the migration journey. If your strategy for an application (or a particular server in the application) is Rehost (lift-and-shift to Azure VMs), Azure Migrate will use its built-in Server Migration capability. You can start the replication of that server to Azure right from the wave plan. If your strategy is Replatform or Refactor and involves migrating data, the wave plan can redirect you to Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). All these integrations mean you can coordinate multi-step migrations from one place. Wave planning is aware of various target strategies and helps orchestrate them, so cloud administrators don’t have to juggle separate tool interfaces for VMs vs. databases vs. web apps. As each part of a wave completes, Azure Migrate updates the wave status for Rehost scenarios and users can manually update the status’ for Refactor or Replatform scenarios where some steps may take out of band. Interested in trying the new feature set and experience? All the above features are available in Azure Migrate now (in preview as of 7 th November, 2025). Just create a new Azure Migrate project and you’ll be greeted with the new interface. From there, you can start defining applications and exploring these capabilities with your own data. About Azure Migrate Azure Migrate is Microsoft’s free platform for migrating and modernizing to Azure. It provides IT resource discovery, assessment, business case analysis, wave planning, migration, and modernization capabilities in a workload agnostic manner. You can run and monitor your migration/ modernization journey from a single, secure portal. Currently, Azure Migrate's application aware experience supports the discovery of following workloads: Windows Server, Linux Server, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, .NET webapp on IIS, and Java on Tomcat running on various platforms including, VMware, Microsoft, Bare-metal, AWS EC2, GCP CE, and Xen. Further, it supports assessments and wave planning for Azure VM, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, App Service Code, App Service Containers, and Azure Kubernetes Service. Last, it supports in-line Lift and Shift migration to Azure VM and Azure Local. Note: MySQL discovery and assessment is available in the classic experience only
Agentic Integration with SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce
Copilot/Copilot Studio Integration with SAP (No Code) By integrating SAP Cloud Identity Services with Microsoft Entra ID, organizations can establish secure, federated identity management across platforms. This configuration enables Microsoft Copilot and Teams to seamlessly connect with SAP’s Joule digital assistant, supporting natural language interactions and automating business processes efficiently. Key Resources as given in SAP docs (Image courtesy SAP): Configuring SAP Cloud Identity Services and Microsoft Entra ID for Joule Enable Microsoft Copilot and Teams to Pass Requests to Joule Copilot Studio Integration with ServiceNow and Salesforce (No Code) Integration with ServiceNow and Salesforce, has two main approaches: Copilot Agents using Copilot Studio: Custom agents can be built in Copilot Studio to interact directly with Salesforce CRM data or ServiceNow knowledge bases and helpdesk tickets. This enables organizations to automate sales and support processes using conversational AI. Create a custom sales agent using your Salesforce CRM data (YouTube) ServiceNow Connect Knowledge Base + Helpdesk Tickets (YouTube) 3rd Party Agents using Copilot for Service Agent: Microsoft Copilot can be embedded within Salesforce and ServiceNow interfaces, providing users with contextual assistance and workflow automation directly inside these platforms. Set up the embedded experience in Salesforce Set up the embedded experience in ServiceNow MCP or Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Interoperability (Pro Code) - (Image courtesy SAP) If you choose a pro-code approach, you can either implement the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in a client/server setup for SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce, or leverage existing agents for these third-party services using Agent-to-Agent (A2A) integration. Depending on your requirements, you may use either method individually or combine them. The recently released Azure Agent Framework offers practical examples for both MCP and A2A implementations. Below is the detailed SAP reference architecture, illustrating how A2A solutions can be layered on top of SAP systems to enable modular, scalable automation and data exchange. Agent2Agent Interoperability | SAP Architecture Center Logic Apps as Integration Actions Logic Apps is the key component of Azure Integration platform. Just like so many other connectors it has connectors for all this three platforms (SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce). Logic Apps can be invoked from custom Agent (built in action in Foundry) or Copilot Agent. Same can be said for Power Platform/Automate as well. Conclusion This article provides a comprehensive overview of how Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Foundry by A2A/MCP, and Azure Logic Apps can be combined to deliver robust, agentic integrations with SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce. The narrative highlights the importance of secure identity federation, modular agent orchestration, and low-code/pro-code automation in building next-generation enterprise solutions.
