Azure App Service secure hostname
Hey Everyone, I see a new change in app service deployment related to the secure hostname. Is it now mandatory to have a secure hostname, because I don't see the option to toggle between the secure hostname and just the format for appservicename.azurewebsites.net ? I wasn't able to find any update notification to verify this change.
personal account authentication in Azure Active directory
AADSTS500200: User account 'email address removed for privacy reasons' is a personal Microsoft account. Personal Microsoft accounts are not supported for this application unless explicitly invited to an organization. Try signing out and signing back in with an organizational account. i checked the signInAudience: "AzureADandPersonalMicrosoftAccount" in manifest but it also give the same error
Help wanted: Refresh articles in Azure Architecture Center (AAC)
I’m the Project Manager for architecture review boards (ARBs) in the Azure Architecture Center (AAC). We’re looking for subject matter experts to help us improve the freshness of the AAC, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) repos. This opportunity is currently limited to Microsoft employees only. As an ARB member, your main focus is to review, update, and maintain content to meet quarterly freshness targets. Your involvement directly impacts the quality, relevance, and direction of Azure Patterns & Practices content across AAC, CAF, and WAF. The content in these repos reaches almost 900,000 unique readers per month, so your time investment has a big, global impact. The expected commitment is 4-6 hours per month, including attendance at weekly or bi-weekly sync meetings. Become an ARB member to gain: Increased visibility and credibility as a subject‑matter expert by contributing to Microsoft‑authored guidance used by customers and partners worldwide. Broader internal reach and networking without changing roles or teams. Attribution on Microsoft Learn articles that you own. Opportunity to take on expanded roles over time (for example, owning a set of articles, mentoring contributors, or helping shape ARB direction). We’re recruiting new members across several ARBs. Our highest needs are in the Web ARB, Containers ARB, and Data & Analytics ARB: The Web ARB focuses on modern web application architecture on Azure—App Service and PaaS web apps, APIs and API Management, ingress and networking (Application Gateway, Front Door, DNS), security and identity, and designing for reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery. The Containers ARB focuses on containerized and Kubernetes‑based architectures—AKS design and operations, networking and ingress, security and identity, scalability, and reliability for production container platforms. The Data & Analytics ARB focuses on data platform and analytics architectures—data ingestion and integration, analytics and reporting, streaming and real‑time scenarios, data security and governance, and designing scalable, reliable data solutions on Azure. We’re also looking for people to take ownership of other articles across AAC, CAF, and WAF. These articles span many areas, including application and solution architectures, containers and compute, networking and security, governance and observability, data and integration, and reliability and operational best practices. You don’t need to know everything—deep expertise in one or two areas and an interest in keeping Azure architecture guidance accurate and current is what matters most. Please reply to this post if you’re interested in becoming an ARB member, and I’ll follow up with next steps. If you prefer, you can email me at v-jodimartis@microsoft.com. Thanks! 🙂Using Claude Opus 4.6 in Github Copilot
The model selection in Github Copilot got richer with the addition of Claude Opus 4.6. The Model capability along with the addition of agents makes it a powerful combination to build complex code which requires many hours or days. Claude Opus 4.6 is better in coding skills as compared to the previous models. It also plans more carefully, performs more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review as well as debugging skills to catch its own mistakes. In my current experiment, I used it multiple times to review its own code and while it took time (understandably) to get familiar with the code base. After that initial effort on the evaluation, the suggestions for fixes/improvements were on dot and often even better than a human reviewer (me in this case). Opus 4.6 also can run agentic tasks for longer. Following the release of the model, Anthropic published a paper on using Opus 4.6 to build C Compiler with a team of parallel Claudes. The compiler was built by 16 agents from scratch to get a Rust-based C compiler which was capable of compiling the Linux kernel. This is an interesting paper (shared in resources). Using Claude Opus 4.6 in Agentic Mode In less than an hour, I built a document analyzer to analyse the content, extract insights, build knowledge graphs and summarize elements. The code was built using Claude Opus 4.6 alongwith Claude Agents in Visual Studio Code. The initial prompt built the code and in the next hour after a few more interactions - unit tests were added and the UI worked as expected specifically for rendering the graphs. In the second phase, I converted the capabilities into Agents with tools and skills making the codebase Agentic. All this was done in Visual Studio using Github Copilot. Adding the complexity of Agentic execution was staggered across phases but the coding agent may well have built it right in the first instance with detailed specifications and instructions. The Agent could also fix UI requirements and problems in graph rendering from the snapshot shared in the chat window. That along with the logging was sufficient to quickly get to an application which worked as expected. The final graph rendering used mermaid diagrams in javascript while the backend was in python. Knowledge Graph rendering using mermaid What are Agents? Agents perform complete coding tasks end-to-end. They understand your project, make changes across multiple files, run commands, and adapt based on the results. An agent runs in the local, background, cloud, or third-party mode. An agent takes a high-level task and it breaks the task down into steps. It executes those steps with tools and self-corrects on errors. Multiple agent sessions can run in parallel, each focused on a different task. On creating a new agent session, the previous session remains active and can be accessed between tasks via the agent sessions list. The Chat window in Visual Studio Code allows for changing the model and also the Agent Mode. The Agent mode can be local for Local Agents or run in the background or on Cloud. Additionally, Third Party Agents are also available for coding. In the snapshot below, the Claude Agent (Third Party Agent) is used. In this project Azure GPT 4.1 was used in the code to perform the document analysis but this can be changed to any model of choice. I also used the ‘Ask before edits” mode to track the command runs. Alternatively, the other option was to let the Agent run autonomously. Visual Studio Code - Models and Agent Mode The local Agentic mode was also a good option and I used it a few times specifically as it is not constrained by network connectivity. But when the local compute does not suffice, the cloud mode is the next best option. Background agents are CLI-based agents, such as Copilot CLI running in the background on your local machine. They operate autonomously in the editor and Background agents use Git worktrees to work in an isolated environment from your main workspace to prevent conflicts with your active work. How to get the model? The model is accessible to GitHub Copilot Pro/Pro+, business, and enterprise users. Opus 4.6 operates more reliably in large codebases, offering improved code review and debugging skills. The Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6, rolled out in research preview, provides a high-speed option with output token delivery speeds up to 2.5 times faster while maintaining comparable capabilities to Opus 4.6. Resources https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-05-claude-opus-4-6-is-now-generally-available-for-github-copilot https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/overview
Logic App Workflow() function returning un-expected results
I am new to Logic Apps, but fairly well-versed in Power Automate. In Power Automate I have a small child flow that I use as an error handler and call it from other flows to send me an email with a link to the failed flow run. I re-created this for my Logic Apps but I have run into a problem. The Error Handler Logic App is triggered by an HTTP request that takes the outputs of the workflow() expression from the calling app. Within the error handler app I parse through the definition to build a clickable link back to the calling app run that failed. When I was testing, the workflow() outputs from my ERROR_TESTER app looked like this: { "id": "/subscriptions/<SUBSCRIPTION ID>/resourceGroups/<RESOURCE GROUP NAME>/providers/Microsoft.Logic/workflows/ERROR_TESTER", "name": "ERROR_TESTER", "type": "Microsoft.Logic/workflows", "location": "centralus", "run": { "id": "/subscriptions/<SUBSCRIPTION ID>/resourceGroups/<RESOURCE GROUP NAME>/providers/Microsoft.Logic/workflows/ERROR_TESTER/runs/<RUN ID>", "name": "<RUN ID>", "type": "Microsoft.Logic/workflows/runs" } } I just caught an error from an actual app I was running. The link didn't work and on further inspection I realized that the failed app's workflow() outputs looked like this instead: { "id": "/workflows/<WORKFLOW ID>", "name": "<LOGIC APP NAME>", "type": "Microsoft.Logic/workflows", "location": "centralus", "run": { "id": "/workflows/<WORKFLOW ID>/runs/<RUN ID>", "name": "<RUN ID>", "type": "Microsoft.Logic/workflows/runs" } } Despite the other differences, I was using the "run.id" property to build the URL to the flow run. Now that it seems to be getting truncated my original error handler app doesn't work. Can anyone enlighten me on why the outputs are so different and potentially how to fix or plan for the differing outputs?
Where is subscription Key
I am following the exercise Exercise: Create a backend API at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/explore-api-management/8-import-api In step Configure the backend settings it is showed or not indicated to check "Subscription Required" however, in the test stage, step 2, it says The Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key is filled in automatically for the subscription key associated with this API which is not true as you can notice in the my API snapshot How come that it is generated, we dont see it anywhere and is bound to the API? Is it a mistake from the author?
Metered Billing Accelerator
Hi! I want to implement a central instance of the Metered Billing Accelerator (https://github.com/microsoft/metered-billing-accelerator) so my Metered Billing Marketplace Offer apps. I've reviewed the YouTube videos but they are quite old and certain things changed since the recording in Azure. Does anyone here know how to install und use it? BR AlexHow about Websoft9 application hosting Platform
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