Published: 2026-03-19
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-19th-march-2026-104-edition-taswar-bhatti-n8xvf
Happy Eid (iyi Bayramlar) for the everyone; here is the #104 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday to help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe.
1. Foundry IQ: Unlocking Knowledge for Your Agents
Watch the first IQ Series with Pablo Castro introducing Foundry IQ and the role it plays in building knowledge‑centric AI systems. Ayça Baş and Farzad Sunavala then walk through how Foundry IQ supports agents by bringing together core building blocks such as retrieval, reasoning, synthesis, and orchestration, and how these components work together in practice.
2. Build AI Agents with Your Data for Under $10 a Month!
Watch Bob Ward, Principal Architect on the Azure Data team, where Bob walks through building a simple AI Application that ‘knows’ your data using Copilot Studio and Azure SQL Database. Help your marketing team or your shoppers in these real-life use cases – and then rise and repeat to build more! All for only $10 a month, with no coding skills required.
3.Beyond KQL: Unlocking SOC Insights with Sentinel data lake Jupyter Notebook
Join Javier Soriano and David H. where they introduce Jupyter Notebooks, explore the benefits they offer, and highlight their value within Microsoft Sentinel’s data lake. Join them for a step-by-step walkthrough on getting started, reading from and writing to the data lake, scheduling recurring notebook tasks, and applying advanced techniques to shape and analyze your data.
4. Building MCP on Entra: Design Choices for Enterprise Agents
Join Merill Fernando where in this session, he explores approaches for integrating MCP with Microsoft Entra Agent ID, with a focus on the foundational aspects of agent identity, consent, and authorization in enterprise environments.
5. Deploying Python apps on Azure App Service
Join Scott Hanselman and Nir Mashkowski where they will go through the simplest way to get started with Python in the cloud. The video explores different deployment approaches and recent changes to the platform to be even simpler.
As always, please give me feedback on LinkedIn. Which bullet above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Please let me know.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 🙂
Taswar