Last week I noticed that Merill Fernando published a MCP Server for Entra ID / Graph called Lokka. I wrote earlier this week about MCP https://msandbu.org/making-actions-available-instead-of-apps-with-mcp/ and how it allows actions and APIs to be easier available using natural language. This allows to get a bunch of commands available from a MCP Host such as …
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For those that have worked with Citrix, MicroApps might ring a bell? The product they had allowed you to create Microapps, which was these small components that was running API calls to the backend-service and making it easy to present these on a front-end. While that product didnt work out great for Citrix, I loved …
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Since the initial release of Copilot for Microsoft 365 I have been bombarded with questions related to many different areas about the service. Therefore I decided to create a summary about many of the questions that I get. Some of them are basic, some of them are deep-dive. Hopefully some of you will find it …
Already two years ago I wrote a blog post on how different LLMs are benchmarked, safe to say that much has happened in the last two years in terms of how these models no are benchmarked. Since many of them have also gone past the initial scoring of many of them and we have needed …
Five days ago, the Chinese company DeepSeek launched its new GenAI model, DeepSeek-R1. This model has quickly taken the GenAI world by storm, as it has been shown to compete with OpenAI’s latest models, including the more “thinking models” OpenAI-o1, at a fraction of the price. While it “only” has 671 billion parameters, rumors suggest …
This blog post is essentially a long recap from my session at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in November (which you can find the presentation here https://github.com/msandbu/nic2024) In this session I talked about * The core networking stack and some numbers in Azure * Features and the software-defined networking stack and how to troubleshoot* How many services in Azure …
Whilst working with GenAI the last years, much of the focus the last year has been on GenAI Agents. So what is a GenAI Agent? Well there are a couple of characteristics that define it, while the line between a virtual assistant and a GenAI agent might be small there are some minor details to …
This is a blogpost that I have been wanting to write for a while, and since I have gotten asked a lot of questions throughout the years on this topic. How do I stay up to date on relevant topics? how do I learn new things? Therefore I wanted to write down my approach, does …
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After some discussions with a customer this week, I decided to do a more in-depth analysis of Azure Storage, which I have done before many times. But this time I wanted to evaluate different options just to give people a better understanding of the impact of different configuration settings. NOTE: I will follow up with …
After reading so much blog posts and new services from Palo Alto, Wiz and other security vendors selling products for either AI Secure posture management or other MODERN ways too protect from prompt injections or other types of attacks that can be used against an Generative AI service. Eventually I got tired of all the …
