Author: jbmurphy
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The June 2, 2026 Azure Update Drop: What Shipped and Why It Matters
Microsoft pushed over a hundred Azure updates in one June 2 drop – heavy on AI agents and databases. Here’s the stuff actually worth your time.
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Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0, part 2: a Jenkins-gated debate between agents
Part 2: three agents (velocity, caution, judge) run as a per-PR Kubernetes Job, post a verdict back to the PR, and exit 0/1/2 so Jenkins gates the deploy stage on the result.
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Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: three runnable Python examples
Three small Python examples for Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: a hello-world agent against Azure OpenAI, an agent with a local Python tool, and an agent connected to a remote Streamable HTTP MCP server.
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Azure updates: weeks 21-22, 2026
Azure updates from weeks 21-22 of 2026, with notes on the five worth more than a line: Agent Framework 1.0 GA, Front Door WebSocket support, P2S User Groups, Entra-only Azure Files, and the GA VNet flow logs connector for Microsoft Sentinel.
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Running eclipse-mosquitto in an Azure IoT Edge Module
I was looking to run a MQTT broker on an IoT edge device, allowing devices to communicate locally with each other. The most important thing is to modify the “Container Create Options” so that the container’s port can be seen on the local network. Also I want to use the no auth mosquitto config (it…
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How to find the Raspberry Pi model
Note to self: How to find the Raspberry Pi Model :
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Azure Functions (PowerShell) : Find the current FunctionApp and Function names
I was writing an Azure Function in PowerShell. I wanted to know the name of the current FunctionApp and the current Function. Since it was a timer triggered function, I couldn’t pass the names. It took me a while to to figure this out. There may be other ways, but this only way I could…
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Quickly find that new Raspberry Pi’s address
Saw this the other day, and I wanted to post it, so that I can remember it. How to find a Raspberry Pi’s DHCP address:
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Quick 1 liner to download your Azure Billing Statements
Simple and quick – I had never done it before. I was working on a different script, but I realized that I have never downloaded my billing statements from azure. Simple 1 liner to download them: Hope that helps someone!
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PowerShell to get the cost of a VM per day
I wanted to get the cost of a VM each day. I came up with the following code. Just the VM cost, not the ingress (DataTrIn) or egress (DataTrOut). I hope it helps someone!