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A customer who just wants a Fabric capacity still gets a full Azure subscription, with everything that implies. Skipping the platform landing zone is usually the right call. Skipping the guardrails that make that safe is a different decision, and it is the one people make by accident.
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Microsoft Fabric got an official Terraform provider, it went GA back in April, and it still expects you to bring a second provider along for half the job. Here’s the split nobody spells out up front. I use Fabric most days, but rarely on my own terms: every customer has their own idea of how…
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Deployment stacks give you Complete mode without the blast radius, and deny settings are the reason to adopt them. Then I moved a protected resource to another resource group and watched the protection stay behind.
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Microsoft Fabric workspaces don’t exist in ARM. Bicep’s new Local Extension SDK means that’s no longer a wall, just a gap I could build my way across. Fabric keeps coming up on the data platform side of my day job, and every time it does I hit the same seam: half of it is a…
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Bicep quietly shipped a way to ask "do you already exist?" from inside a resource block. It should retire a workaround I’ve been carrying around for years. This one turned up on a routine scan for what had shipped in Bicep recently, and the syntax read like the kind of thing that looks clean in…
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A device that was fully enrolled, compliant, and up to date still failed sign-in with error 530003 – and why the fix had nothing to do with the browser.
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How a pile of PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and one markdown file turned my to-do list into a morning briefing.
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There’s a shift happening on a lot of the Databricks projects I’m seeing right now. Teams are moving towards Databricks Apps — a way to build and host data…
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There is no export button or API for Microsoft certifications, so I built one: Claude, Python and Playwright scraping MS Learn into a clean CSV.
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Azure Firewall rules as code, shifted left: catch CIDR typos and policy errors in the CI pipeline before they ever reach production.