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Tool Orchestration: Managing Complex Tool Interactions
Robust tool orchestration enables complex, reliable AI workflows.
Integration
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Model Context Protocol in Azure: Standardized Tool Integration
MCP standardizes how AI systems connect to external tools and data sources.
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Microsoft Fabric AI Integration: Unified Analytics and Intelligence
Microsoft Fabric integrates AI throughout the analytics lifecycle from ingestion to insights.
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Fabric AI Deep Integration: Advanced Patterns
Fabric + AI creates a powerful platform for intelligent analytics. Leverage Spark's scale with AI's intelligence.
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Event-Driven AI Integration: Connecting AI to Business Events
Event-driven AI enables intelligent, automated responses to business events. Start with high-value events where AI can add immediate value.
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Microsoft Fabric and AI Integration: Complete Guide
Fabric + AI creates a powerful combination for intelligent analytics. Start with simple enrichments and build toward complex AI-powered workflows.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Standard for AI-Application Integration
MCP is becoming essential infrastructure for enterprise AI. Start building your MCP servers today.
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Fabric and Copilot Studio Integration: Building Data-Driven AI Assistants
The Fabric + Copilot Studio integration makes enterprise data conversationally accessible while maintaining security and governance.
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Copilot Actions and Connectors: Extending AI Capabilities
Actions in Copilot Studio are implemented using Power Automate flows or Azure Functions. Multi-step workflows are best implemented using Power Automate flows.
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OneLake Interoperability: Connecting Your Data Ecosystem
1. Use managed identity : Preferred for Azure services 2. Leverage shortcuts : Don't copy data unnecessarily 3. Optimize file sizes : 128MB 1GB for best…
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Microsoft Fabric and Databricks: Coexistence Strategies
1. Use shared storage : ADLS as the common data layer 2. Standardize on Delta Lake : Compatible format for both 3. Optimize for readers : Both platforms…
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Automated Actions in Microsoft Fabric
Automated actions are what make Data Activator powerful. Today I'm exploring all the ways you can respond to data conditions automatically.
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Fabric REST APIs: Programmatic Control of Your Analytics Platform
Microsoft Fabric's REST APIs enable automation and integration with your existing tools. This guide covers the key APIs and common use cases.
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Azure OpenAI REST API: Direct Integration Without SDKs
Azure OpenAI REST API follows this pattern: Two authentication methods are available: Always specify the API version: 1. Always handle errors : Check status…
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Dataverse Business Events: Event-Driven Architecture
Business events provide: Decoupled integration Real time notifications Webhook delivery Azure Service Bus integration Define a custom business event:…
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Dataverse Virtual Tables: Integrating External Data
Virtual tables provide: Real time access to external data Native Dataverse experience Security role support Power Platform integration Implement a custom…
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Building Custom Connectors for Power Automate
A custom connector defines: API endpoints and operations Authentication method Request/response schemas Triggers and actions The easiest approach is…
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Power Automate Cloud Connectors: Connecting Your Enterprise
Included with most Power Platform licenses: Require Power Automate Premium or per flow license: 1. Use managed identity when possible : Avoid storing…
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Dataverse Integration: Connecting Power Platform to Azure
Dataverse integration enables a seamless data platform spanning Power Platform and Azure services.
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Microsoft Teams Integration with Azure: Building Collaborative Apps
Microsoft Teams integration with Azure enables powerful collaborative applications. Whether building bots, tabs, or webhooks, the combination provides a…
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Azure Data Factory Web Activity: Integrating REST APIs in Data Pipelines
The Web activity in ADF is the HTTP client that lets your pipeline call external REST APIs—triggering a Logic App, posting a Teams notification, calling a…
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Logic Apps Connectors - A Deep Dive into Enterprise Integration
Logic Apps connectors are the product feature that makes integration architects either love or dread the platform. Over 400 connectors covering everything…
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Advanced Azure API Management Policies
I revisit APIM policies on this blog roughly every six months because the patterns are how the service earns its keep. Rate limiting per subscription, JWT…
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Azure Service Bus Advanced Patterns: Sessions, Transactions, and Dead-lettering
Service Bus is the message broker I most often pull off the shelf in 2021, and it's the advanced patterns—not the basic queue—that earn it the spot.…
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Azure Logic Apps Standard: Single-Tenant Workflows
Logic Apps Consumption was great for "wire up two SaaS apps quickly" and increasingly painful at scale—shared multi-tenant runtime, no VNet integration…
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Azure Logic Apps: Enterprise Integration Patterns
Logic Apps is the first thing I build in when a client says "we need to integrate with Salesforce, then push to SAP, then notify the team in Teams."…
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Azure Data Factory Linked Services: Connect Everything
Best practice: use Managed Identity where supported. Linked Services are the foundation of Data Factory connectivity.
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Azure Logic Apps: Connectors for Everything
Accept webhooks from any source. Create connectors for your APIs. Logic Apps is the integration glue for enterprise systems.
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Azure Service Bus: Queues and Topics Patterns
Service Bus is the backbone of reliable, decoupled architectures on Azure.
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Azure Logic Apps for Enterprise Integration
Logic Apps excels at the unglamorous middleware work — turning the SOAP service the warehouse system exposes into the REST endpoint the new mobile app…
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Building Power Automate Custom Connectors
The power of custom connectors: developers build once, business users consume forever.
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B2B Integration Patterns with Azure Logic Apps
Most Logic Apps content online is about Office 365 connectors and approval workflows — and that's fine, but the enterprise use case I keep running into is…
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Building Integrations with Power Automate HTTP Connector
A pattern I keep seeing this year: the IT team has standardised on Power Automate for citizen-developer workflows, but the moment a flow needs to talk to an…