Azure Friday (Audio)

Learn how to host secure and scalable remote MCP servers on Azure Functions! Hosting MCP servers remotely allows others to access tools in your servers, not just agents running on your local machine. Azure Functions provides remote hosting for two flavors of MCP servers - those built with the Functions MCP extension or with the official MCP SDKs. In this week's Azure Friday, Lily talks about how to host the SDK flavor with Scott. Check it out if you're looking to build or have already built some servers with these SDKs and are looking for a place to remotely host them! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:51 - Server project walk through 06:12 - Server deployment 07:01 - Test server in Copilot 13:56 - Questions from Scott 16:44 - Sample links and wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Azure free trial Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Santosh Chandwani to learn how Azure Storage Actions accelerates the automation of data management tasks with a distilled no-code and serverless experience. The episode explores how this fully managed platforms helps you compose and deploy tasks for data protection, cost optimization, compliance and other use cases within minutes. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - Data management challenges 03:17 - Demo – Compose and deploy Storage Actions 17:15 - Demo – Managing Storage Actions 21:46 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Santosh Chandwani | Twitter/X: @SantoshC1 Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Learn how AI Gateway capabilities let you expose, mediate, and monitor MCP tools for end-to-end AI integration. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:57 - What are MCP servers? 01:33 - AI Gateway capabilities in API Management 03:18 - MCP architecture in API Management explained 05:12 - Demo: Create, secure, manage and govern MCP tools 16:25 - Roadmap and resources 18:44 - Outro Recommended resources Learn Docs Labs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, we explore how Azure Logic Apps enables developers to build autonomous and conversational agentic workflows. The episode dives into how Agent Loop brings intelligence into workflows, supports multi-agent patterns, and makes it easy to connect agents, people, and enterprise systems — all on a secure, enterprise-ready platform. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Automation with Agents and Workflows 02:20 - Autonomous Agents and Agent loop 05:38 - Demo – IT Operations Agent 06:38 - Demo - Agent with variety of tools 07:57 - Demo – Use native A2A Chat client 09:49 - Demo - On Behalf Of consent flow within chat 13:40 - Demo - Agent observability and traceability 14:35 - Demo - Multiagent patterns 18:20 - wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

See Azure SRE Agent transform your DevOps workflow from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering. This demo showcases end-to-end incident management with ServiceNow integration, custom runbook automation, and intelligent source code analysis. Watch as incidents automatically trigger diagnosis, mitigation, root cause analysis, create GitHub tickets, and hand off to coding agents—plus get a preview of scheduled task capabilities that automate repetitive operations, freeing your team to focus on innovation and critical business insights. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 07:51 - Demo: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis via Source Code Integration 08:27 - Demo: Auto-Generated Dev Tickets in GitHub & Azure DevOps 09:50 - Demo: Seamless Handoff to Coding Agent for Automated Fixes 11:28 - Coming Soon: Scheduled Tasks - Automate Repetitive Work, Focus on Innovation 12:10 - Demo: Post-Deployment Health Checks and Prevention Recommended resources Azure Portal Learn page Public preview blog YouTube Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure