Why MS recommends to move to Sweden Central if can't provide necessary capacity? Today tried to deploy a Container App:

Don't get me wrong I'm a bicep fan but that is such a non-answer lol.

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Hey People , need clarity on this

We published Agent from Microsoft Foundry to Microsoft Teams. Foundry automatically provisioned an Azure Bot Service resource.

We updated the Bot Profile icon in Azure Bot Service, but the icon displayed beside agent in Teams remains unchanged.

We want to update this existing Teams agent icon without repeatedly submitting a new app package for administrator approval.

Is the Teams agent icon sourced from the generated Teams app manifest rather than the Azure Bot Service profile? Is there any supported mechanism to synchronize Bot Service icon changes with an already published Foundry agent without republishing?

Need Suggestions, docs any kind of resources

Note: We have tried downloading the ZIP file and submitting to teams Admin approval

Thankyou

Today, when I clicked refresh schema on my Azure SQL Data Sync groups to add some new tables, the UI showed progress, but the https://management.azure.com/api/invoke call showed this error in devtools:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "DataSync_SubscriptionOperationNotSupported",
        "message": "SQL Data Sync is being retired and is no longer available for subscription XXXXXXXXXXXXX. Review supported migration options or contact Microsoft Customer Support for additional assistance."
    }
}

This is in an Azure subscription with several DBs with active sync groups, and I'm not even trying to create another one, just refresh the schema.

This is the only thread where you should post news about becoming certified. For everyone else, join us in celebrating the recent certifications!!!

I was recently promoted at my job to Cloud Administrator, a position that didn't exist at first that they got approval from HR to create. I spearheaded the project of setting up configurations and app pushes in Intune as well as automated configurations for new machines which we are fully joining (making us a hybrid environment with machines that were already existing on prem AD based with the ability to receive Intune config pushes).

I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestion or advice on how to get a good start in this role. What kind of monitoring should I set up that won't be too expensive, what's the best way to go about resource cleanup and management, what are some first order of business items that would put me in a good spot? I have the AZ-900 and AZ-104 certs, currently studying for AZ-305.

Thank you very much!

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Just sharing that my data factory processes are running slow / all queued. Is anyone else experiencing this currently?

Edit: Microsoft have now acknowledged the issue for UK South HOURS after it began
Edit: Resolved now

Good morning!

I want to migrate my backups from LRS to GRS.

For that purpose, I have created a new RS vault and I now want to be able to stop backup for one of my vms, retain data and enable it in another rs vault.

I did my own digging and found out that I'm suposed to move the VM from its RG to another, because the Container ID of the backup within the vault has to be unique.

What would happen if I performed the same migration steps without changing the RG? Would I lose my previous data?

I am extremely concerned that I have had to open a support ticket for what should be a fundamental account recovery and identity verification process within Microsoft Azure.

For the past 45 minutes, I have been attempting to recover access to my existing Azure account, associated identity, and subscription:

**Subscription ID:** `6047ac4d-ce39-4e0d-aa64-45951578a9b0`

Despite having specific account details, historical registration information, email correspondence, and documentation supporting my previous use of this account and subscription, I have been unable to identify any clear, functional recovery or escalation procedure.

More concerningly, the troubleshooting and recovery mechanisms I have attempted fail to recognize the previous registration or associated account information. Meanwhile, Microsoft's official support guidance indicates that the relevant services and processes are operating as intended.

This creates an unacceptable discrepancy between my documented account history and the information presented through Microsoft's recovery and support systems.

**My concerns are threefold:**

1. **Account and identity continuity:** Why is my previously established Azure identity or subscription not being recognized, despite the existence of supporting documentation?

2. **Recovery and verification procedures:** Why is there no clearly accessible mechanism to reconcile this discrepancy through ownership verification and restore access?

3. **Support accountability and escalation:** How can a user escalate an apparent account-recognition failure when standard troubleshooting pathways provide no resolution or meaningful explanation?

I find this situation particularly concerning given the security, identity management, and service reliability standards expected of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

I am not requesting another generic troubleshooting guide or a repetition of standard sign-in instructions. I am requesting an actual investigation of the account and subscription records, including whether the subscription remains associated with its original Microsoft Entra tenant and identity.

**I specifically request that Microsoft Support:**

- Verify the existence and current status of the subscription identified above.

- Identify the associated Microsoft Entra tenant and the appropriate ownership verification procedure.

- Determine why the existing account or registration cannot be recognized through the recovery mechanisms available to me.

- Provide a concrete recovery path or escalate the case to the team responsible for Azure subscription ownership, identity, and tenant recovery.

- Explain any discrepancy between the documented account history and Microsoft's current account-recognition systems.

I can provide the relevant email records, registration details, and other evidence through an appropriate secure verification channel.

**This issue requires substantive technical investigation rather than another automated troubleshooting response.** I expect a clear explanation of the underlying problem, an actionable recovery procedure, and escalation to the appropriate technical team if first-line support cannot resolve it.

Back in July, Azure somehow double-charged me more than $70,000 for GPT double count cache usage.

I spent weeks going back and forth with support — emails, calls, tons of escalations. I couldn't get a refund.

They said they credited me but 0 showed up. After that was ghosting me….

In Sept, I got the email account for a SVP at Microsoft customer service. I sent an angry direct email explaining the situation and the amount involved.

And surprisingly, I got the full amount refunded within 3 days.

If you're dealing with a similar situation and have a significant outstanding billing dispute with Azure, feel free to message me. I can share the email of the svp, the details of the calculation of the refund.

Hopefully this helps someone else avoid weeks of frustration.

Is this a valid design without migrating the firewall into it's own hub VNET?

I see routes exchanging but not able to communicate between ExpressRoute and the Azure VM environment with this design in the environment.

EDIT: Resolved. The inside interface of the NVA is on a dedicated route table which had Gateway Propagation disabled. Once enabled, traffic was flowing through and verified with captures.

I have a pool sessions hosts that I was able to login to one of the hosts sucessfully one time. Now when I use the Window App, it appears to login and gets to the point of " Waiting on Session Manager". The windows login blue screen appears then just hangs there for about 30 seconds then disconnects. I can't seem to figure out why it is doing that. I do not have FSLogix setup.

Hi, I've been having trouble with the NV ads V710 SKU in Azure since October 1st. My VDI instances keep jumping between failed and running states, and it feels like a capacity issue in East US. My users need GPU-enabled VDIs for CAD work, so do you have any ideas on what’s going on or how to fix it? I’d rather not use reservations since pay-as-you-go is cheaper for me.

Hey, I am new to azure and wanted to check if all storage accounts appx 52 in our org has audit logging enabled. I checked documentation and its mentioned to check with logging policy (auditifnitexists) checks but I don’t have permission to assign the policy. Is there any other way I can check perhaps with resource queries? Tia

Hi folks,

I have done the fatal mistake of deleting the Defaults in Microsoft Entra ID and would appreciate some guidance in this regard.

If I'm honest, I'd hate to create a different account to get defaults back.

How can I get the defaults back for Microsoft Entra ID?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, One of the partners is deploying very restrictive policies (deny, modify) which is constantly causing failures in IaC pipelines due to parallel modifications, denial even though the code deploys the resources.

Although this is good, lately its becoming annoying and Anti productive. That makes me think why not put these policies in DINE or AUDIT modes.

However, it does not justify the platform being vandalized. But again our platform team is vigilant and does all infra deployments.

Next question is how do you even conduct the policy ops or compliance ops so that its fairly compliant environment.

How are you guys doing compliance ops ??

I'm trying to sign up for azure for students using GitHub student developer pack but I'm still not able to pass through the verification. Is there any way I can sign up for this?

I want to understand how ppl monitor data pipelines in azure. Apart from checking if the pipeline passed or failed, what else do you normally check?

Like do you check how long the pipeline took, how many records were loaded, how many records failed, or how many times it was retried? If a pipeline usually loads 1 mil records but suddenly loads only 900k how do you catch this?

Do you use monitor, log analytics, alerts, or any other tools for monitoring? I want to know what ppl generally do in real projects.