The short answer? They are the same product. In October 2023, Microsoft rebranded “Azure Cognitive Search” to “Azure AI Search” to better reflect the service’s expanded role in the era of Generative AI. It represents a fundamental shift in how we handle data retrieval for modern applications. Azure AI Search Vs Cognitive Search Evolution: From … Read more >>
An online retailer I worked with ran its product search with a SQL LIKE ‘%term%’ query. It worked on day one. Two years and 80,000 products later, the search box took six seconds to answer, returned nothing for “wireles headphone,” and could not tell a customer which brands or price ranges matched. Support tickets about … Read more >>
A regional healthcare group rolled out remote desktops to 150 billing staff in one weekend. The pilot looked cheap, so nobody set limits. Three months later the finance team asked why the monthly Azure bill had tripled. Every session host was running around the clock, each user had a dedicated oversized VM, and a premium … Read more >>
On the Monday after a company moved 80 employees to remote desktops, the help desk got 40 tickets before 9 a.m. Half said “I signed in, but I see nothing.” The others said “it asks for a password again and again.” The desktops were fine. The problems were all on the connection path: users who … Read more >>
In this Azure tutorial, we will discuss how to fix the error. You must have the Azure Functions core tools installed. I got this error while running an Azure Function project using Visual Studio Code on my local machine. You must have the Azure Functions core tools installed to debug your local functions Recently, while creating one … Read more >>
Microsoft provides two distinct, enterprise-grade cloud desktop paths: Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 (Cloud PC). In this article, I will take you inside both platforms. We will analyze their underlying architectural philosophies, contrast operational workflows, evaluate their respective financial mechanics, and establish the definitive selection framework for your technical roadmap. Azure Virtual Desktop … Read more >>
A 300-person accounting firm called me in January with a familiar problem. Tax season was coming, remote staff needed secure desktops, and the aging on-premises RDS servers could not handle the load. The IT manager had two proposals on his desk: one from a Microsoft partner for Azure’s native service, the other from a Citrix … Read more >>
A Windows VM running an internal line-of-business app stops responding after Monday’s patching. Users see timeouts, the help desk is flooded, and someone on the team suggests “just rebooting it.” That is usually the right move, but I have also seen a rushed reboot take down a database mid-transaction and a pipeline run that targeted … Read more >>
Recently, I restored the Azure VM from the backup for one of my clients. We will discuss the complete steps as part of this article. How to restore VM from backup in Azure Well, now is the time to restore the backup. Azure backup provides multiple ways to restore the backup: Creating a new VM, … Read more >>
A junior engineer on one of my teams once ran a cleanup script against the wrong subscription. He had signed in days earlier, never checked which subscription was active, and the script started deleting “dev” resources in a shared environment. Nothing in the script was wrong. The problem was that nobody on the team understood … Read more >>