Rick Claus and Sonia Cuff switch Azure Copilot into agent mode and watch it troubleshoot a VM that won’t accept an SSH connection. The agent reasons through the symptoms, calls out to different tools to interrogate the system, pinpoints invalid entries in the fstab file, and hands back CLI commands you can review and paste into P and permissions), why the chat history matters for team handoffs, and how this differs from wading through search results. Agent mode is in preview and takes an extra opt-in on top of enabling Azure Copilot. From Update and Restart, the show that checks your career for updates, downloads, and applies them.
Watch the full episode of Update & Restart here: https://youtu.be/bYF5Ifcmmms
🎙️ Speakers
Rick Claus — Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
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Sonia Cuff — Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
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Update & Restart is a practical series for IT professionals navigating how AI fits into real-world infrastructure, operations, and troubleshooting. Hosted by Rick Claus and Sonia Cuff, the series cuts through hype to show how tools like Azure Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot work in real environments—where security, reliability, and production constraints still matter.
Each episode combines hands-on demos, real scenarios, and practical advice to help IT pros understand what AI can actually do today, when to trust it, and how to adopt it responsibly without breaking systems or workflows.
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