Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
WSilveira curates the November 2025 Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter, spotlighting the latest news, technical breakthroughs, and expert contributions in Microsoft Azure integration, automation, AI, security, and DevOps.
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
Curated by WSilveira, this issue spotlights community expertise, product updates, and cutting-edge patterns for enterprise-grade integration and automation on Microsoft Azure. Dive into technical resources covering Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, CI/CD automation, security, AI agent development, and much more.
In this issue
- Ace Aviator of the Month: Al Ghoniem
- News from our product group
- News from our community
Ace Aviator of the Month
November’s Ace Aviator: Al Ghoniem (Senior Integration Consultant, ARINCO)
- Role & Responsibilities: Designs and delivers integrations using Logic Apps Standard, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure Functions. Drives reference architectures, reusable templates (Bicep, YAML), reliability, and cost-efficiency across projects. Mentors teams and fosters standardization and quality.
- Daily Activities: Works on architecture and solution patterns, builds reusable automation (Logic Apps, Bicep, pipelines), tackles challenging integration problems (faults, retries, monitoring), leads technical enablement, and shares insights with the community.
- Professional Growth: Leverages feedback loops (telemetry, post-incident reviews), creates reusable scaffolding (golden templates), emphasizes cross-discipline skills (architecture, DevOps, FinOps, AI), and believes in teaching and mentoring as a means to mastery.
- Wish List for Logic Apps: Proposes first-class “Stateful Sessions and Decisions”—built-in session management, native decisioning with auditing, and developer-first local workflows to empower complex orchestration scenarios.
News from our product group
- Logic Apps Community Day 2025: 10 sessions, deep dives, and 4+ hours of content from community experts. Replays and session highlights available throughout the week.
- Parse & Chunk with Metadata in Logic Apps: New actions support metadata-driven chunking, enabling context-aware Q&A/document workflows using Azure AI Search and Agent Loop.
- RabbitMQ Connector (Public Preview): Native RabbitMQ integration in Logic Apps Standard/Hybrid unlocks scalable messaging for modern solutions.
News from our community
Practical deep-dives, how-to guides, and expert tips from across the Azure Logic Apps ecosystem:
- EventGrid and Entra Auth in Logic Apps Standard (Riccardo Viglianisi) – Secure webhook authentication using Entra ID, ditching SAS tokens, and configuring private endpoints.
- Debugging XSLT Made Easy in VS Code (.NET-based) (Daniel Jonathan) – Bring breakpoints and variable inspection to XSLT workflows in Logic Apps using new debugging extensions.
- Modifying the Logic App Azure Workbook for Monitoring (Jeff Wessling) – Create custom KQL dashboards and multi-workflow views for better visibility and troubleshooting.
- Azure AI Agents in Logic Apps: Automate Decisions (Imashi Kinigama) – Utilize Logic Apps Agent Loop to build GPT-based agents for dynamic, automated integrations.
- How to Turn Logic App Connectors into MCP Servers (Stephen W. Thomas) – Expose Logic App connectors as MCP endpoints for real-time AI agent access via Azure API Center and VS Code.
- Custom SAP MCP Server with Logic Apps (Sebastian Meyer) – Guide to integrating SAP using Logic Apps and Easy Auth for secure automation.
- Accelerating AI Agent Development with Logic Apps MCP Servers (Monisha S) – Rapidly provision AI-driven integrations with Logic Apps Standard, MCP, and hybrid systems.
- Designing Business Rules in Azure Logic Apps (Al Ghoniem) – Explains rule engine selection, embedded/external rule trade-offs, and scalable decision automation in Azure workflows.
- Syncing SharePoint with Azure Blob Storage for Azure AI Search (Daniel Jonathan) – Metadata-driven cleanup and synchronization solutions with Logic Apps, custom Azure Functions, and AI Search.
- Step-by-Step: Building a Conversational Agent in Logic Apps (Stephen W. Thomas) – Use Azure AI Foundry and Logic Apps for chatbot development with easy web integration.
- Hiding Sensitive Data from Logic App Run History (Francisco Leal) – How to secure tokens, credentials, and personal information in Logic App executions for stronger privacy.
Featured Topics
- Integration Patterns with Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Event Grid, Service Bus
- Automation & DevOps: Bicep, CI/CD, YAML pipelines, monitoring, FinOps
- Security: Webhook authentication (Entra ID), data masking, private endpoints
- AI & Intelligent Automation: Azure AI Search, Agent Loop, GPT integration, RAG techniques
- Custom Connectors & MCP: Exposing services for AI agent orchestration
- Operations & Observability: Dashboards with KQL, run history auditing, scalable multi-workflow visibility
- Rules & Decisioning: Engine selection, embedded vs external, testable automation patterns
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Updated by WSilveira – November 02, 2025
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