David has over two decades of architecture and delivery experience across Fortune 1000 and public sector enterprises with Avanade, Booz Allen Hamilton, and EMC.
Prior to Directions, David spent ten years at Avanade where he led global and regional engineering teams and advised on technology strategy and adoption.
Latest Content by David Berry
In Brief
July 20, 2026 · by David Berry
Restricted SharePoint Search Retiring Jan. 2027
Restricted SharePoint Search will retire by Jan. 2027, requiring transition to Restricted Content Discovery
Roadmap
Updated: July 13, 2026 · by David Berry
IoT Services and Software
Microsoft's IoT strategy is shifting from individual IoT services toward a unified edge platform
Roadmap
Updated: July 13, 2026 · by David Berry
Static Web Apps
Static Web Apps appears to be entering a maintenance and rationalization phase
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Functions Roadmap
Functions is becoming part of Microsoft's broader strategy for AI-enabled enterprises.
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft's enterprise AI engineering and MLOps platform
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
App Service
Azure App Service remains Microsoft’s “default PaaS” for production Web apps, APIs, and AI-connected business services.
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Service Bus Roadmap
Service Bus remains strategically important as Microsoft's transactional messaging backbone
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI service enables developers to use large language models (LLMs) developed by OpenAI
Roadmap
July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Foundry Models
Foundry Models is Microsoft’s service for accessing and managing AI models from Microsoft and other providers
Analyst Report
Updated: July 1, 2026 · by David Berry
Restricted SharePoint Search Limits Copilot Results
Retiring Jan. 2027 - New SharePoint search restrictions can help organizations roll out Copilot.