We run SAP AI Lab — two of us, one in ML systems, the other in enterprise information systems. We're independent and not affiliated with SAP or Microsoft, which is exactly why we rebuild deployment runbooks from primary sources instead of trusting them: a blog post is a snapshot, and this area moves. Our findings below trace to Microsoft Learn pages last updated between October 2025 and August 2026, verified as of 2026-11-08. Last month we nearly got burned anyway.

az extension add --name azure-ha will fail, and it should

While checking a SAP HANA high-availability runbook line by line against Microsoft Learn, we searched the Azure CLI extension index for azure-ha — the extension several tutorials, blog posts, and (increasingly) AI-generated runbooks tell you to install. It does not exist. Nothing by that name ships in the index.…