Give your Copilot agents real tools, without hand-wiring MCP
You’re running agents in the GitHub Copilot app - maybe three at once, each on its own branch, each working a task while you steer. It’s a good way to work, right…
Simplify AKS observability with Azure Native New Relic Service
An Azure Native path to New Relic Intelligent Observability for AKS AKS environments are dynamic by design. Applications can span clusters, namespaces, nodes, pods, and containers, while workloads scale and change continuously. Obtaining consistent…
Build a SAFE Agent on Microsoft Foundry
Use ACS to enforce Scope, Anchored Decisions, Flow Integrity, and Escalation while the agent runs, then prove the controls without model variance. Two sign-in failures, two correct outcomes A help desk agent…
New in Microsoft Marketplace: Offers published July 20-21, 2026
Learn about 447 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it…
From Detection to Action: Extending Azure Monitor Issues with Action Groups
When the Azure Copilot Observability Agent detects a problem, correlates related alerts, investigates and creates an Azure Monitor issue, it does more than identify what happened. It creates a durable record that brings…
Voice Live and Observability for Production Agent Systems Part 5/5
This is the fifth and final post in our series on the Microsoft agent platform. We cover two critical production concerns: Azure AI Voice Live for accessible, hands-free agent interaction, and observability, the tracing,…
Who Ordered All These Tokens? Giving AI Spend a Name in FOCUS
A pattern to steal, not a product to buy. Your CFO leans over and asks a reasonable question: "How much are we spending on Copilot versus the agents our own team built?"…
Expanding Open Model Choice in Microsoft Foundry with New DeepSeek and NVIDIA Nemotron Models
Open models are driving a new wave of AI innovation, giving organizations more freedom to choose the models that best fit their requirements for performance, cost, latency, customization, and governance. As the…
Announcing General Availability of Disable Multithreading and Configurable Constrained Cores
Today, we are announcing General Availability of two new capabilities: Disable Simultaneous Multithreading/Hyper-Threading (SMT/HT) and Configurable Constrained Cores. These features give customers control over virtual CPU configurations, enabling performance optimization and potential software licensing savings…
Building a Fully Automated Azure Landing Zone Deployment Using Azure DevOps and Terraform
What is an Azure Landing Zone? Think of an Azure Landing Zone as the foundation of a cloud environment. Before application teams deploy workloads, the Landing Zone establishes: Management Groups Subscriptions Networking…