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September (5)

ai: Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-09-24

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service now supports outbound network egress controls for hosted agents. You can define and attach an outbound policy, then monitor allowed and denied calls in Audit or Enforced mode.

ai: From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-09-24

Microsoft Foundry’s Routines feature is now generally available, adding event-driven and scheduled automation so agents can monitor work, react to business events, and continue tasks over time instead of only responding in chat.

ai: Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-09-15

Microsoft announced Foundry Dev Pack, an all-in-one installer that prepares a machine for Microsoft Foundry development. It installs the tools needed for use in the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents.

ai: Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 2607: Better Multilingual Accuracy, Easier Customization

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-09-10

Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 adds improved multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lower latency, and simpler domain-specific customization through enhanced phrase lists. The release focuses on accuracy and customization for speech recognition workloads.

ai: What’s new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-09-09

Microsoft Foundry’s July and August 2026 update adds stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools support on Azure-hosted deployments, and Model Router updates. It also notes local inference improvements and SDK migration items to review before upgrading.

August (3)

ai: From single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-17

Microsoft Foundry now supports five new Claude capabilities on Azure-hosted models: structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search. The update positions a model endpoint for agent-style workflows rather than single-call usage.

ai: From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding – August 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-12

Azure Content Understanding gained support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows, along with Sync APIs. The release focuses on helping developers extract structured, grounded data from enterprise content across documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video.

ai: Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-08-12

Azure Content Understanding is adding support for the GPT-5 series and updating grounding and confidence features. The change is intended to improve model selection flexibility, efficiency, and extraction quality across document, image, audio, and video content.

July (2)

ai: Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-07-22

Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry are presented as a way to let agents act on a user’s behalf while handling delegated identity across tools and services. The post highlights using a private Entra-protected MCP server alongside Microsoft’s managed Work IQ MCP server in the same agent flow.

ai: What’s New in Microsoft Foundry | June 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-07-07

Microsoft Foundry’s June 2026 update adds Claude GA and several agent-related features released between Build 2026 and the end of June. It also calls out autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, and Agent Optimizer entering private preview.