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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Self-serve custom photo avatar creation in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry has generally available self-serve custom photo avatar creation in the Foundry NextGen fine-tuning portal. It is aimed at enterprise customers building voice agents or avatar-and-speech content who need a branded avatar.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Belgium Central

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Azure Belgium Central. This adds a new European region for fully managed OpenShift deployments on Azure.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent-to-agent (A2A) support for Prompt agents and Hosted agents in Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service now supports agent-to-agent (A2A) communication in public preview for Prompt agents and Hosted agents using the responses protocol. Agents can invoke other agents by name through a managed endpoint with identity and content safety controls.

azure: [Launched] Public Preview: TextPII NextGen Playground updates in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry’s public preview TextPII NextGen Playground has been updated with a refreshed API Configuration Panel and preview features introduced at Ignite 2025. Developers can use it to test predefined PII categories and redaction behavior.

azure: [Launched] Public Preview: Conversational PII NextGen Playground in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry has added a public preview Conversational PII NextGen Playground. It accepts transcript input and includes an API Configuration Panel so developers can validate PII detection in multi-speaker dialogue before integration.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Foundry for Visual Studio Code (June Build 2026 refresh)

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry for Visual Studio Code is now generally available with a Build 2026 refresh. The update adds the full model catalog, model playground, and Hosted agent deployment directly in the editor.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Custom Voice portal experience in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure AI Speech's Custom Voice authoring experience is now generally available in the Microsoft Foundry portal. Approved customers can upload voice talent recordings and consent statements, run data quality checks, and train neural voices in the portal.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Rubric evaluator in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry now offers rubric evaluators in public preview for single-turn and multi-turn agent flows. They let developers define context-specific evaluation criteria with agent prompts for assessing agent quality.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Observability developer experience in Azure Developer CLI (azd)

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Developer CLI (azd) now has a public preview for observability developer experience, aimed at adding an evaluation loop to agents created with Microsoft Foundry. The preview supports hosted-agent lifecycle workflows in azd, including creating, provisioning, deploying, and initializing evaluation assets.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Evaluations with Intelligent Trace Sampling

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry observability now supports intelligent trace filtering and sampling for evaluations in public preview. It evaluates a representative subset of production traces instead of all traces.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Domain filter for specialized model discovery in Foundry model catalog

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry model catalog now includes a domain filter in public preview. It helps users narrow the catalog of more than 1,900 models by industry or use case.

azure: [In development] Announcing: Confidential Live Migration for Intel TDX confidential VMs in Azure

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft is introducing Confidential Live Migration in Azure for Intel TDX Confidential VMs. The feature is intended to support platform servicing by moving confidential VMs while preserving availability.