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2025 (12)

November (10)

ai: Announcing Azure Language in Foundry Tools for deterministic, privacy-first agents

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-20

Microsoft announced the integration of Azure Language into Foundry Tools to support building enterprise-grade agents that emphasize deterministic behavior and stronger privacy protections. The update is positioned to help teams create predictable, secure agentic applications with tighter integration across their AI stack.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Marketplace

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Marketplace, a consolidated storefront for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents, is now generally available worldwide after its initial U.S. launch in September; traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is being redirected to the new Marketplace.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Foundry one-click deploy channels in Teams, M365 and non-Microsoft

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry is in public preview with a one-click, no-code publishing feature that lets organizations deploy custom agents to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and non-Microsoft channels, removing pro-code deployment complexity and enabling instant reach to large user bases.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Foundry IQ by Azure AI Search

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Foundry IQ, now in public preview and powered by Azure AI Search, is a knowledge system that lets agents access and ground on enterprise data through a single unified knowledge base, eliminating the need to manage multiple source-specific APIs.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Enrich agents with a unified catalog of prebuilt and custom tools in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry (public preview) introduces a unified catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools that let developers enrich agents with real-time business context, multimodal capabilities, and custom business logic.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Built-in memory in Foundry Agent Service

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure's Foundry Agent Service introduces built-in long-term memory (Public Preview). Integrated into the Foundry runtime, this persistent memory layer gives developers a scalable, robust foundation so agents can remember, adapt, and act coherently across sessions and workflows.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Copilot brings new intelligent agents to support end-to-end lifecycle management of workloads

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Copilot introduces specialized agents (gated preview) to support end-to-end lifecycle management for migrating, operating, and modernizing workloads anywhere. The Copilot experience also evolves from chat into an immersive, full-screen command center (public preview) powered by GPT-5 reasoning and artifact-generation capabilities.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent mitigations and guardrail customization

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft is previewing agent-level guardrails in the Foundry Control Plane (formerly content filters) that let you apply and customize safety controls per agent to help mitigate prompt-injection and other risks.

security: Agents built into your workflow: Get Security Copilot with Microsoft 365 E5

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced at Ignite 2025 that Security Copilot is being integrated into Microsoft 365 E5, introducing agents built into security workflows to help teams move from reactive incident response to more proactive, strategic protection.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure MCP Server

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure MCP Server is now generally available. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it provides a secure, standards-based bridge that lets agent-based applications and developer workflows access and coordinate across Azure services (examples called out include AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, and AI Foundry). The GA release is aimed at simplifying integration, improving security and interoperability, and enabling cloud-powered agents.

October (1)

ai: The Developer’s Guide to Smarter Fine-tuning: Unlock custom AI for every business challenge

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-10-14

Azure AI Foundry provides a streamlined platform for smarter, faster, and more accessible fine-tuning so developers can customize models for practical business problems — from reasoning agents to adaptive tools and scalable workflows — accompanied by best practices, hands-on resources, and recent innovations to accelerate development, testing, and deployment.

September (1)

github: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is in public preview for Copilot coding agent

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Copilot’s asynchronous coding agent now supports Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5. The integration is available in public preview and connects Copilot coding agent with Anthropic’s most advanced model for coding and real‑world agent tasks.