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November (7)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure API Management adds support for A2A Agent APIs

Azure Updates

2025-11-19

Azure API Management now publicly previews support for A2A (agent) APIs. This enables organizations to manage and govern agent APIs alongside AI model APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and traditional APIs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions. MCP is a protocol that lets applications provide capabilities and context to large language models, including defining tools that AI agents can call. The new trigger makes it easier to expose Azure Functions as MCP tools so LLM-based agents can invoke serverless operations directly.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Self-hosted remote MCP servers on Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced a public preview that lets you host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with MCP SDKs on Azure Functions, enabling easier self-hosting and integration with the Functions platform.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Dynamic sessions shell environment and MCP support in Azure Container Apps

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps announced a public preview of dynamic shell sessions — platform-managed, built-in containers that provide isolated, sandboxed environments to run and execute common shell commands. The update also adds MCP support.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints using Azure API Management

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure API Management (APIM) now generally supports governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints. The GA release brings APIM's governance, security, and observability capabilities to AI-driven workloads, enabling enterprises to manage and monitor MCP endpoints through existing APIM controls.

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: [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)

devops+ai: 🔥Fixing MCP Tool Name Collisions When Using Multiple MCP Servers

Let's do DevOps

2025-10-28

The article explains why multiple MCP servers often all register a tool named "search", causing name collisions when a client aggregates tools from more than one server, and gives short-term and long-term fixes (namespacing, unique IDs, client-side resolution changes, or upstream fixes).

September (3)

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update

GitHub

2025-09-30

The September 2025 GitHub Copilot update for Visual Studio adds new Profiler and .NET Modernization agents, enhances MCP interactions, and introduces smarter code review capabilities to speed debugging, modernization, and developer workflows.

security: Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-09-30

Microsoft Sentinel is expanding into an agentic security platform: the Sentinel data lake is generally available, and Sentinel graph plus the Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server are available in public preview to enable richer data, graph-based analysis, and model-aware agentic workflows for defenders.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Azure API Management

Azure Updates

2025-09-03

Azure API Management is in public preview with expanded support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), adding MCP support in v2 SKUs and the ability to expose existing MCP-compliant servers to simplify connecting APIs and AI agents.

May (1)

azure: [In preview] Generally Available: Model Context Protocol support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center

Azure Updates

2025-05-23

Azure announced the public preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center, enabling enterprises to transform existing APIs into dynamic, agent-ready tools while improving security and simplifying integration and consumption. (Original content was truncated.)