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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP toolkit for Azure DocumentDB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure DocumentDB adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in public preview. The MCP toolkit lets AI agents and LLM-powered apps connect directly to a DocumentDB database for natural-language querying and document retrieval.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP Server Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports external MCP servers as federated knowledge sources in public preview. This lets teams connect sources from systems like Salesforce, Atlassian, and Confluence without indexing all data themselves.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MAI-Transcribe-1.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry has added MAI-Transcribe-1.5 to its model catalog in public preview. The speech-to-text model is described as next generation and offers improved accuracy with a lower word error rate on long-tail locales compared with the previous version.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MAI-Image-2.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry has added MAI-Image-2.5 to the model catalog in public preview. It is described as the next generation of Microsoft’s in-house image generation model, with improvements in photorealism, prompt fidelity, and generation speed over MAI-Image-2.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Knowledge as a Service with Azure Logic Apps.

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Logic Apps is introducing a public preview aimed at simplifying RAG by providing “Knowledge as a Service.” The update says teams can avoid building and operating the full ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector store, and retrieval stack themselves.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing AI Assistant in the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code now includes a public preview AI Assistant. It lets users ask questions in plain English to generate optimized Azure Cosmos DB queries and use chat participant commands.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Integrated embeddings for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now has integrated embeddings in public preview. It can automatically generate and maintain embeddings for data, removing the need for a separate embedding pipeline.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Incremental SharePoint permissions sync for Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ Knowledge Sources now support incremental SharePoint permissions sync in public preview. This keeps document-level, site, and library ACLs up to date as SharePoint permissions change.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Image serving in Foundry IQ knowledge bases

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Foundry IQ knowledge bases in public preview can now return document-extracted images at query time. During ingestion, images such as figures, screenshots, and diagrams are extracted from PDFs, slides, and Office files and stored alongside the source text.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Go language support on Azure Functions

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Functions now supports Go as a first-class language option in public preview. Developers can build event-driven serverless apps in Go using the Azure Functions Go programming model and SDK.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Foundry Memory preview refresh

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft refreshed the Foundry Memory public preview with a redesigned storage model, new retrieval controls, and tighter integration with the Foundry Agent Service tool surface. Agents can now use Memory to write, search, and update user-scoped data.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Deployment Templates support packaging deployment configurations in registries for curated deployment

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Machine Learning deployment templates now support public preview deployments from registries. This expands the registries that can be used as the source for a templated deployment.