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Azure 25 September 2026

From Camera to Canvas: How Multimodal GenAI Automates Shop Floor Instructions

Scenario Across the industry, manufacturing organizations spend significant engineering effort converting tribal knowledge and assembly demonstrations into standardized work instructions. This…

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Azure 24 September 2026

Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization

The best model for your business will keep changing. Adopting it should move your business forward, not send your team back to rebuild the architecture around it. The post Ship agents faster with…

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Azure 23 September 2026

Your architecture diagram is not your resilience

For years, resilience was something you set up once. That kept the lights on, but it treated resilience as a project with an end date rather than a property you maintain. The post Your architecture…

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Azure 23 September 2026

Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work

The organizations pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to what they already have. They are designing for a different kind of software. The post Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when…

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Azure 22 September 2026

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks. The post GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For…

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Azure 22 September 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information,…

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Azure 18 September 2026

Foundry IQ with D365F&O and Fabric IQ

Business Scenario A retail organization runs multiple promotional sales events across its store network in different cities, featuring various product categories where Data is captured from…

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Azure 17 September 2026

Agent experience with data in Onelake using Fabric IQ

Business Scenario A retail organization runs multiple promotional sales events across its store network in different cities, featuring various product categories. Data is captured from: Third-party…

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Azure 17 September 2026

Foundry IQ with D365F&O and Fabric IQ

Business Scenario A retail organization runs multiple promotional sales events across its store network in different cities, featuring various product categories where Data is captured from…

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Azure 16 September 2026

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Gartner highlighted Microsoft’s unified single-product architecture, flexibility across hyperconverged and disaggregated architectures, and more. The post Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026…

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Azure 15 September 2026

Closing the Recruiting Context Gap with Microsoft Foundry

A recruiter receives a detailed job description for a senior engineer working on a payments platform. It explains the required skills, the business domain, and the experience that would be useful.…

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Azure 14 September 2026

Microsoft Foundry Observability: How to Trace, Evaluate, Monitor, and Secure AI Agents

The green check that hid a real problem During a recent customer conversation, I was shown a customer-service refund agent that looked healthy by every traditional measure. Requests completed…

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Azure 11 September 2026

AI Agent ROI Framework

Introduction AI agents are rapidly becoming a core component of enterprise transformation strategies. Organizations are deploying agents to assist employees, automate business processes, improve…

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Azure 11 September 2026

Building on AI Landing Zones: Operationalizing Enterprise AI with the Citadel Architecture

From AI Foundations to a Shared Operating Model In my previous article, AI Azure Landing Zone: Shared Capabilities and Models to Enable AI as a Platform, I explored how organizations establish…

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Azure 11 September 2026

From OSDU to Ontology: Why Oil & Gas AI Readiness Lives at the Meaning Layer

The five-answer problem Ask a simple question inside a large operator: “How is this asset producing against plan, and what’s the constraint?” Now watch five systems answer five different things. The…

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Azure 10 September 2026

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. Discover how AKS, Azure Arc, and Azure Container Apps help organizations run AI and hybrid workloads at…

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Azure 10 September 2026

The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run…

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Azure 10 September 2026

The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization

Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations. The post The future of infrastructure…

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Azure 9 September 2026

Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads

Zone resiliency isn't a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn't “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss of one?” Decide zone…

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Azure 8 September 2026

Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple…

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Azure 4 September 2026

Your Private Endpoint Does Not Cover Agent Egress: Locking Down Azure AI Foundry in Both Directions

I got asked a question a few weeks ago that sounded simple. Lock down Azure AI Foundry with Private Link, and let the agents call an MCP server hosted on a VM in a different virtual network.…

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Azure 3 September 2026

Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. The post…

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Azure 3 September 2026

GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming…

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Azure 3 September 2026

Building 3IQ Retail Assistant Demo – Part 1

Introduction Recently I received a request from one of our GSI partners to demonstrate them 4IQs on a retail industry scenario. Unfortunately, Web IQ is still not in public preview. Hence, I promised…

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Azure 3 September 2026

Building 3IQ Retail Assistant Demo – Part 2

In part 1 while setting up the Azure environment, I informed the template puts everything under VNET and all the services are having only private endpoints. Which is great from the security point of…

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Azure 3 September 2026

Building 3IQ Retail Assistant Demo – Part 3

We are now at the last part of our demo. We will build a Copilot Agent to connect it to a SharePoint List holding data related to Support case raised by the customers. Then connect the other 2 agents…

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Azure 3 September 2026

How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop

Learn how Microsoft used Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop to simplify hybrid security operations, improve visibility, and scale globally. The post How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering…

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Azure 2 September 2026

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents

AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent…

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Azure 31 August 2026

Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS

Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more streamlined, cloud-native…

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Azure 31 August 2026

Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI

AI is helping organizations meet high expectations as markets change quickly and technology advances at a rapid pace. The post Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI appeared…

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