Microsoft Foundry

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Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and operating AI applications and agents with model catalog, agent service, tools, evaluation and observability; formerly Azure AI Foundry.

Sessions on this topic (14)

• Agent, Identity, and AI Model: Governance, Lifecycle, and Support · Isha Kapoor · M365Con 2027
• Foundry Local: Building and Running AI on Your Own Machine · Håkan Silfvernagel · M365Con 2027
• Microsoft Foundry for IT Pros: From Zero to Your First Production AI Agent · Jannik Reinhard · M365Con 2027
• MCP + Microsoft Foundry: Connecting AI Agents to the Enterprise · Smita Nachan, Nanddeep Nachan · M365Con 2027
• Your Tenant, Your Model: Running GitHub Copilot on Microsoft Foundry · Matthias Liebeck · M365Con 2027
• Build in Microsoft Foundry, Run in Logic Apps: Agentic Automation for Enterprises · Rafsan Huseynov · M365Con 2027
• From AI Agents to Governed Digital Workers: Microsoft Agent 365, Foundry & Purview · Karthikeyan VK · M365Con 2027
• Agent, Identity, and AI Model: Governance, Lifecycle, and Support · Isha Kapoor · M365Con 2027
• Foundry Local: Building and Running AI on Your Own Machine · Håkan Silfvernagel · M365Con 2027
• Microsoft Foundry for IT Pros: From Zero to Your First Production AI Agent · Jannik Reinhard · M365Con 2027
• MCP + Microsoft Foundry: Connecting AI Agents to the Enterprise · Smita Nachan, Nanddeep Nachan · M365Con 2027
• Your Tenant, Your Model: Running GitHub Copilot on Microsoft Foundry · Matthias Liebeck · M365Con 2027
• Build in Microsoft Foundry, Run in Logic Apps: Agentic Automation for Enterprises · Rafsan Huseynov · M365Con 2027
• From AI Agents to Governed Digital Workers: Microsoft Agent 365, Foundry & Purview · Karthikeyan VK · M365Con 2027

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Related topics in brief

• Microsoft · Developed by · Organization
  Microsoft Corporation is a technology company that develops software and cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365.
• Microsoft tool · Is a · Category
  A software product or service developed by Microsoft.
• Developer tool · Is a · Category
  A tool that helps developers write, test and ship software.
• Microsoft Azure · Part of · Platform
  Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform with services for computing, storage, networking, databases, analytics and AI.
• Azure AI Foundry · Related to · Platform
  Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and deploying AI applications and agents. It offers a catalogue of models, tools for grounding and safety, and deployment options on Azure.
• Foundry Agent Service · Related to · Product
  Managed service in Microsoft Foundry for hosting AI agents with threads, tool calling, knowledge, MCP servers and enterprise security.
• Foundry Local · Related to · Product
  Runtime and CLI for running AI models locally on a PC or device with an OpenAI-compatible API, without sending data to the cloud.
• AI agent · Related to · Concept
  A software system that uses an AI model to pursue a goal on its own: it plans steps, calls tools or APIs, reads data and acts, often with a human approving critical steps. Agents go beyond chatbots because they take actions, not just answer questions.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Related to · Concept
  An open protocol that lets AI applications connect to tools and data sources in a standard way. An MCP server exposes capabilities, and any compatible agent can discover and call them.
• Azure OpenAI Service · Related to · Product
  A service that provides OpenAI models such as GPT through Azure with enterprise security and compliance.
• GitHub Copilot · Related to · Product
  An AI coding assistant that suggests code, explains it, writes tests and, in agent mode, carries out multi-step changes in a repository under the developer's review.
• Azure Logic Apps · Related to · Product
  Cloud integration service of Azure for building workflows and agentic automation with hundreds of connectors, triggers and actions; the Azure counterpart to Power Automate.
• Microsoft Agent 365 · Related to · Product
  Control plane for observing, governing and securing AI agents across an organisation, with agent registry, identity, access control and monitoring built on Entra, Purview and Defender.
• Agent observability · Related to · Concept
  Collecting traces, metrics, evaluations and audit data of AI agents to see what they did, why, and at what cost.

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