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MCP in Azure: Using API Management for Authentication, Access, Logging & Governance

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Kalaivanan
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Jul 22, 2026
If MCP is becoming the “USB-C for AI,” enterprises need something equally familiar on the other side of that port: a control plane. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI applications a standard w...
Updated Jun 30, 2026
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bjamming
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Aug 17, 2026

We have a third-party MCP server that only supports CIMD. It works with other MCP clients, but Copilot Studio does not appear to support CIMD authentication for MCP servers.

Is there a supported Microsoft pattern, using APIM or another Azure service, to bridge Copilot Studio to a CIMD-only MCP server while preserving per-user permissions? Or is native CIMD support planned for Copilot Studio?