If you have spent any time building with large language models in the last year, you have hit the same wall everyone hits: your model is brilliant at reasoning but blind to the real world. It cannot ...

Join us for a new 3-part livestream series where we take a deep technical look at Microsoft IQ, the knowledge layer for the next generation of AI experiences. You'll learn how Foundry IQ, Work IQ, an...

Why put API Management in front of your MCP servers The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard way for AI agents, such as GitHub Copilot in VS Code, to reach external tools an...

The number that changes the conversation Most "run an LLM locally" tutorials start with the model. This one starts with a bill. Every token a cloud LLM generates is metered. One request is roundi...

Microsoft announces the general availability of Microsoft’s Signing Transparency (MST) – a first-of-its-kind capability that brings unprecedented visibility and trust to our software supply chain. Wi...

How I put corporate sign-in in front of Claude Desktop without writing a single line of backend code. TL;DR — In this post, I show how to securely enable Claude Desktop in enterprise environments us...

The Problem: HTTP Triggers and Long-Running Jobs Don't Mix Here's a situation you've probably run into: you have a job that needs to loop over dozens of Azure resources, call APIs, and do real work...

Skills are an agent's must-have. So test them. A skill is the lightest way to give an agent durable, reusable behavior: a SKILL.md file you author once, store centrally in Foundry's versioned Skill...

Introduction Deploying an AI application to Azure Container Apps is fundamentally different from deploying a web API. When you containerize a Django REST API, the application starts in a few second...

Introduction There is a particular kind of frustration that comes not when your application fails to start, but when it starts too slowly. The container is running, the health probes pass, your mon...