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. Everythi...

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 promis...

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 ...

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...

Many discussions about Microsoft Foundry Agent Service eventually arrive at the same question: should this workload be implemented as a Prompt Agent or a Hosted Agent? While the documentation explain...

In May, I introduced the open-source Azure Architecture Diagram Builder as a way to move from a natural-language prompt to an Azure architecture diagram, cost estimate, Well-Architected assessment, a...

Audience: Cloud architects, platform engineers, engineering leaders The wrong first question Most teams building AI capabilities start with the wrong question. They ask which model to use. T...

1. The Core Mental Model: The Water Park Analogy To understand Copilot billing, think of your enterprise as a water park: The Shared Pool (Included Usage): Every Copilot Business ($19/mo) and E...

Introduction: The cheap-token trap Token prices alone are a poor economic model for agents. The price of reaching a fixed capability has fallen sharply — In a 2025 Report Stanford's AI Index report...

Why this matters Phased migrations to Azure frequently stall on a single, unglamorous constraint: an application with a hard-coded dependency address. The usual options are to re-address the applic...