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Sep 10, 2026AI

Azure API Management MCP: The Control Plane for Agent Tools

MCP makes it easy to connect an AI agent to tools. That is useful for a demo, but an enterprise needs more than a connection string. It needs identity, a controlled tool surface, rate limits, monitoring and a clear owner. In this blog post I show how I would use Azure API Management MCP as the control plane between agents and enterprise tools.

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Sep 3, 2026Intune

Detect and Block Shadow AI with Intune: OpenClaw in Practice

Local AI agents are moving from developer experiments to normal Windows endpoints. They can read files, call tools and act with the permissions of the signed-in user. That makes them useful, but it also creates a new blind spot for endpoint teams. In this blog post I show how the new Intune Shadow AI controls can discover local agents such as OpenClaw, give you useful inventory data and help you decide what to control.

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Aug 27, 2026AI

Work IQ API: Query Microsoft 365 Data With AI

Your Microsoft 365 tenant already contains the context that many AI agents are missing: meetings, email, Teams conversations, documents, people and decisions. The hard part is not generating another answer. The hard part is giving an agent the right work context without building a second data platform or bypassing Microsoft 365 permissions. This is exactly where the Work IQ API becomes interesting. Microsoft currently provides Work IQ as a public preview across CLI, MCP, A2A and REST experiences. In this guide I focus on the path that is easiest to test: install the official package, connect the MCP server and ask useful questions against your own Microsoft 365 context. I also cover the part that matters in an enterprise: tenant enablement, user permissions, tool boundaries and a rollout that starts read-only.

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Aug 25, 2026Automation

Desk Setup 2026: Every Product I Use and What I Would Skip

After my post about the Oakywood Standing Desk Pro, many of you asked what else is on my desk. This is my complete desk setup 2026: the hardware I use every day, why I chose it and what I would not buy again. This is not a list of products that look good in a photo. My desk is where I write, code, record videos, join calls and prepare community sessions. Every item must remove friction from that work. I will also explain where I would start if I had to build the setup again with a smaller budget. Sponsored-product disclosure: Oakywood provided the Standing Desk Pro and the Oakywood accessories shown in this article free of charge as part of a sponsored collaboration. I did not pay for these products. Oakywood did not approve or edit my verdicts, and all opinions and trade-offs are my own. I bought every non-Oakywood product in this article myself.

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Aug 20, 2026AI

Fabric Data Agents: Chat With Your Data in OneLake

Every company has the same gap: the data sits in lakehouses and semantic models, and the people with questions cannot write SQL or DAX. In this blog post I explain what a Fabric data agent is and how you build one. A Fabric data agent is the conversational analytics piece of Microsoft Fabric — your colleagues ask questions in plain English, and the agent generates and runs the queries against your governed data in OneLake.

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Aug 18, 2026AI

Agent Skills vs MCP: When to Use Which for AI Agents

In February I wrote about why CLI tools are beating MCP for AI agents. It became my most read post so far, and one follow-up question came up again and again: "Okay, and where do Agent Skills fit in?" That is a fair question, because Skills vs MCP is not an either-or decision. They solve different problems, and they work well together. In this blog post I explain the difference, compare the context cost, and give you a simple decision guide for when to use which.

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Aug 13, 2026Automation

Claude Code in GitHub Actions: Automate Standard Tasks

Most of us use AI coding agents interactively: you sit in the terminal, type a prompt, and watch the agent work. But a lot of the work in a repository is not interactive at all. Reviewing pull requests, triaging new issues, writing release notes, updating documentation — these are standard tasks that repeat every week. In this blog post I show you how to run Claude Code inside your GitHub pipelines with Claude Code GitHub Actions, so these tasks run automatically while you do something else.

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Aug 11, 2026AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Foundry: A Deep Dive

One agent alone rarely solves a real business process. As soon as you build something serious, you want a triage agent, a specialist for your knowledge base, maybe one that creates tickets — and something that coordinates them. In this blog post I do a deep dive into multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry. I explain how the story changed three times within one year, how the Microsoft Agent Framework patterns work, and which pattern I would choose for which scenario. At the end you will know exactly where to build your orchestration today so that it does not get deprecated next year. I already wrote about building your first agent in Microsoft Foundry. This post is the next step: making several agents work together.

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Aug 7, 2026AI

My Agentic OS: How I Run Notion, Outlook, Codex and OneDrive

I do not need another AI chat window. I need an agentic operating system that knows where my work starts, where every result belongs and which actions still require me. That difference sounds small, but it is the reason my daily setup keeps working even as I add more agents, repositories, documents and content channels. My current system connects Notion, Outlook, Codex, reusable skills, OneDrive, GitHub and scheduled automations. Codex is my primary execution layer. Claude Code gives me a second coding path when its strengths fit the task better or when I need to distribute a long coding day across both subscriptions. Notion gives me the working context for the day. Outlook owns communication and time. OneDrive remains the system of record for documents and media, while GitHub owns code. The tools are not interchangeable, and that is the point. This post is not a list of apps I like. It is the operating model I use every day: how work enters the system, how I choose what matters, how an agent gets the right instructions, where the output is stored and where I deliberately keep a human approval step.

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Aug 6, 2026Intune

Security Copilot Agents in Intune: What You Get in 2026

Microsoft is bringing AI agents into more and more admin portals. In this blog post I explain the Security Copilot agents in Intune: the Policy Configuration Agent, the Change Review Agent, and the new Vulnerability Remediation Agent. I show what each agent actually does, how you can enable them, and what you should watch out for. I also cover an important licensing change: Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 tenants get Security Copilot capacity included at no additional cost.

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Aug 5, 2026AI

Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment: A Practical Guide

Seeing a model in the Microsoft Foundry catalog is not the same as having a model that an application can use. The bridge is the deployment. Think of it as the saved, named configuration that your app talks to. Your code does not call a vague catalog entry; it calls the deployment name you create. That makes the portal form more important than it looks. It connects a model, a deployment type and a name that people and code will depend on. In this post I explain those three choices in plain English before you put a model behind an agent or an application. The video below shows the practical deployment path in German. Here I add the questions that are easy to miss while the portal is open — and a simple path for a first deployment.

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Aug 4, 2026AI

Foundry IQ Deep Dive: Knowledge Bases for AI Agents

Every team that builds AI agents ends up building the same thing: a retrieval pipeline that feeds company knowledge into the agent. And most of these pipelines are built again and again, per agent, per project. Foundry IQ is Microsoft's answer to this problem — a shared knowledge layer in Microsoft Foundry that any number of agents can plug into. In this blog post I explain how Foundry IQ works under the hood, how you create a knowledge base and wire it into an agent, and where the limits are. At the end you can decide if it should replace your custom RAG setup.

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All Intune, AI and Azure Blog Posts

Azure API Management MCP: The Control Plane for Agent Tools

Detect and Block Shadow AI with Intune: OpenClaw in Practice

Work IQ API: Query Microsoft 365 Data With AI

Desk Setup 2026: Every Product I Use and What I Would Skip

Fabric Data Agents: Chat With Your Data in OneLake

Agent Skills vs MCP: When to Use Which for AI Agents

Claude Code in GitHub Actions: Automate Standard Tasks

Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Foundry: A Deep Dive

My Agentic OS: How I Run Notion, Outlook, Codex and OneDrive

Security Copilot Agents in Intune: What You Get in 2026

Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment: A Practical Guide

Foundry IQ Deep Dive: Knowledge Bases for AI Agents

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