I write about building secure AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and connecting them to enterprise data and tools. These guides cover implementation choices, access control, retrieval, evaluation and operation.Start with Microsoft Foundry project setup, follow the model deployment guide, or compare Agent Skills and MCP. The articles below cover the next implementation decisions.
An MCP server is easy to connect, but an enterprise still needs identity, limits, monitoring and a clear tool boundary. In this blog post I use a live Azure API Management instance to show how I…
Read article: Azure API Management MCP: The Control Plane for Agent Tools
Work IQ gives AI assistants governed access to Microsoft 365 context. This practical guide covers the current public preview, prerequisites, CLI setup, MCP tools, security boundaries and first useful prompts.
In this blog post I explain what Fabric data agents are and how you build one. A Fabric data agent lets your colleagues ask plain-English questions about the data in OneLake — and it answers with…
Read article: Fabric Data Agents: Chat With Your Data in OneLake
My post about CLI tools vs MCP became my most successful post so far, and one follow-up question came up again and again: where do Agent Skills fit in? In this blog post I compare Skills…
Read article: Agent Skills vs MCP: When to Use Which for AI Agents
In this blog post I show you how to run Claude Code inside your GitHub pipelines. With the official GitHub Action you can answer @claude mentions in issues, review every pull request automatically, and automate recurring…
Read article: Claude Code in GitHub Actions: Automate Standard Tasks
In this blog post I explain how multi-agent orchestration works in Microsoft Foundry today. I show why connected agents and portal workflows are going away, how the Microsoft Agent Framework patterns work, and which orchestration pattern…
Read article: Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Foundry: A Deep Dive
I show how my agentic operating system connects Notion, Outlook, Codex, OneDrive, GitHub, reusable skills and schedules with human review.
Read article: My Agentic OS: How I Run Notion, Outlook, Codex and OneDrive
In this blog post I take a look at the Security Copilot agents in the Intune admin center. I explain what the Policy Configuration Agent, the Change Review Agent, and the new Vulnerability Remediation Agent do…
Read article: Security Copilot Agents in Intune: What You Get in 2026
A beginner-friendly Microsoft Foundry model deployment guide: choose a model, name the deployment and test the right fit before an app uses it.
Read article: Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment: A Practical Guide
In this blog post I take a deep look at Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer in Microsoft Foundry. I explain how knowledge bases and agentic retrieval work, how to connect them to an agent via MCP,…
Read article: Foundry IQ Deep Dive: Knowledge Bases for AI Agents
