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Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework
When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is much simpler: where does the conversation history live?
Imagine a user asks your agent a complex question, clicks “try...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAzure MCP Server now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb)
Azure MCP Server is now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb), enabling one-click installation into Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible clients.
Read moreClick to read more about this postAzure Data Studio is retired: Move your Azure SQL workflow to VS Code in 10 minutes
Azure Data Studio (ADS) retired on February 6, 2025, and support ended on February 28, 2026. The recommended path forward is Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension. If you used ADS daily, this guide gets you productive quickly in VS Code. The focus is on importing your existing...
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Mar 17, 2026
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From 150 Unread to Zero Stress: Automating Inbox Triage with MCP and GitHub Copilot
Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow.
The Problem We All Share
If you work...
All things Azure
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure Skills Plugin - Let's Get Started!
Part 2 of the Azure Skills Plugin series
Previously: Announcing the Azure Skills Plugin
This post is all about getting you up and running. I won't go deep on capabilities, architecture or anything like that here - that's coming in future posts in this series. The goal is to...
All things Azure
Mar 17, 2026
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PowerToys 0.98 is here: new Keyboard Manager UX, the Command Palette Dock and better CursorWrap!
We're back with a fresh PowerToys release – PowerToys 0.98! This month introduces the new Command Palette Dock, along with a refreshed Keyboard Manager experience and many other improvements across the utilities. You can grab the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or by...
Windows Command Line
Mar 17, 2026
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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI
Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.
.NET Blog
Mar 17, 2026
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Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Plugin for Cursor
We're excited to announce the Cursor plugin for Azure Cosmos DB bringing AI-powered database expertise, best practices guidance, and live database connectivity directly into your coding workflow.
Whether you're designing a new data model, optimizing queries, or building a RAG...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 17, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386, second try
Appeasing the invisible return address predictor.
The Old New Thing
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)
When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for services...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations
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The next-gen Foundry Agent Service is generally available today with end-to-end private networking, Voice Live integration, expanded MCP authentication, GA evaluations with continuous monitoring, and hosted agent deployments in six new Azure regions.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
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