Which Agent, on Whose Behalf? Authenticating MCP Tools in Microsoft Foundry
Four ways to authenticate an MCP tool in Foundry and the only one that keeps the user Last verified against Microsoft Learn on 19 October 2026. Foundry changes quickly, so check the linked docs before you rely on a detail. The problem in…
Read MoreFrom Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 4 — GenAIOps, Automated Evaluations and Observability with Microsoft Foundry
In our previous posts, From Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1: Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local, From Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 2: Tool Orchestration with the Model Context Protocol and From Edge to Enterprise Cloud:…
Read MoreFrom Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 3 — Cloud Migration and Enterprise Identity with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
In our previous posts, From Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1: Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local and From Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 2: Tool Orchestration with the Model Context Protocol, we established an offline,…
Read MoreFrom Edge to Enterprise Cloud: Part 2 — Tool Orchestration with the Model Context Protocol
In our first installment, From Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1: Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local, we established a completely offline, hardware-accelerated local loop using Microsoft Foundry Local. By embedding Small…
Read MoreFrom Edge to Enterprise-Cloud: Part 1 — Building a Cost-Free Local Loop with Foundry Local
In the fast-evolving landscape of Generative AI, developers are facing a silent productivity killer: feedback loop latency and unbudgeted cloud API costs. When building AI-driven agents, every tweak to a prompt, every revision of a system…
Read MoreExploring Microsoft Foundry Local
With the Public Preview of Microsoft Foundry Local, Microsoft is taking a serious step toward bringing production-grade AI inference onto local hardware. After spending several days working with the preview, it became clear that Foundry…
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