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and join the technical community to build what comes next.

Find more information at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/actioning-agentic-ai-5-ways-to-build-with-news-from-microsoft-ignite-2025/.
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
and Azure Integrated HSM.

Announcements are starting points—register for Microsoft AI Dev Days (Dec 10–11, 2025), attend AI Tour workshops,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
and Operations Center at no extra cost.

Azure hardware: limitless power and security.

NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs featured on the 'Frontier Street' activation, plus Azure Cobalt 200 CPU, Azure Boost DPU,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
and troubleshooting.

The migration agent scans environments and auto-generates infrastructure-as-code templates to accelerate modernization.

Available in the Portal, CLI,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
and sub-ms multi-zone commit latencies.

Built-in DiskANN vector indexing enables semantic search where the data lives.

Azure Copilot: agents change the game.

New specialized agents span migration, deployment, observability, optimization, resiliency,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Postgres-compatible service built for cloud-native and AI workloads: up to 3x transactional throughput, auto-scaling to 128TB, scale-out to 3,072 vCores,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
powered by Azure AI Search.

Pre-configured knowledge bases and policy-aware retrieval make agentic AI practical—cutting schema mapping, data wrangling, and prompt-engineering headaches.

Azure HorizonDB: PostgreSQL power.

Previewed as a fully managed,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
and performance.

Azure now supports both Claude and GPT frontier models with enterprise-grade security.

IQ Revolution: semantic understanding that works.

Foundry IQ and Fabric IQ streamline knowledge retrieval across SharePoint, Fabric, and the web,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Claude comes to Microsoft Foundry: choice for builders.

The community lit up about Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus arriving in Foundry alongside OpenAI GPT models.

Developers wanted model choice to evaluate tone, safety,
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric.

Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco and 200,000 joined digitally to explore the future of cloud and AI.

Online reactions and technical community conversations show how quickly announcements become action—building solutions for billions.
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Built for real industries — finance, healthcare, manufacturing, customer support — with use cases in analytics and decision support, app modernization, ETL auditing, and context‑aware assistants.

Start building enterprise agents in Microsoft Foundry today.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Enterprise success requires structured outputs, reliable tool use, and guardrails.

GPT‑5.2 in Foundry delivers multi‑step logical chains, context‑aware planning across large inputs, agentic end‑to‑end execution, and enterprise safety/governance.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Two flavors: GPT-5.2 — the advanced reasoning model for harder problems, better information work, and polished spreadsheets/slides; GPT-5.2‑Chat — an efficient workhorse for info‑seeking, technical writing, learning, and career guidance.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
GPT-5.2 introduces deeper logical chains, richer context handling, and agentic execution that prompts shippable artifacts: design docs, runnable code, unit tests, and deployment scripts produced with far fewer iterations.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry — a frontier model series purpose-built for enterprise developers and technical leaders, setting a new standard for a new era of AI.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The age of AI small talk is over.

Enterprise apps demand more than clever chat — they need a reliable reasoning partner that solves ambiguous, high‑stakes problems, plans multi‑agent workflows, and delivers auditable code.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
and the full Azure partner updates—stay connected via Microsoft Partner channels and the Azure News tag.

Find more information at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/article/azure-updates-december-2025.
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
vector indexing, and deep AI/analytics integration for mission-critical apps.

Resale enabled offers are available across most Marketplace regions, enabling channel-led sales and simpler listing management for publishers and partners.

Partners: explore session highlights, practical guidance,
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
and Foundry.

Microsoft Foundry now offers Anthropic Claude models for advanced reasoning in research, coding, and agentic workflows—within unified governance and observability.

Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL (private preview) brings auto-scaling storage, rapid compute scale-out,
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The Agent Pre-Purchase Plan (P3) pools 32 services under one flexible plan, simplifying procurement and unlocking FDE support and role-based training.

Agent 365 extends user management to govern agent fleets across M365, Azure,
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
scalable agent management.

Foundry IQ and Fabric IQ (public preview) unify agent knowledge and live enterprise data for context-rich RAG and real-time analytics.

Microsoft Agent Factory is now available to help organizations move from experimentation to execution faster.
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Foundry Control Plane (public preview) centralizes policy, lifecycle governance, and observability for AI agents across the Microsoft Cloud—enterprise-grade governance for safe,
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Azure Copilot (private preview) brings specialized agents into the Azure portal, PowerShell, and CLI.

ARM-driven scenarios plus advanced Microsoft and partner models streamline migration, assessment, and modernization with data-driven insights, guided workflows, and tighter governance.
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, the era of Frontier transformation was spotlighted: embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, speed, and create new value.

Leaders make AI foundational—rethinking processes and integrating new technologies from the start.
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM