Tag: ai-agents
21 posts tagged with "ai-agents"
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Exam AI-500 Beta: Microsoft Just Published Its Multi-Agent Roadmap and Called It a Certification
July 23, 2026
Exam AI-500 beta is open. What the Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert credential tests, how it differs from AI-102 and AB-100, and who should book versus wait.
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The CAT Skills Gallery Just Made \"Agent vs Flow\" a Real Decision - Here's the Proof
July 17, 2026
A fully offline document converter in the CAT skills gallery changes the Microsoft agent vs flow calculus. Here's the decision framework architects need.
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Microsoft Agent vs Flow: Why Agent Skills for Python Ends the Mega-Prompt Era
July 15, 2026
Agent Skills for Python shipped stable in Microsoft Agent Framework. What that means for mega-prompt agents, Prompt Flow, and your token bill.
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AB-100 Decoded (2026): What the Agentic AI Architect Exam Tests
July 11, 2026
AB-100 replaces four retired Microsoft business-apps certifications. What the agentic AI architect exam tests, its prerequisite gate, and how to prep.
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Microsoft Agent vs Flow: Why Agent Framework 1.0 Changes When You Reach for Each
July 9, 2026
Flows execute a graph you already drew. Agents decide the graph at runtime. With orchestration at 1.0, picking wrong is now a design failure, not a tooling gap.
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Microsoft Agent vs Flow: Agent Framework 1.0 Makes Pattern Choice the Real Skill
July 8, 2026
Microsoft agent vs flow is now the real decision. Agent Framework 1.0 stabilizes five orchestration patterns in Python and .NET. Here is how to choose.
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Microsoft Agent vs Flow: What Foundry's June 2026 Release Really Decides for You
July 8, 2026
Foundry's June 2026 drop makes agents cheap to ship. Here is the decision rule for choosing between a flow, a Foundry agent, and a custom Azure build.
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Agent Skills for .NET Left Preview: What It Changes in the Microsoft Agent vs Flow Decision
July 7, 2026
Agent Skills for .NET is out of experimental preview. Where it moves the Microsoft agent vs flow line, where it does not, and what to migrate first.
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The Agent Product Owner Role: The Missing Link Between It Demoed Great and It's Safe in Production
June 30, 2026
Agents fail on ownership, not model quality. The agent product owner role is the named accountability that makes production deployment defensible on Azure.
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From Zero to Autonomous: An Agentic Development Workflow with Claude Code and Azure ML
June 30, 2026
Agentic development with Claude Code is a CI/CD discipline, not a chatbot. Here is how to govern agent autonomy inside Azure ML pipelines without losing your audit trail.
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Stop Vibe-Coding Power Platform: Turn ADO Work Items Into Specs Any AI Agent Can Build From
June 30, 2026
Agentic development for Power Platform pays off only when the Azure DevOps work item is a machine-readable spec any agent can build from and verify against.
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Microsoft Agent vs Flow: When to Build an AI Agent, When to Automate a Workflow (and When to Do Neither)
June 30, 2026
A determinism-first framework for the Copilot Studio vs Power Automate call, with a six-dimension rubric scoring Agent, Flow, Hybrid, or Neither.
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Dataverse MCP Server: Tool Shape Is Your New Security Perimeter
June 24, 2026
Microsoft's Dataverse MCP Server turns your system of record into agent-callable tools. The contract you define, not the platform, decides what an LLM can do.
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AI Agent vs Flow: When Not to Build One (2026 Decision Guide)
June 18, 2026
When to build an AI agent and when a flow, a query, or nothing is the better tool. A 5-question decision test, worked examples, and the agent tax to budget.
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Your AI Agent Project Is Really a Data Project: The Data-Prep Tax
June 18, 2026
AI agent projects are really data projects. Why data preparation and upkeep, not the model, decides whether an agent ships, and how to scope the data work first.
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AI Cost Governance in 2026: The Spend Caps That Don't Actually Cap
June 17, 2026
AI cost governance in 2026: the budget you reach for first only alerts, it never stops. A vendor-by-vendor playbook on which AI spend controls hard-stop and which just notify.
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Microsoft's Agents Hub Decoded (2026): The Frameworks and the Gaps
June 17, 2026
Microsoft's new Agents hub formalizes agent architecture, archetypes, a maturity model, and evaluation. An architect's read on what it still leaves to you.
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Coding Agents and Developer Economics on the Microsoft Stack (2026)
June 14, 2026
Coding agents are normal tool evolution, not rupture. The Microsoft business-apps read: execution compresses, but judgment and accountability do not.
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Rayfin Decoded: Microsoft's Bet on Prompt-to-Production Backends
June 13, 2026
Rayfin lets agents define and deploy a full backend to Microsoft Fabric in one command. What it actually compresses, what it couples you to, and when an architect should reach for it.
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Foundry Hosted vs In-Process vs Copilot Studio Agents (2026 Decision)
May 31, 2026
Foundry Hosted vs in-process vs Copilot Studio agents: a 2026 four-gate decision framework that picks the right path by who builds it and who runs it.
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Six Rules for LLM-Agnostic AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry
April 29, 2026
Foundry Model Router routes 18 models across providers. Six rules for AI agents that survive the next vendor rotation, with a proposal-writing example.