Published: 2026-04-23
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23th-april-2026-109-edition-taswar-bhatti-1exif
Here is the #109 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. Happy Childrens Day if you are in Turkiye. 👶 I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this alng to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe.
1. Microsoft Agent Framework releasing version 1.0
Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 — making production-grade agent development feel like normal software development. In this episode, Jorge Arteiro, Shawn Henry and @Rong Lu walk through what’s new in the v1.0 GA release: stable APIs, multi-agent orchestration with handoff patterns, and support for Python and .NET.
2. Using Microsoft Agent Framework with Foundry managed memory
In this episode, Jorge Arteiro, Amy Boyd and Lewis Liu dive into Memory in Foundry Agent Service — a managed, long-term memory layer that turns stateless LLM calls into stateful, continuous agents. Lewis Liu and Amy Boyd walk through how memory is natively integrated with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph, enabling agents to persist user preferences, conversation context, and task outcomes across sessions — with zero infrastructure overhead. See how per-user memory scoping, automatic memory extraction, and CRUD APIs give developers full control while keeping enterprise governance built in.
3. Azure confidential computing in the sovereign cloud era
Join Vikas Bhatia, head of product for Azure Compute Security & Confidential Computing, as he presents the latest innovations in Azure Confidential Computing and Microsoft Sovereign Cloud. This session explores how Azure empowers organizations to achieve digital sovereignty, secure sensitive data, and meet global compliance requirements. Learn about real-world use cases, hardware advancements, and strategies for resilient, mission-critical workloads—directly from the leader driving Azure’s security vision.
4. Discover, manage, and secure AI agents with Microsoft Agent 365
In this session from Vasu Jakkal RSAC 2026 Main Stage keynote, see how Microsoft Agent 365 helps organizations discover, manage, and secure AI agents at scale. Learn how IT and security teams gain centralized visibility into agent activity, apply consistent policies, and protect data across the agent lifecycle, no matter where agents are built or deployed.
5. From code to cloud: Deploy an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry in minutes with azd
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This post walks through the full end-to-end workflow: deploying an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry, invoking it remotely, running it locally for development, and monitoring it in real time—all from Visual Studio (VS) Code.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 🙂
Taswar