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Microsoft Ignite 2025

2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21 Microsoft Ignite Visit website ↗

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Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent updates for everyone

Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent updates for everyone

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Jeremy Chapman (Microsoft)

Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents keep leveling up what's possible with AI as you work. Watch a hands-on tour of the most powerful recent updates – whether you're using Copilot and agents – or an agent maker.

Microsoft 365 migration & governance in 20 mins: Tips you can't miss

Microsoft 365 migration & governance in 20 mins: Tips you can't miss

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Richard Harbridge (ShareGate)

Move faster and manage better. Richard Harbridge, Microsoft MVP, shares practical migration tactics for tenant-to-tenant, Google, and legacy file share/SharePoint Server. Assess quickly, migrate sooner-while preserving what matters. See AI-aware governance in action: controlling sprawl, simplifying access reviews, and streamlining administration. Leave with clarity to consolidate faster and confidence to keep Microsoft 365 compliant, secure, and clean as you scale with Copilot.

Microsoft Foundry: The AI app and agent factory

Microsoft Foundry: The AI app and agent factory

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Yina Arenas (Microsoft)

Microsoft Foundry is the unified “AI app and agent factory” for enterprises. At Ignite, Foundry launches a simplified developer experience, a comprehensive agent framework for multi-agentic apps, multi-source knowledge base creation, and new levels of observability and control. Teams move seamlessly from idea to production, with powerful workflow automation, secure deployment, and integrated safety controls. The new portal, expanded model catalog, and new Foundry Control Plane make it easy to build, evaluate, and operate agents at scale, grounded in enterprise data, with governance and compliance by default.

Microsoft Foundry: The enterprise AI agent factory

Microsoft Foundry: The enterprise AI agent factory

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Jay Parikh (Microsoft)

Microsoft Foundry is the unified “AI app and agent factory” for enterprises. At Ignite, Foundry launches a simplified developer experience, a comprehensive agent framework for multi-agentic apps, multi-source knowledge base creation, and new levels of observability and control. Teams move seamlessly from idea to production, with powerful workflow automation, secure deployment, and integrated safety controls. The new portal, expanded model catalog, and new control plane make it easy to build, evaluate, and operate agents at scale, grounded in enterprise data, with governance and compliance by default.

Microsoft Marketplace: Your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents​

Microsoft Marketplace: Your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents​

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Cyril Belikoff (Microsoft)

Learn about the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace—the gateway to thousands of AI-powered apps, agents and cloud solutions—all built to accelerate innovation and drive business outcomes. Discover how customers benefit from faster deployment, seamless integration with Microsoft tools, and trusted solutions, and how partners can scale their reach, accelerate sales, and tap into Microsoft’s global ecosystem.

Modernizing DNS/DHCP: Micetro across hybrid and cloud environments

Modernizing DNS/DHCP: Micetro across hybrid and cloud environments

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Application slowdowns, failed logins, and jitter often trace back to DNS. Yet DNS failures are among the hardest to detect. BlueCat’s Intelligent NetOps combines flow and packet analytics with DNS telemetry, giving NetOps and DDI teams a shared view of root causes. Gain insight into how integrated observability and assurance reduce MTTR, automate detection, and resolve DNS-driven outages before they impact users.

Modernizing your infrastructure with HPE Hybrid IT technology

Modernizing your infrastructure with HPE Hybrid IT technology

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In today's ever-evolving IT landscape, we understand timing is everything. To truly power innovation, you need solutions that are easy to deploy, easy to scale, and even easier to manage. From our award-winning rack and tower servers, to our industry-defining converged and HCI systems to our networking and edge solutions — HPE spans from the Edge to the Datacenter to the Cloud to drive Digital Transformation.

Nasdaq: Secure Innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure

Nasdaq: Secure Innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure

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Mohsin Shafqat (Nasdaq) , Charles Feddersen (Microsoft)

Join Mohsin Shafqat (Nasdaq) and Charles Feddersen (Microsoft Azure) as they reveal how Nasdaq Boardvantage leverages Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build secure, scalable governance data management. Discover how this foundation enables high-volume workloads, tenant-level isolation, and AI-driven features – accelerating innovation without compromising compliance.

Next-Gen Cloud: Azure’s Blueprint for the Intelligent, Resilient Enterprise

Next-Gen Cloud: Azure’s Blueprint for the Intelligent, Resilient Enterprise

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Jeremy Winter (Microsoft)

Azure is redefining the next generation of cloud infrastructure for the AI era - built to power the world’s most ambitious AI workloads and designed for intelligent, automated operations. With innovations like Fairwater AI Super Factories and Azure Copilot, customers can modernize, scale workloads, and operate securely with greater efficiency and resilience. With Azure, organizations have the world’s most advanced cloud for AI and modern infrastructure at their fingertips, to power today and invent tomorrow.

NIST Zero Trust with Forescout and Microsoft

NIST Zero Trust with Forescout and Microsoft

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Bryan Davis (Forescout)

How to attain NIST 1800-35 Zero Trust with Forescout and Microsoft

On-demand: Agentic AI in Healthcare: Multi-Agent Orchestration in Action

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Explore the power of agentic frameworks to streamline healthcare operations. With healthcare agent orchestrator, you can customize intelligent agents, integrate them with private datasets and public sources, and deploy them seamlessly into Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Word. Experience the synergy of healthcare-specific agents enhanced by general reasoning models and multimodal healthcare foundation models—enabling them to tackle sophisticated clinical tasks with precision and efficiency.

On-demand: Architect a Goal-Driven AI Agent with Copilot Studio

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In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

On-demand: Build A2A and MCP Systems using SWE Agents and agent-framework

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Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

On-demand: Build advanced AI Agents with PostgreSQL

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Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Semantic Kernel. This hands-on lab walks you through integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic re-ranking, Semantic Operators, and GraphRAG (using Apache AGE) to enable intelligent legal question answering using real case data. Gain practical AI implementation skills with your own PostgreSQL-backed applications.

On-demand: Build and deploy AI agents with MCP and Azure Functions

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This lab provides a comprehensive overview of building, deploying, and securing AI agents. We will start by creating a single agent with Azure Functions and Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, then enhance it with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and add data grounding with Azure Cosmos DB. You will also combine the single agents to form a multi-agent system. You will then deploy, manage and secure the application on a Flex Consumption plan.

On-demand: Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Microsoft Foundry and MCP

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In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to build domain-specific AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Starting from a simple agent, you’ll add system prompts, custom instructions, and knowledge with RAG. You’ll extend it with tool calling (like a pizza calculator) and connect external services via MCP for live menu and order handling. By the end, you’ll have a working Contoso PizzaBot that can answer questions, recommend pizzas, and manage orders.

On-demand: Build new AI Applications with Azure SQL Databases

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Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

On-demand: Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc

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Join this hands-on lab to learn about Azure Arc for on-prem and multicloud management. In this lab, you will learn how to project and manage resources in Azure - connect on-premises resources and use cloud connector for AWS resources, enforce security policies, and enable monitoring. Whether you’re modernizing existing systems or building new edge capabilities, you’ll gain practical experience to extend Azure’s power everywhere.

On-demand: Defend Against Threats with Microsoft Defender

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Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

On-demand: Develop Scalable Data Solutions with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric

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JoinMicrosoft’s product team for a hands-on lab where you'll design and deploy anAI-powered application using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. This sessiondives into HTAP capabilities, enabling seamless transactional and analyticalprocessing. You'll provision a SaaS-native SQL Database, use Copilot togenerate schema and queries, and implement advanced patterns like RAG withvector search. Walk away with practical skills and a working solution you canapply immediately.

On-demand: Extending Dragon Copilot with Partner Built AI Solutions

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This hands-on lab guides you through how developers and partners can build solutions, agents and extensibility features that can be delivered through Dragon Copilot, leveraging Microsoft’s scale to expand reach and engagement.

On-demand: Fast track your Linux and PostgreSQL migration with Azure Migrate

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Learn how to seamlessly modernize a Linux application stack in Azure. Participants will be able to step through the migration process with a Linux/Postgres/Java application and utilize infrastructure as a code (IaC) for scale migrations.

On-demand: Get Real with Real-Time Intelligence to Transform Data into Action

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Harness the power of real-time analytics and digital twins to achieve critical operational tasks. In this lab, you'll learn how to transform physical systems into dynamic digital replicas, enhancing simulations and optimizing operations. Discover how to build end-to-end solutions for event-driven scenarios, streaming data, and data logs. These practical steps will empower you to drive smart decision-making and foster innovation within your organization.

On-demand: Govern identities with confidence using Microsoft Entra

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Gain the skills to govern identities at scale with Microsoft Entra. Get hands-on experience automating provisioning, streamlining access, enforcing governance policies, and configuring Face Check for identity validation to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

On-demand: Governing AI Apps & Agents with AI Gateway in Azure API Management

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In this hands-on lab, discover how to govern AI Apps & Agents using AI Gateway in Azure API Management. Learn to apply governance best practices by onboarding AI models, monitoring and controlling token usage, enforcing safety and compliance, and boosting performance with semantic caching. You’ll also govern MCP-based agent architectures by creating secure, efficient servers from APIs or connecting to backend MCP servers, equipping you to deliver responsible, resilient AI solutions at scale.