The response log keeps what the agent said, not the path it took. The Foundry trace keeps the order of the steps, the failures and the tokens of each turn, and leaves the content to a protected table. See what the trace shows, who can see the content and what changed in Agent Framework 1.22.0, with an example run locally.
Learn to discover paths, inspect schemas, and read messages with Work IQ MCP. A read-only example shows why fewer tools do not remove access, coverage, and authorization boundaries.
The slide had a single box labeled Microsoft IQ, and the relationship manager's agent got one question right out of four. Microsoft IQ is the name of a set: Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ and Web IQ, each with its own question, data home, status per component, identity and boundary. This article maps the four layers: what is GA and what is in preview, who answers in each one, where they meet and how far the data goes.
RAG over Microsoft 365 used to be your pipeline: a connector, a vector index, a sync job and permissions re-created by hand. Microsoft Work IQ takes that pipeline out of your hands — and charges in identity: there is no application-only authentication, every call runs as a person and tenant policy blocks writes by default. This article shows what changes, what stays with you and how to compose Work IQ with Foundry, Microsoft Fabric data agents and Databricks Genie without swapping the identity on the way.
Microsoft Entra Agent ID reached general availability, and in Microsoft Foundry the agent identity is provisioned for you. Understand blueprints, the shared project identity and the RBAC that does not carry over on publish, why a sponsor is required at creation, how leaver workflows transfer sponsorship to prevent orphaned agents, and why the token subject decides where a Conditional Access policy actually lands.
A2A connects independent agents; MCP connects tools and resources. Understand tasks, identity, and trust across delegation, then follow a complete Python example to deploy and call an A2A agent in Microsoft Foundry, with RBAC and explicit preview limitations.
Guardrails contain at runtime; evaluation measures over time — and neither does the other's job. Content Safety, Prompt Shields, evaluators that see the tool call and not just the answer, red teaming with PyRIT, and the maturity signal that separates a demo from a system: a deployment blocked by a number.
AI adoption stopped being a technology problem and became an operations and accountability problem. An executive guide to governance, the real dangers of AI, and the shift from application developer to AI engineer.