Building On‑Prem AI Agents with Azure Local, Foundry Local, and Microsoft Agent Framework
A practical architecture and implementation guide for deploying AI agents on-premises using Azure Local, Foundry Local, and Microsoft Agent Framework.
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A practical architecture and implementation guide for deploying AI agents on-premises using Azure Local, Foundry Local, and Microsoft Agent Framework.
On March 31, 2026, Microsoft launched Agent Evaluation in general availability, fundamentally changing how teams validate Copilot agents. This guide explains how Agent Evaluation and the Copilot Studio Kit serve different—but complementary—roles in your quality assurance strategy, and when to use each one.
Azure Local is Microsoft's distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments. This article provides a comprehensive overview of Azure Local, Foundry Local, and Microsoft 365 Local, their use cases, deployment options, and best practices for IT architects and decision-makers considering on-premises Azure solutions. With an appendix on agentic AI use cases on Azure Local and Foundry Local.
Archived post - content may be outdate second part of a series part 1 (the basics and installing the gui) of the series was publish a week earlier Motivation In this second part of the series, we will learn how to customize our chatGPT clone w...
Archived post - content may be outdate Motivation You want your “ChatGPT” to operate in a secure environment, ensuring all data and interactions with your “bot” remain private. Your prompts (inputs) and completions (outputs), your embeddings, a...
Archived post - content may be outdate Motivation With Azure OpenAI services enhanced by your data, robust language models and Azure Cognitive Search work together to index your data and provide responses following your organization’s policies. ...
Archived post - content may be outdate Motivation With Azure OpenAI services enhanced by your data, robust language models and Azure Cognitive Search work together to index your data and provide responses following your organization’s policies. ...
Archived post - content may be outdate Motivation Customer service is a crucial aspect of any business, influencing whether customers will return or opt for a competitor. In today’s world of intense competition and heightened customer expectatio...
Archived post - content may be outdate In Dynamics 365 Customer Service, representatives can use the voice channel to communicate with customers over the phone and resolve issues. Although chat, SMS messages, and social media have become popular ...
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