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October 2026

  1. Evaluate Before Production: Evidence-Based Gates for On-Premises RAG
  2. Hardening On-Premises RAG: Identity, Admission, Readiness, and PHI-Safe Observability
  3. Bounded Local Agentic Patterns for Clinical RAG
  4. What Traffic Engineering Taught Us About Building an Azure App
  5. Fine-Tuning and Auditing an On-Device SLM Traffic Controller with Real London Data
  6. Microsoft Foundry Guardrails Getting in Your Way? Here’s How to Dial Them Down
  7. Not Every Decision Needs an LLM: Getting Started with Microsoft-Decision-1
  8. Building a Local RAG Copilot with Foundry Local: Evidence Before Answers
  9. Run Deterministic SQL Before Asking a Local LLM to Plan
  10. Streaming Grounded Chat to Desktop and Mobile Through a Rust Bridge
  11. A Local Hybrid Retrieval Pattern for Health Records
  12. Resumable Health-Record Ingestion Without Sacrificing the Last-Known-Good Index

September 2026

  1. DocumentDB as an Internal Hybrid Store: Documents, Vectors, State, and Safe Publication
  2. Bringing AI-Powered Grid Optimization Offline: Quantizing GridSFM for Local Deployment
  3. Connecting Azure AI Foundry to OpenCode, and some troubleshooting steps
  4. Foundry Local with Rust: From Catalog Discovery to In-Process Streaming
  5. Architecture First: Drawing the Boundary for On-Premises Health RAG
  6. Transforming Solo Agents to Collaborative Teams: Choosing Multi-Agent Patterns in Microsoft Foundry
  7. Schema Validity Is Not Enough
  8. Building a Fully Local Maintenance Assistant with Microsoft Foundry Local
  9. Agentic Mentor: A Specification-Driven, Multi-Agent Learning Tool
  10. Connecting GitHub Copilot to My Oscilloscope
  11. A Hands-On Community Workshop for Learning to Work with AI Coding Agents
  12. From Microsoft Student Ambassador to Microsoft MVP: A Journey of Learning, Leadership, and Community

August 2026

  1. Adding a Fallback Model to Hermes with Microsoft Foundry
  2. Agent Governance Toolkit: Giving AI Agents Rules of the Road
  3. Understanding Harnesses: The Concept That Changes How You Build Agents in Copilot Studio
  4. Build AI agents without leaving VS Code, join our 3-part Reactor Series

July 2026

  1. CivicGrant IQ: The Five-Agent AI That Reads Federal Grants So Cities Don't Have To
  2. ARGUS: Compliance Infrastructure That Believes Financial Access Is a Human Right
  3. Grounded AI That Won't Invent Facts: Building "Tell My Day" with Microsoft Foundry IQ
  4. How I Built CurriculumCraft AI — A Microsoft Hackathon Winning EdTech Solution for Ghana's Teachers
  5. Building Archon: Where Models Stop and Financial Controls Begin
  6. DELPHAI: We Built an AI Council That Checks the Math, Argues with Itself, and Knows How to Say No
  7. My Exams Inspired the Project That Won My First Hackathon
  8. AfterLogin: We Turned Forgotten-Account Cleanup into a Haunted-House Game with Microsoft Foundry
  9. 🏆 Agents League: Celebrating the Builders Who Made Agents Battle for Glory
  10. Set Up Plaud Note Pro with Microsoft Foundry
  11. Microsoft Agent Framework Multi-Agent Workflow Architecture for Automated Kubernetes Assessments
  12. Building a Fully Managed Multi-Agent Pipeline with Microsoft Foundry
  13. Build and Deploy Your First AI Agent with Microsoft Foundry Toolkit
  14. From Game to Operations: Exporting a Foundry-Designed Workforce as a Portable Bundle

June 2026

  1. GitHub Copilot App Canvas Is a Runtime
  2. Master the Command Line with GitHub Copilot CLI:
  3. Action Required: Migrate Your Copilot CLI MCP Config Away from .vscode/mcp.json
  4. Local-First and Fully Traced: Routing Between Ollama, Foundry Local, and Microsoft Foundry
  5. Mind the Specs: Grading formal specifications and KPIs as artefacts for LLM-driven code generation
  6. Agents That Remember the Boss: Closing the Loop with Foundry Agent Service Memory
  7. KVStream: Smarter Memory Management for On-Device Language Model Inference
  8. The Gate Is the Product: Human-Verified Artifacts in a Foundry Multi-Agent Game
  9. The Hidden Boundaries of Modern AI
  10. Detecting Python Vulnerabilities with GraphCodeBERT
  11. Building ShadowQuest: A Multi-Agent RPG
  12. Gamifying World Improvement: Shipping a Reasoning-Agent RPG on Microsoft Foundry
  13. Compliance Academy: A Multi-Agent Cyber Mystery Built on Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
  14. Make Your Copilot Credits Count: A Student's Guide to Smarter AI Usage
  15. Evaluating the Evaluator: How to Test an LLM Judge with Microsoft Agent Framework

May 2026

  1. Building a hands-free voice concierge with Microsoft Foundry Voice Live and a Hosted Agent
  2. Building Reliable AI Coding Workflows Using Modular AI Agent Optimization
  3. Hybrid AI Agents in Python: Routing Between Foundry Local and Microsoft Foundry
  4. CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry
  5. Student Devs: Build AI Agents, Compete for $55K in Prizes
  6. Signing in to Microsoft Foundry from OpenClaw using Azure AD: a smoother way to bring your models in
  7. Spec-Driven Development for AI-Enabled Enterprise Systems
  8. Building the Solution Teams Need to Secure AI Against Prompt Injection
  9. Stop Hallucinating, Start Evaluating — A Tour of AgentEval
  10. City simulator with AI agents for traffic congestion

April 2026

  1. Build AI RAG Apps with LangChain, Azure DocumentDB and Microsoft Foundry: Step-by-Step Guide
  2. From Demo to Production: Building Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents with .NET
  3. Building an Auditable Security Layer for Agentic AI
  4. Prompt Engineering for Spec-Driven Development with SpecKit
  5. Build and Deploy a Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agent: A Hands-On Workshop

March 2026

  1. Getting Started with Foundry Local: A Student Guide to the Microsoft Foundry Local Lab
  2. Langchain Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework and Hosted Agents
  3. Build an Offline Hybrid RAG Stack with ONNX and Foundry Local
  4. Step-by-Step: Deploy the Architecture Review Agent Using AZD AI CLI
  5. Microsoft Olive & Olive Recipes: A Practical Guide to Model Optimization for Real-World Deployment
  6. ProvePresent: Ending Proxy Attendance with Azure Serverless & Azure OpenAI
  7. Foundry IQ: Give Your AI Agents a Knowledge Upgrade
  8. Microsoft Foundry Model Router: A Developer's Guide to Smarter AI Routing
  9. Build a Fully Offline RAG App with Foundry Local: No Cloud Required
  10. Data Driven Analytics for Responsible Business Solutions, learning how to work with Power BI
  11. The Hidden Architecture of Nano Architectures

February 2026

  1. Creating a Fun Multi-Agent Content Strategy System with Microsoft Agent Framework
  2. Stop Drawing Architecture Diagrams Manually: Meet the Open-Source AI Architecture Review Agents
  3. Integrating Microsoft Foundry with OpenClaw: Step by Step Model Configuration
  4. Learning Cost Efficient AI Agents Development on Azure
  5. Building an AI Study Agent - How GitHub Copilot CLI & SDK helped Reimagine LMS
  6. Agentic Code Fixing with GitHub Copilot SDK and Foundry Local
  7. Building a Local Research Desk: Multi-Agent Orchestration
  8. Deploying Custom Models with Microsoft Olive and Foundry Local
  9. How to Set Up Claude Code with Microsoft Foundry Models on macOS
  10. Build an AI-Powered Space Invaders Game
  11. Choosing the Right Intelligence Layer for Your Application
  12. From Zero to 16 Games in 2 Hours
  13. Agents League: Build, Learn, and Level Up Your AI Skills
  14. Building with Azure OpenAI Sora: A Complete Guide to AI Video Generation

January 2026

  1. The Hidden Memory Architecture of LLMs
  2. Créer votre première application avec PowerApps
  3. Advanced Function Calling and Multi-Agent Systems with Small Language Models in Foundry Local
  4. From Requirements to Design: How Copilot Simplifies Functional Design Documents
  5. AI Didn’t Break Your Production — Your Architecture Did

December 2025

  1. OSS AI Summit: Building with LangChain
  2. .NET 10 and Memory: Less Heap, Smarter GC, Faster Apps
  3. Zero-Trust Agent Architecture: How To Actually Secure Your Agents

November 2025

  1. Function Calling with Small Language Models
  2. Tracing the Conversation: Open Telemetry and AI Toolkit for GenAI Performance Insights
  3. PrivyDoc: Building a Zero-Data-Leak AI with Foundry Local & Microsoft's Agent Framework
  4. Running Phi-4 Locally with Microsoft Foundry Local: A Step-by-Step Guide
  5. From Meeting Chaos to Clarity: How AI Turns Transcripts into Backlogs

October 2025

  1. Dive Deep into .NET Conf Student Zone 2025
  2. Edge AI for Beginners : Getting Started with Foundry Local
  3. Level up your Python + AI skills with our complete series
  4. Phi-4: Small Language Models That Pack a Punch
  5. Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 2 - Securing Your Architecture from Storage to Network
  6. What’s in a Name? Fuzzy Matching for Real-World Data
  7. Building a Multi-Agent System with Azure AI Agent Service: Campus Event Management
  8. Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 1 -- Protecting Your LLM from Malicious Inputs
  9. AI Career Navigator — Empowering Job Seekers with Azure OpenAI
  10. Microsoft’s A-Grade Azure AI Stack: From Dissertation Prototype to Smart Campus Pilot
  11. Getting Started with AI Agents: A Student Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft Agent Framework

September 2025

  1. Edge AI for Student Developers: Learn to Run AI Locally
  2. Foundry Fridays: Your Gateway to Azure AI Discovery
  3. Streamlining Campus Life: A Multi-Agent System for Campus Event Management
  4. Beyond the Black Box: See Inside AI's Performance with AI Toolkit
  5. Conversational Agents for Campus Energy Management
  6. Model Mondays S2E13: Open Source Models (Hugging Face)
  7. Model Mondays S2E12: Models & Observability
  8. ATLAS: Your AI Tutoring Agent For Personalised Learning

August 2025

  1. Unlock the Full Potential of LLMs with POML: The Markup Language for Prompts
  2. Model Mondays S2E11: Exploring Speech AI in Azure AI Foundry
  3. Co-op Translator: Current Status and v0.10.0 Release
  4. Building Enterprise-Grade Local RAG Applications with Semantic Kernel and Foundry Local
  5. Model Mondays S2E10: Automating Document Processing with AI
  6. Microsoft Copilot Studio: Créer et déployer un chatbot
  7. How to Use Custom Models with Foundry Local: A Beginner's Guide
  8. Building AI Agents with Ease: Function Calling in VS Code AI Toolkit
  9. Model Mondays S2E9: Models for AI Agents
  10. How Microsoft Semantic Kernel Transforms Proven Workflows into Intelligent Agents
  11. Fix Broken Migrations with AI Powered Debugging in VS Code Using GitHub Copilot
  12. Building Application with gpt-oss-20b with AI Toolkit
  13. Model Mondays S2E8: On-Device & Local AI
  14. Model Mondays S2:E7 · AI-Assisted Azure Development

July 2025

  1. Model Mondays S2:E6 Understanding Research & Innovation with SeokJin Han and Saumil Shrivastava
  2. Model Mondays S2:E5 – Fine Tuning & Distillation with Dave Voutila
  3. CampusSphere: Building the Future of Campus AI with Microsoft's Agentic Framework
  4. Preparing for Your Organization’s AI Workloads – Student Learning Pathways
  5. Curious About Model Context Protocol? Dive into MCP with Us!
  6. Multi-Agent Systems and MCP Tools Integration with Azure AI Foundry
  7. Model Mondays S2:E4 Understanding AI Developer Experiences with Leo Yao

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