Have you soaked up all the exciting updates and announcements from this year’s Microsoft Ignite? Because we certainly have: from exciting updates to Microsoft Copilot and AI agents to brand-new features for Windows 365, Microsoft Foundry and much more. Let’s dive straight into the details. And go over our favorite highlights from the event.
Thu, 27 November 2025
In this year’s edition of Ignite, AI was the common thread across the board, reflecting Microsoft’s ongoing effort to streamline AI adoption and agent-building across different industries. With lots of new tools and features, your organization will have a broader range of options to design, deploy, and manage intelligent agents that suit your business needs.
Microsoft introduced the IQ Stack, a collection of intelligence layers designed to make their AI Copilots and agents more context-aware. Each IQ layer is focused on a specific Microsoft stack:
These IQ layers first and foremost promise to improve the overall user experience when using AI within Microsoft applications since they will have a better understanding of your personal context and that of your business. These insights should make them able to provide more accurate and relevant responses.
Secondly the Microsoft IQ will be available for you to use when building agents, meaning that you can tap into all the knowledge and relationship building you have within your Microsoft tenant to build better agent experiences.
Microsoft launched Agent 365, an extension to the Microsoft Control System and a centralized control hub for managing AI agents across Microsoft and third-party ecosystems. It includes a registry, access control, dashboards, and security integration with Entra, Defender, and Purview.
Given the rise of AI agents it has become clear that governance and management is very important to prevent agent sprawl. Unmanaged agents pose compliance and security risks and Agent 365 aims to solve this by treating agents like digital employees, assigning them unique IDs, enforcing least-privilege access, and providing full observability. This is critical for scaling AI safely and responsibly, ensuring governance without stifling innovation.
Microsoft Foundry is trying to take agent development to the next level with updates that make building smarter, more connected and easier. At the heart of these improvements is a unified catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, designed with security and governance in mind. Developers can now discover a curated list of both public and private MCP tools from a single, secure interface in Microsoft Foundry
To accelerate innovation, Foundry also introduces prebuilt AI service tools. These ready-to-use MCP servers bring transcription, translation, voice interaction, and intelligent document processing right out of the box, so developers can add capabilities without starting from scratch.
That means that agents can tap into real-time data from over 1,400 enterprise systems like SAP, Salesforce, and HubSpot through Logic Apps connectors. This allows agents to access context from a wide range of tools increasing their potential for day-to-day operations.
Together, these updates empower organizations to build agents that are deeply integrated, highly capable, and fully governed – unlocking new possibilities for automation and AI-driven workflows.
Copilot Studio now includes an agent evaluation module, allowing them to be monitored in real-time and giving them an Entra ID. Agent Evaluation introduces automated testing for AI agents built in Copilot Studio. It runs agents through a series of predefined scenarios and queries, then grades their responses against expected outcomes. Very easy to use and helpful to get a quick understanding of how accurate your agent is.
With real-time agent monitoring you can now connect security tools such as Microsoft Defender, third-party tools, or custom solutions directly into agent runs. This means every agent interaction can be monitored for threats like prompt injection attacks or malicious behavior.
With the Entra integration for agents you can now provide a unique identity to every agent. This way you can more easily manage and maintain your inventory of AI assets, including shadow agents. It also supports lifecycle governance, ensuring agents are created, managed, and deactivated according to your policies. With this Entra integration, admins can enforce access controls, prevent orphaned or overprivileged agents, and use tools like Agent 365 for further management.
As organizations build more custom agents, quality and trust become very important. These new features provide visibility into agent behavior, helping your teams fine-tune performance and prevent misuse.
It will follow your prompts and perform clicks on your behalf, take screenshots, analyze what needs to be done, and determine where to click before moving to the next action. It is easy to troubleshoot and debug, and it allows you to automate repetitive tasks, even platforms without any APIs.
Microsoft will be bringing several Copilot+ PC features to Windows 365 with the launch of
Application streaming has finally arrived to Windows 365 with the addition of Cloud Apps. It offers your users quick access to individual applications, without having to give each of them a dedicated Cloud PC. And the best part? You don’t need any experience with VDI infrastructure to set it up.
With Cloud Apps, it’s all about user-friendliness and fast scalability.
Windows 365 Frontline Shared (FLS) now has persistence through
For instance, you’ll be able to save user preferences in storage ranging from 4GB up to 64 GB. It’s not built on top of FSLogix and does not require any VDI knowledge to set up or use. Microsoft handles everything for you.
Microsoft also introduced
Windows 365 Reserve is now generally available.
We’re already looking forward to experiment with all of the brand-new features. And cannot wait to implement them in your modern workplace, so that you can enjoy improved productivity, efficiency and flexibility.
Tijdens het jaarlijkse Ignite-event presenteerde Microsoft nieuwe details over AI-agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot en Copilot Studio. Het is alvast uitkijken naar de impact van deze innovatie: meer productiviteit, minder gedoe en een slimmere bedrijfsvoering. Maar wat houdt dat precies in? En wat is de impact van AI-agents op je werkdag?
Application virtualization is niks nieuws. Want met RemoteApp van Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) kan je al jaren remote applicaties streamen naar je persoonlijke toestellen. Maar voortaan krijg je diezelfde flexibiliteit ook met Windows 365: enter Cloud Apps. Benieuwd naar de mogelijkheden van deze feature? En klaar om te ontdekken hoe jij het kan integreren in je organisatie? Dieter Kempeneers, onze VDI-specialist, duikt er samen met jou in.
"We believe that Copilot will fundamentally change our (work) relationship with technology, and usher in a new era of personal computing," says none other than Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Arxus also anticipated the arrival of Microsoft 365 Copilot for some time. As part of the early access program, we have been able to test the tool intensively and in depth. Will November 1st forever be remembered as the day that Microsoft 365 Copilot first saw the light of day? Let's discuss the basics of the tool and help you prepare for the next big thing.
