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Sep 30, 2026
Derek CookGUEST
Logic that can be translated should be traceable, while logic that cannot be safely translated should be identified rather than guessed.
Derek CookGUEST
In a sample Contoso environment, two configuration documenter reports produced 86 files across eight management agents, including 18 generated rules.
Derek CookGUEST
Six were completed and 12 were marked as scaffolds because the available input did not support safe completion.
Derek CookGUEST
A configuration that imports successfully does not prove that it behaves like the original system.
Justin BrodleyHOST
And there was a way, you'd have to create a Teams bot, and it was a big pain, so this is much improved.
Justin BrodleyHOST
They also provide you network egress controls for hosted agents and public preview, letting customers govern outbound connections via ordered rules, match on destination hosts, or fully qualified domain names, including wildcard support like star.contoso.com. Enforcement happens inside the Foundry Managed Agent sandbox where traffic leaves the runtime, so basic allow listing doesn't require a separate network appliance, which simplifies deployment for the agent.
Justin BrodleyHOST
And finally, you can now enable and disable controls within the Agent 365 governments surface in Microsoft Admin Center, allowing admins to manage agent availability without needing developer involvements.
Justin BrodleyHOST
This brings Foundry agents into the same governance framework as other agent types in Admin Center, giving IT and security teams a consistent way to manage the full agent estate and meet the compliance requirements.
Geoff WaltonHOST
So same curve, different code base.
Geoff WaltonHOST
The first one I thought kind of is a question because if an agent generally can't tell the difference between a documentation item and an instruction, I suddenly have a lot of fear for open source projects and smaller ISVs that might've been a little less careful about keeping their samples to example.com, Contoso and Fabrikam domains.
Geoff WaltonHOST
Is there a chance a badly written read me MD is going to be an invitation to an uninvited automated pen test?
Justin ElzeGUEST
I think this one will work itself out over time.
Ian BrownHOST
What happened was a regular gave Gemini a fictitious company name of a company that actually exists.
Dave WallHOST
Like try to use a Contoso or something.
Dave WallHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dave WallHOST
Be a Contoso.
Ian BrownHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Ian BrownHOST
It's like, hey, I've got this fake site called Hive Tech.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
SPF describes the allowed hosts, either by name or by IP address, that are allowed to send as my company domain.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
So the SPF record of Contoso.com states, for example, the IP addresses of my sending on-premises servers are They do include a reference to the external third-party marketing infrastructure that I use to send newsletters because I do want that clients receive my newsletter with my company name and my company email address because it's a corporate identity thing, right? Marketing only works.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
if my marketing emails are being received as controls.com and not as gmail.com as an example.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
And the receiving side then can check the SPF record, or normally these days they do, if the email is being or trying to be delivered from valid hosts.
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Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
But with a DMARC entry, I'm having that so-called ROA, and an email address, which is the email address for aggregated DMARC reports.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
I get an XML report, for example, from GMX or from Gmail, depending on the configuration I have.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
So on a daily basis, weekly basis, whatever I define, which I can analyze because I get information from other SNTP servers, from other email servers, who send mails with my Contoso.com email address.
Thomas StensitzkiGUEST
So I'll send valid emails or, for example, to send not so valid emails.
PhilippaHOST
"A generic prompt will only get you a generic answer," Ahtang notes.
PhilippaHOST
To borrow the name of the fictional company that Microsoft uses in its product literature, you can't just say, "Tell me about Contoso." "Copilot needs context," he explains.
PhilippaHOST
A better approach would be to ask, "What were the key points that emerged in my latest conversation with Contoso?" Or, "Can you highlight any outstanding items from conversations I've had with Contoso in the last week?" "You may want to widen your query even further if you're concerned that something from three months ago may have slipped through the net," he says.
PhilippaHOST
For Jamie Pope, service delivery director at CloudAgile, Copilot can help accountants respond faster to clients and turn up better prepared.
PhilippaHOST
However, firms should not allow the tool to be able to decide that the loudest email is automatically the most urgent.