Azure Partners: What’s New for December 2025

Key points

• Azure Copilot is now in private preview, introducing specialized agents to streamline migration, assessment, and modernization activities with data-driven insights.
• Microsoft Foundry updates include the public preview of Foundry Control Plane, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ, which provide unified visibility, security, and control to AI agents, automate source routing and retrieval workflows, and offer a live, unified view of enterprise data and AI agents.
• Resale enabled offers are now available through Microsoft Marketplace, allowing software companies to work with channel partners to manage listings and expand reach.

At the Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference, the company explored the era of Frontier transformation, which focuses on embedding AI across every part of the business to improve decision-making, increase speed, and create new value. Microsoft Azure played a significant role in this shift, with various updates and announcements that can help partners deliver intelligent solutions, drive operational efficiency, and differentiate their products or services in the market.

One of the key updates is Azure Copilot, which is now in private preview. This introduces specialized agents to the Azure portal, PowerShell, and CLI, streamlining migration, assessment, and modernization activities with data-driven insights, guided workflows, and improved governance across customer environments. For partners, this creates a unified way to deliver intelligent automation for cloud workloads, accelerate modernization projects, reduce operational overhead, and strengthen governance.

Microsoft Foundry also received significant updates, including the public preview of Foundry Control Plane, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ. Foundry Control Plane extends Agent 365 by bringing unified visibility, security, and control to AI agents operating across the Microsoft Cloud. Foundry IQ provides a unified endpoint for agent knowledge, automating source routing and retrieval workflows through Azure AI Search. Fabric IQ offers a live, unified view of enterprise data and AI agents, organizing information by business concepts and using OneLake to support real-time analytics across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Another important update is the availability of resale enabled offers through Microsoft Marketplace. This allows software companies to work with channel partners to manage listings and expand reach, creating new channel-led sales opportunities by making it easier to promote and manage listings on behalf of publishers and reach more customers globally without adding operational complexity.

Additionally, Microsoft Agent Factory is now available, designed for organizations that want to move from experimentation to execution faster. This program streamlines procurement and reduces complexity, offering eligible organizations hands-on support from top AI Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and access to tailored, role-based training to boost AI fluency across teams.

Microsoft Foundry also now offers Anthropic Claude models, which support advanced reasoning for research, coding, and agentic workflows, all within the Microsoft unified governance and observability framework. This expands choice across model capabilities to develop multistep agents using the right model per task while maintaining governance and deployment consistency across Azure, Foundry, and Microsoft 365 Copilot environments.

Furthermore, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL cloud database for mission-critical applications and modern AI workloads, offering auto-scaling storage, rapid compute scale out, advanced vector indexing, and integration with the Microsoft AI and analytics ecosystem. For partners, HorizonDB supports the development of intelligent and resilient applications, modernization of legacy systems, and creation of high-performance data platforms designed for security, scale, and future AI workloads.

Finally, Microsoft Agent 365 is the control plane for AI agents, extending the Microsoft user management infrastructure to AI agents, empowering organizations to govern agents across Microsoft 365, Azure, and Foundry. For partners, this creates a consistent approach to deploying, securing, and managing fleets of AI agents across customer environments with streamlined governance and operational clarity.

As the Microsoft Ignite conference comes to a close, it’s clear that Microsoft Azure and AI will play a significant role in the future of business and technology. With these updates and announcements, partners can deliver intelligent solutions, drive operational efficiency, and differentiate their products or services in the market, all while staying ahead of the curve in the era of Frontier transformation.

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