📢 Today we launched the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework! With this extension, you can host and orchestrate agents natively in Azure Durable Functions. Both .NET and Python are supported.

The real superpower of AI agents isn’t telling you the weather. It’s automating entire processes that rely on complex language understanding — something needed everywhere but impractical until just a few years ago.

I discuss this a bit more (including some implementation strategies) in a blog post I wrote earlier this year:

There are two main approaches to multi-agent orchestration: deterministic workflows, which provide predictability and reliability (great for business process automation), and AI-directed orchestration, which offer adaptability and creative innovation. The former is good for

🚀The Azure Functions MCP extension is now GA, making it easier than ever to host remote MCP servers. And now you can also host MCP SDK–based servers on Functions. If you've already built these servers, just deploy as-is. Serverless, secured, and flexible.

Huge Azure Functions drop at #Ignite2025: https://t.co/Q5eQQIWP6j #Azure #Serverless #AzureFunctions

Events are the Wrong Abstraction (great talk by Mason Egger):

I'll be at #msignite this year as a lab speaker for LAB514: "Build and deploy AI agents with MCP and Azure Functions". I'll also be hanging out at the Azure Container Apps and Azure Functions booth. Hope to see folks there! 🙂

Or if you prefer videos, we have a ~7-minute overview here:

Check out the announcement blog post for more information:

With this extension, you can: - expose stateful agents as HTTP or MCP endpoints - create deterministic multi-agent orchestrations - distribute agents and tool calls across thousands of nodes - visually debug agent interactions using the durable task scheduler

The next frontier for durable execution is data applications. Small payload limits and no scale-out compute for ingest/transform make building agentic data applications with Durable Execution cumbersome. Take an agent that scrapes https://t.co/ApJe8FFWCO daily, parses PDFs, and

The team just released OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions! Learn more about it in this blog post by Nick Greenfield:

🚀 Early preview: Bring-Your-Own Remote MCP Server on Azure Functions! Keep your existing Python/Node/.NET MCP code and just host remotely on Flex Consumption plan w/ bursty, event-driven scaling, built-in security & serverless pricing. Try it now! https://t.co/MJ8AdY1o42 #MCP

Kazuki even put together a lab! You can find the code and instructions (in English) here:

This is awesome: Deep research implementation in .NET using Azure OpenAI and Azure Durable Functions. Both reliable and serverless!

Learn more about the orchestration versioning feature here:

In addition to Durable Functions, the standalone Durable Task SDK for .NET (which can be used with the Durable Task Scheduler backend) also supports the orchestration versioning feature.

The orchestration versioning feature is now available for .NET isolated Durable Function apps using any of the supported storage providers, including the latest durable task scheduler.