Microsoft Ignite 2025 showcased transformative innovations for Azure and Microsoft 365 users. From AI-powered security to agent governance, these updates present clear opportunities to accelerate change and unlock new value. Knowing how to use these technologies is the first step to gaining a strategic edge.
At Redapt, we help organizations adopt, optimize, and scale these technologies quickly and securely. Our expertise ensures you can move from announcement to implementation with confidence. Here are five impactful announcements from Ignite 2025 and how we can help you leverage them to succeed.
1. Security Copilot Now Included in Microsoft 365 E5
What's New: Security Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered security assistant, is now included with Microsoft 365 E5 licenses at no extra cost. This robust tool automates threat detection, simplifies incident response, and streamlines compliance processes. It connects directly with Defender, Entra, Intune, and Purview to offer a unified security stance.
Why It Matters: This announcement makes advanced, AI-driven security instantly available for organizations with E5 licenses. For those on E3 or other plans, it provides a strong reason to upgrade and strengthen their defenses against complex threats. Security Copilot helps teams respond to incidents more quickly and efficiently, reducing manual effort and lowering risk.
How Redapt Helps: Moving from access to optimization is critical. We partner with you to ensure a seamless transition and maximize your return on investment. Our services include:
- Rapid Deployment: We handle the rapid deployment and configuration of Security Copilot to align with your specific security policies and operational needs.
- SOC Workflow Automation: Our team helps automate your Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows and can develop custom agents to address unique threat vectors.
- Team Training: We provide comprehensive training for your security teams, empowering them to use Security Copilot to its full potential and enhance their defensive capabilities.
Ready to activate Security Copilot? Let's build your AI-driven defense strategy together.
2. Agent 365: Governance for Your AI Agents
What's New: As AI becomes more integrated into business processes, managing it becomes crucial. Microsoft introduced Agent 365 to offer centralized identity, compliance, and observability for all AI agents across Microsoft 365 and Azure. This framework is built to oversee both custom-built agents and Microsoft's own Copilots.
Why It Matters: The growth of AI agents can lead to "Shadow AI"—unregulated, unchecked tools that pose serious security and compliance challenges. Agent 365 offers the essential control tower to oversee your entire AI environment. It ensures that as you expand AI use, you keep complete visibility and comply with internal policies and external regulations.
How Redapt Helps: Effective governance is the foundation of a scalable and secure AI strategy. We provide the expertise to implement a robust framework from the start. Our collaborative approach includes:
- Agent Governance Assessments: We evaluate your current AI landscape and develop a tailored governance model to mitigate risk and ensure compliance.
- Lifecycle Management: Our team establishes processes for managing the complete lifecycle of both custom and Copilot agents, from development to retirement.
- Secure Identity Integration: We integrate Agent 365 with Entra Agent ID to establish secure, verifiable identities for every AI agent operating in your environment.
Secure your AI ecosystem by partnering with us to develop a comprehensive governance plan.
3. Azure Copilot for Cloud Operations
What's New: Microsoft has expanded Azure Copilot's capabilities to automate complex cloud operations. Using agentic workflows, Azure Copilot can now manage tasks like cloud migrations, cost optimization, performance troubleshooting, and infrastructure provisioning. It acts as an intelligent partner for your cloud engineering and operations teams.
Why It Matters: This upgrade to Azure Copilot significantly reduces the manual effort required to manage a large-scale cloud setup. Automating both routine and complex tasks allows your technical teams to concentrate on innovation and strategic projects. This helps accelerate modernization, enhances operational efficiency, and lowers the total cost of ownership.
How Redapt Helps: Automation is only as effective as the strategy behind it. We ensure Azure Copilot is configured to drive measurable business outcomes. Our services are designed to support your operational goals:
- Azure Modernization Packages: We leverage Azure Copilot within our modernization frameworks to streamline migrations and application refactoring.
- Cost and Compliance Tuning: Our experts guide Azure Copilot in identifying cost-saving opportunities and enforcing compliance policies across your Azure estate.
- Proactive Performance Management: We help you implement proactive monitoring and automated remediation workflows to maintain optimal performance and reliability.
Transform your cloud operations. Let's automate your path to a modern, efficient cloud.
4. Microsoft Foundry + Anthropic Partnership
What's New: Microsoft Foundry, the platform for building and running custom AI models, now supports Anthropic's Claude 3 model family alongside OpenAI's GPT models. This integration enables enterprises to build multi-model AI solutions, choosing the best model for a specific task or compliance requirement.
Why It Matters: This partnership provides essential flexibility for enterprises, particularly those in regulated industries such as finance and healthcare. The ability to select among top AI models enables organizations to develop more advanced and specialized applications. It prevents vendor lock-in and opens opportunities for creating sophisticated agents that can reason across multiple domains more accurately and safely.
How Redapt Assists: Developing effective AI solutions demands extensive knowledge in both model functionality and enterprise design. We support you from initial idea to deployment, prioritizing security and scalability.
We provide:
- Custom Agent Development: We design and build custom AI agents that leverage the unique strengths of both Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT models.
- AI Model Integration: Our team excels at integrating multiple AI models into industry-specific workflows to address complex business challenges.
- Compliance-Ready Deployments: We ensure your AI solutions are deployed in a manner that meets stringent regulatory and data privacy requirements.
Build more innovative AI solutions. We can help you select and integrate the right models for your business.
5. Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ for Enterprise Data Context
What’s New: Microsoft introduced Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ to unify an organization’s entire data estate into a cohesive semantic layer. These services create a "digital brain" that understands the relationships between disparate data sources, providing richer context for AI models to reason and generate insights.
Why It Matters: Data is the fuel for AI, but siloed and unstructured data restricts its potential. Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ convert your disconnected data assets into an intelligent, queryable foundation. This enables AI systems to gain a deep understanding of your business context, resulting in more accurate insights, better decision-making, and more powerful intelligent automation throughout the enterprise.
How Redapt Helps: Unlocking the value of your data requires a strategic approach to integration and governance. We ensure your data estate is prepared to power the next generation of AI. Our partnership delivers:
- Data Readiness Assessments: We assess the state of your data and create a clear roadmap for integrating it with Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ.
- IQ Integration Projects: Our data engineers lead end-to-end projects to build and deploy your unified semantic layer, connecting key business systems.
- Governance and Security Alignment: We ensure your data foundation is built with robust governance and security controls from the ground up.
Unlock your data's potential. Let’s collaborate to create an intelligent data foundation for your business.
Your Strategic Partner for Transformation
The innovations announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 are more than just incremental updates—they are transformative opportunities. Achieving their full potential requires a partner who understands both the technology and your business goals. Redapt helps you implement, govern, and optimize these solutions to achieve measurable results.
Let’s make your next move a strategic one. Contact Redapt today to discuss how we can help you turn these announcements into a competitive advantage.
