About this tag
The planning tag on WindowsForum.com covers a range of topics where planning is a key activity, from software development workflows to public sector decision-making. In Visual Studio 17.14, a built-in Planning workflow enables multi-step task automation for developers. Microsoft's AI agents course includes planning as a core agent design pattern. A notable real-world example involves Bath Rugby's stadium planning application, where Microsoft Copilot summarized thousands of public comments. Azure AI Foundry supports planning in multi-agent orchestration for enterprise automation. Other discussions touch on Windows deployment planning, incident response planning, and Dynamics CRM implementation planning. The tag reflects planning in both technical and organizational contexts.
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    Visual Studio 17.14 Copilot Adds Memories Planning Claude Models and BYOM

    Microsoft’s October 2025 Visual Studio update (v17.14) moves Copilot from a contextual helper to a more autonomous, repository‑aware collaborator — adding Memories that persist project preferences, a built‑in Planning workflow for multi‑step tasks, instruction files for repo‑scoped rules...
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    Microsoft AI Agents: 12 Hands-On Lessons to Build Production-Ready Agents

    Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...
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    Bath Rugby Stadium: AI Summaries in Local Planning and Public Consultation

    Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...
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    Azure AI Foundry: The Agent Factory for End-to-End Enterprise Automation

    Azure’s new “Agent Factory” argument reframes the enterprise AI conversation: move beyond retrieval and chat to agents that reason, act, reflect, and collaborate—and use that capability to complete end-to-end business outcomes, not just return answers. The announcement and technical framing...
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    Incident Detection & Response: Planning for the Inevitable

    Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour The threat of a cyberattack is so eminent, organizations can no longer simply put up defenses and hope either they aren’t attacked, or defenses will hold should one Continue reading...
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    Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation Guide for CRM Online and CRM 2015 (on-premises)

    This guide contains comprehensive information about how to plan, install, configure, customize, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Link Removed
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Blog: Designing the Windows 8 Calendar app

    Microsoft Engineering team blog follows on from the building mail app blog: Link Removed and details the Calendar app. Full article: Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Deployment Question and Answer

    This Advisory Services scenario is designed to assist customers who are in the proactive planning stages of an operating system deployment and would like to work through their plans with our team and address questions they have encountered in the... Link Removed
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    Windows 7 C++ ALM -> Architecture Tools and Unit Testing for Visual C++ Developers - What's Next?

    One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio Ultimate offers many “out of...
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    Windows 7 Applying SDL Requirements practices within Windows Azure

    Robert Mooney and Chris Weber explain the similarities and differences in planning for security and privacy when deploying to Windows Azure, and explain how to map the existing and new risks to the cloud-based environment. Link Removed More...
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    Sneak peek: Is this Windows 8 App Store?

    Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8 suggested that the company was creating its own Windows App Store — a central place to find, buy, download, update and manage software. Now, an apparent leak from a preliminary version of Windows 8 gives a sense for what Microsoft’s own Windows...
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    Windows 7 Cloud Cover Episode 39 - Dynamically Deploying Websites in a Web Role

    Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by Nate Totten—a developer from Thuzi—as they look at a solution for dynamically deploying websites in a Windows Azure Web...
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    Prepping the great Windows 7 migration

    Decisions are easy, jobs are hard Deciding to move to Windows 7 is the easy bit. The crunch comes in planning and executing the migration. Should it be a big bang or incremental? How much new hardware and software is needed? What can go wrong?… More...
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    Windows 7 Movalys Dashboard for Windows Phone 7: News from Mobile World Congress

    "Movalys Dashboard" allows the user to view dashboards with data of our other product "Movalys Intervention". This product manages maintenance interventions and optimizes the associated planning. The user of "Movalys Dashboard" can refresh statistics like he wants, he can also change the url to...
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    Research and Markets: Plan, Select, and Deploy Windows 7 the Right Way

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of Info-Tech Research Group's new report "Plan, Select, and Deploy Windows 7 the Right Way" to their offering. More...
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    Windows 7 migration: Making the move

    You've made the decision to move the company to Windows 7, so now is the time to make plans for the migration itself ( ZDNet UK - IT At Work ) Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Moving to Windows 7: What to watch out for

    Knee deep in the migration? Tune in Webcast According to you (pdf) , dear reader, you're probably thinking about shifting to Windows 7 in the not too distant future. For some of you it’s imminent, while some of you are already knee-deep in the migration. Others are trying to figure out where and...
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    Windows 7 migration: Calculating the costs (part 2)

    Moving to Windows 7 doesn't just involve desktop hardware and software. Here we examine the additional costs you will need to plan for ( ZDNet UK - IT At Work ) Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Prepare for your Windows 7 Migration Crunch

    Avoid the cost overruns and skills shortages that will affect many Windows 7 migration plans. This practical paper from leading analyst Garter explains how. Link Removed due to 404 Error