[In preview] Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry

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In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now lets customers govern the outbound connections a hosted agent can make. Customers author ordered rules matched on destination host, including FQDN with wildcards such as *.contoso.com, with actions to allow, deny,

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