Microsoft Azure OpenAI

    Last verification date: 2026-07-28

    Azure OpenAI guidance emphasizes system message design, prompt engineering techniques, chat completions, function calling, structured outputs, models, and evaluation. Stable guidance: define role, boundaries, output format, and uncertainty behavior. Model-specific guidance: deployment names, service features, and model availability can change by region.

    ## Official sources used

    - [Azure OpenAI prompt engineering](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/prompt-engineering)

• Azure OpenAI system message design
• Azure OpenAI chat how-to
• Azure OpenAI function calling

  ## Stale quickly
  
  - service naming.
  

  • deployment parameters.
  • evaluation tooling.