Azure.Mcp.Server 3.0.0-beta.9

New Backup MUA control, expanded VM image options, and faster CLI startup ⚡

This release adds a new Azure Backup command to configure Multi-User Authorization (MUA) and introduces new VM image aliases, including Windows Server 2022 (1P) and Ubuntu 26.04. It also updates VM and VMSS creation to require the --image parameter, along with cleanup of deprecated image aliases. Additionally, CLI startup performance has been significantly improved, reducing invocation time by ~39%.

The current individual tool count is: 321

📃 Refer to the CHANGELOG for a full list of changes in this and previous versions.
📦 You can also find the published package on the following platforms:

• 🧩 IDE Extensions:
  • 🔷 Visual Studio Code: ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server
  • 💜 Visual Studio 2022: github-copilot-azure.GitHubCopilotForAzure2022
  • 💜 Visual Studio 2026: Azure and AI Development workload
  • ☕ IntelliJ IDEA: 8053-azure-toolkit-for-intellij
  • 🌒 Eclipse IDE: azure-toolkit-eclipse
• 🤖 NuGet: Azure.Mcp
• 📦 NPM: @azure/mcp
• 🐳 Docker: azure-sdk/azure-mcp
• 💬Plugin for Claude and GitHub Copilot CLI: azure-copilot-plugin
• 🐍 PyPI: msmcp-azure
• 🧰 MCP Bundles
  • Linux: x64 | ARM64
  • macOS: x64 | ARM64
  • Windows: x64 | ARM64