Display warning message during install/first setup of Azure MCP extension when organizational policies are set to disable mcp
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Description
When organizational policies are disabled or not set in github, the enablement of mcp servers are set to disable by default.
The Policy Diagnostics viewer in VSCode shows -
| chat_preview_features_enabled | false |
| chat_agent_enabled | true |
**| mcp | false |**
When users install the Azure MCP, we need a way of displaying a warning via toast notification or other ways to alert the user on this behavior -
Sample message "Your organizational policies have MCP servers disabled. Please contact admin for access" or something to that effect. @charris-msft please feel free to suggest appropriate verbiage
Here's an example of what VSCode does today to display organization level setting -
CC: @g2vinay , @joshfree , @charris-msft
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