Develop AI agents on Azure [AI-3026]

Learn how to build, test, and deploy AI agents using Microsoft Foundry Agent Service through both the Azure portal and Visual Studio Code extension.

- Understand AI agents and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
- Explore development approaches
- Build your first agent in Microsoft Foundry
- Set up Visual Studio Code for agent development
- Configure and manage agetns in Visual Studio Code
- Extend agent capabilities with tools
- Test, deploy, and integrate agents
- Exercise - Build and deploy an AI agent

Built-in tools are useful, but they may not meet all your needs. In this module, learn how to extend the capabilities of your agent by integrating custom tools for your agent to use.

- Why use custom tools
- Options for implementing custom tools
- How to integrate custom tools
- Exercise - Build an agent with custom tools

Enable dynamic tool access for your Azure AI agents. Learn how to connect MCP-hosted tools and integrate them seamlessly into agent workflows.

- Understand MCP tool discovery
- Integrate agent tools using an MCP server and client
- Use Azure AI agents with MCP servers
- Exercise - Connect MCP tools to Azure AI agents

Learn how to connect AI agents with enterprise knowledge using Foundry IQ. You'll explore how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solves the knowledge problem for AI agents, discover how Foundry IQ provides a shared knowledge platform that multiple agents can access, improve retrieval quality through data optimization, and configure agent instructions for consistent, cited responses.

- Understanding RAG for agents
- Explore Foundry IQ
- Configure data sources for knowledge bases
- Configure retrieval with Foundry IQ
- Exercise - Integrate an AI agent with Foundry IQ

Learn how to publish Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, access workplace data with Work IQ, and test your integrated agents.

- Understand Foundry agent publishing options
- Publish an agent from Foundry portal to Teams
- Advanced - Use Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
- Access Microsoft 365 data with Work IQ
- Test and iterate your integrated agent
- Exercise - Publish a Foundry agent to Teams

Workflows enable you to orchestrate AI agents and other components to create intelligent applications. Learn how to build and manage workflows using Microsoft Foundry.

This module provides engineers with the skills to begin building Microsoft Foundry Agent Service agents with Microsoft Agent Framework.

Learn how to use Microsoft Agent Framework SDK to develop your own AI agents that can collaborate for a multi-agent solution.

- Understand the Microsoft Agent Framework
- Understand agent orchestration
- Use concurrents orchestration
- Use sequential orchestration
- Use group chat orchestration
- Use handoff orchestration
- Use Magentic orchestration
- Exercise - Develop a multi-agent solution

Learn how to implement the A2A protocol to enable agent discovery, direct communication, and coordinated task execution across remote agents.
Define an A2A agent