Develop AI Apps and Agents on Azure AI-103T00
Learn to build AI infused applications that leverage Microsoft Foundry.
- 2 upcoming dates 2 open for booking
- $2,495 per seat
Upcoming dates
| Dates | Where | Status | Seat | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5–8 2026 | Live Online 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM PT | Confirmed to run Partner led | $2,495 | |
| Dec 7–10 2026 | Live Online 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM PT | Confirmed to run Partner led | $2,495 |
About this class
This course is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Microsoft Foundry. Topics in this course include developing generative AI apps, building AI agents, and solutions that implement knowledge connections or tools in your agentic applications. This course also covers multimodal capabilities and understanding of complex content.
Who Should Attend?
This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Microsoft Foundry. They are familiar with Python and have knowledge on using APIs and SDKs to build agents and generative AI solutions on Azure.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure
- Develop a generative AI chat app with Microsoft
- Develop generative AI apps that use tools
- Optimize generative AI model performance with
- Implement a responsible generative AI solution in
- Develop AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and
- Integrate custom tools into your agent
- Integrate MCP Tools with Azure AI Agents
- Build knowledge - enhanced AI agents with Foundry
- Integrate your agent with Microsoft 365
- Build agent - driven workflows using Microsoft
- Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent
- Orchestrate a multi - agent solution using the
- Discover Azure AI Agents with A2A
- Analyze text with Azure Language in Foundry Tools
- Develop a text analysis agent with the Azure
- Develop a speech -capable generative AI application
- Create speech -enabled apps with Azure Speech in
- Develop a speech agent with the Azure Speech MCP
- Develop an Azure Speech Voice Live Agent in
- Translate text and speech with Microsoft Foundry
- Develop a vision - enabled generative AI application
- Generate images with AI
- Generate videos with Microsoft Foundry
- Analyze images with Content Understanding
- Create a multimodal analysis solution with Azure
- Create an Azure Content Understanding client
- Extract data with Azure Document Intelligence
- Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI
Course outline
Module 1Plan and prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure
- What is AI?
- Microsoft Foundry
- s on
- Azure.
Module 2
- Foundry Tools
- Developer tools and SDKs
- Responsible AI
- Module assessment
- Explore the model catalog
- Select models using benchmarks
- Deploy models to endpoints
- Evaluate model performance
- models
- Explore with the model playground
Module 3Develop a generative AI chat app with Microsoft
- Foundry
- Choose an endpoint and SDK
- Generate responses with the Responses API
- Generate responses with the ChatCompletions API
Module 4Develop generative AI apps that use tools
- What are tools?
- Use the code_interpreter tool
- Use the web_search tool
- Use the file_search tool
- Use the functions tool
- Module assessment
Module 5Optimize generative AI model performance with
- Microsoft Foundry
- Optimize model output with prompt engineering
- Ground your model with Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Fine- tune a model for consistent behavior
- Compare and combine optimization strategies
- Module assessment
Module 6Implement a responsible generative AI solution in
- Microsoft Foundry
- Plan a responsible generative AI solution
- Map potential harms
- Measure potential harms
- Mitigate potential harms
- Manage a responsible generative AI solution
- Module assessment
Module 7Develop AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and
- Visual Studio Code
- 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 agents in Visual Studio Code
- Extend agent capabilities with tools
- Test, deploy, and integrate agents
Module 8Integrate custom tools into your agent
- Why use custom tools
- Options for implementing custom tools
- How to integrate custom tools
- Module assessment
Module 9Integrate MCP Tools with Azure AI Agents
- Understand MCP tool discovery
- Integrate agent tools using an MCP server and client
- Use Azure AI agents with MCP servers
- Module assessment
Module 10Build knowledge - enhanced AI agents with Foundry
- IQ
- Understanding RAG for agents
- Explore Foundry IQ
- Configure data sources for knowledge bases
- Configure retrieval with Foundry IQ
Module 11Integrate your agent with Microsoft 365
- 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
Module 12Build agent - driven workflows using Microsoft
- Foundry
- Understand Workflows
- Identify Workflow Patterns
- Create workflows in Microsoft Foundry
- Add Agents to a Workflow
- Apply Power Fx in Workflows
- Maintain Workflows in Microsoft Foundry
- Use workflows in code
- Module Assessment
Module 13Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent
- Framework
- Understand Microsoft Agent Framework AI agents
- Create an Azure AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework
- Add tools to Azure AI agent
Module 14Orchestrate a multi - agent solution using the
- Microsoft Agent Framework
- Understand the Microsoft Agent Framework
- Understand agent orchestration
- Use concurrent orchestration
- Use sequential orchestration
- Use group chat orchestration
- Use handoff orchestration
- Use Magentic orchestration
Module 15Discover Azure AI Agents with A2A
- Define an A2A agent
- Implement an agent executor
- Host an A2A server
- Connect to your A2A agent
- Module assessment
Module 16Analyze text with Azure Language in Foundry Tools
- Azure Language in Microsoft Foundry Tools
- Detect language
- Extract entities
- Extract personally identifiable information (PII)
- Module assessment
Module 17Develop a text analysis agent with the Azure
- Language MCP server
- Understand the Azure Language MCP server
- Connect and use the Language MCP server with an agent
Module 18Develop a speech -capable generative AI application
- Choose a speech - capable model
- Transcribe speech
- Synthesize speech
- Module assessment
Module 19Create speech -enabled apps with Azure Speech in
- Microsoft Foundry Tools
- Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
- Use the Speech to Text API
- Use the Text to Speech API
- Configure audio format and voices
- Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language
- Module assessment
Module 20Develop a speech agent with the Azure Speech MCP
- server
- Understand the Azure Speech MCP server
- Connect and use the Speech MCP server with an agent
Module 21Develop an Azure Speech Voice Live Agent in
- Microsoft Foundry
- Explore the Azure Voice Live API
- Explore the AI Voice Live client library for Python
- Create a Voice Live agent
- Module assessment
Module 22Translate text and speech with Microsoft Foundry
- Tools
- Translation in Microsoft Foundry
- Translate text
- Translate speech
- Module assessment
Module 23Develop a vision - enabled generative AI application
- Use a vision - capable model in the Microsoft Foundry portal
- Develop a vision- based chat app
- Module assessment
Module 24Generate images with AI
- What are image- generation models?
- Explore image- generation models in Microsoft Foundry portal
- Create a client application that uses an image generation model
- Module assessment
Module 25Generate videos with Microsoft Foundry
- Deploy a video generating model
- Generate video from a prompt
- Generate video in Python
- Module assessment
Module 26Analyze images with Content Understanding
- What is Content Understanding?
- Analyze images with Content Understanding
- Module assessment
Module 27Create a multimodal analysis solution with Azure
- Content Understanding
- What is Azure Content Understanding?
- Create a Content Understanding analyzer
- Use the Content Understanding API
- Module assessment
Module 28Create an Azure Content Understanding client
- application
- Prepare to use the AI Content Understanding API
- Create a Content Understanding analyzer
- Analyze content
- Module assessment
Module 29Extract data with Azure Document Intelligence
- What is Azure Document Intelligence?
- Use the Document Intelligence Studio
- Use prebuilt models
- Train and use custom models
- Module assessment
Module 30Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI
- Search
- What is Azure AI Search?
- Extract data with an indexer
- Enrich extracted data with AI skills
- Search an index
- Persist extracted information in a knowledge store
- Module assessment
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Who this is for
- This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and
- deploying AI solutions that leverage Microsoft Foundry. They are familiar with Python and
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