Cloud and AI Platform
Innovate with Azure AI Apps and Agents
Intermediate
Microsoft FoundryBuild AI apps and agents with Azure
This course is designed for professionals who want to deepen their expertise in leveraging Microsoft Foundry to build, deploy, and manage sophisticated Generative AI apps and agents. Participants will explore advanced concepts, best practices, securing and governing the AI Solutions and real-world applications of GenAI apps and agents, gaining hands-on experience with the platform’s powerful tools and capabilities.
12 hours(Suggested: 3 days, 4h/day)TechnicalProject ReadyHands-on Labs
MS Course ID: 00343
Last Updated: Dec 16, 2025
Course Syllabus
1
Architect enterprise AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry
Module 1: Foundations of AI & agentic architecture
• Architect enterprise solutions with Agentic AI
• AI apps and agents - concepts, roles, and behaviors
• Choose the right approach to build apps and agents
Module 2: Accelerate innovation with
• Microsoft Foundry
• Microsoft Foundry for enterprise AI and agents
• Microsoft Foundry SDK for app & agent development
• Build AI apps and agents that scale - Foundry Agent Service
• Understand Responses APIs
• Power your agents with the Microsoft Foundry model suite
• Optimize model selection with the Model Router
• Develop apps and agents with Azure OpenAI
Module 3: Build multi agent apps and agents with Microsoft Agent Framework
• Microsoft Agent Framework - The open-source engine for Agentic AI apps
• Microsoft Agent Framework workflows
120 mins
Lecture
2
Hands on labs
• Use case 1 - Developing Multimodal AI Applications for Image Classification
• Use case 2 - Modernize your code with agents with Microsoft Foundry
• Use case 3 - Prototyping multimodal agents with Microsoft Foundry and the AI Toolkit
120 mins
Lab
3
Scale and orchestrate custom AI agents and applications
Module 4: Drive business results with action-oriented, context-aware agents
• Combine intelligence across Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ
• Empower agents to act using Foundry Tools
• Azure AI Search essentials
• Understand classic search
• Understand agentic retrieval
• Enhance your search with Foundry IQ
• Native Azure AI Search Indexing in Foundry
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for accurate and trusted responses
• Custom model adaptation with fine tuningTechniques
• Understand Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning
• Understand distillation and synthetic datageneration
120 mins
Lecture
4
Hands on labs
• Use case 4 - Deploying and Testing a Custom Chat Application with PostgreSQL
• Use case 5 - Developing Intelligent Chat Applications with Azure RAG (Using Python)
• Use case 6 - Develop an AI-Powered Copilot for Financial Advisors with Microsoft Foundry
120 mins
Lab
5
Build safe and compliant AI agents with Microsoft Foundry
Module 5: Agent observability, security and governance with Microsoft Foundry
• Build generative AI workloads with Well-Architected Framework
• Foundry Control Plane - Govern the AI lifecycle with observability and controls
• Continuously monitor and evaluate your agents
• Understand the AI Red Teaming Agent
• Understand Agent tracing overview
• Ensure safe AI outputs with Azure AI Content Safety
• Microsoft Agent 365 - the control plane for agents
• Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra ID
120 mins
Lecture
6
Hands on labs
• Use case 07- Safeguard your agents with AI Red Teaming Agent in Microsoft Foundry
• Use case 08-Moderate text and images with content safety in Azure AI Content Safety Studio
• Use case 09- Building Video Generation Workflows using Sora Model
• Use case 10: Deploying and Evaluating Fine-Tuned GPT Models in Azure AI Projects
120 mins
Lab
What You'll Learn
Understand core concepts and best practices
Hands-on experience with real-world scenarios
Learn from certified Microsoft experts
Prepare for relevant certifications
Access to lab environments
Post-training support and resources
Course Details
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Level
- Intermediate
- Role
- Technical
- Course Type
- Project Ready
- Partner Segment
- SMB, Enterprise
- Course Stage
- Available
- Hands-on Labs
- Yes