Develop AI Agents on Azure (AI-3026)

Develop 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
• Exercise: Build and deploy an AI agent

Integrate Custom Tools into Your Agent

• Why use custom tools
• Options for implementing custom tools
• Integrate custom tools with AI agents
• Exercise: Build an agent with custom tools

Integrate MCP Tools with Azure AI Agents

• Understand MCP tool discovery
• Integrate agent tools using MCP servers and clients
• Use Azure AI agents with MCP servers
• Exercise: Connect MCP tools to Azure AI Agents

Build Knowledge-Enhanced AI Agents with Foundry IQ

• Understand Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for agents
• Explore Foundry IQ
• Configure data sources for knowledge bases
• Configure retrieval using Foundry IQ
• Exercise: Integrate an AI agent with Foundry IQ

Integrate Your Agent with Microsoft 365

• Understand Foundry agent publishing options
• Publish agents to Microsoft Teams
• Use the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
• Access Microsoft 365 data with Work IQ
• Test and refine integrated agents
• Exercise: Publish a Foundry agent to Teams

Build Agent-Driven Workflows Using Microsoft Foundry

• Understand workflow concepts
• Identify workflow patterns
• Create workflows in Microsoft Foundry
• Add agents to workflows
• Apply Power Fx in workflows
• Maintain workflows
• Use workflows in code
• Exercise: Create an agent-driven workflow

Develop 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 agents
• Exercise: Develop an Azure AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework

Orchestrate a Multi-Agent Solution Using Microsoft Agent Framework

• Understand Microsoft Agent Framework
• Understand agent orchestration
• Implement concurrent orchestration
• Implement sequential orchestration
• Implement group chat orchestration
• Implement handoff orchestration
• Implement Magentic orchestration
• Exercise: Develop a multi-agent solution

Discover Azure AI Agents with A2A

• Define an A2A agent
• Implement an agent executor
• Host an A2A server
• Connect to an A2A agent
• Exercise: Connect to remote Azure AI Agents with the A2A protocol