AI-103T00: Develop AI apps and agents on Azure

AI-103T00: Develop AI apps and agents on Azure

Duration: 4 Days

About:  This four-day 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.

  • Develop generative AI apps in Azure
  • Develop AI agents on Azure
  • Develop natural language solutions in Azure
  • Extract insights from visual data on Azure

Upcoming Open Enrollment Session
Date:  January 25 - 28, 2027
Fee:  $2495/per attendee plus tax
Time:  10:00 am - 6:00 pm EST
Location:  Virtual, MS Teams
Registration:  Below

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.

 Role - AI Engineer, Developer

Develop generative AI apps in Azure

  • Plan and prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure
    • What is AI?
    • Microsoft Foundry
    • Foundry Tools
    • Developer tools and SDKs
    • Responsible AI
    • Exercise - Prepare for an AI development project
  • Select, deploy, and evaluate Microsoft Foundry models
    • Explore the model catalog
    • Select models using benchmarks
    • Deploy models to endpoints
    • Evaluate model performance
  • Develop a generative AI chat app with Microsoft Foundry
    • Explore with the model playground
    • Choose an endpoint and SDK
    • Generate responses with the Responses API
    • Generate responses with the ChatCompletions API
  • Develop 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
  • Optimize 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
  • Implement 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

Develop AI agents on Azure

  • 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
  • Integrate custom tools into your agent
    • Why use custom tools
    • Options for implementing custom tools
    • How to integrate custom tools
  • Integrate 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
  • Build 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
  • Integrate your agent with Microsoft 365
    • Understand Foundry agent publishing options
    • Publish an agent to Teams
    • Use Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
    • Access Microsoft 365 data with Work IQ
    • Test and iterate your integrated agent
  • Build 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
    • Use workflows in code
  • Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework
    • Understand Microsoft Agent Framework AI agents
    • Create an Azure AI agent
    • Add tools to Azure AI agent
  • Orchestrate a multi-agent solution using 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
  • Discover Azure AI Agents with A2A
    • Introduction
    • Define an A2A agent
    • Implement an agent executor
    • Host an A2A server
    • Connect to your A2A agent

Develop natural language solutions in Azure

  • Analyze text with Azure Language
    • Azure Language in Foundry Tools
    • Detect language
    • Extract entities
    • Extract personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Develop a text analysis agent
    • Understand the Azure Language MCP server
    • Connect and use the Language MCP server
  • Develop a speech-capable generative AI application
    • Choose a speech-capable model
    • Transcribe speech
    • Synthesize speech
  • Create speech-enabled apps
    • 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
  • Develop a speech agent
    • Understand the Azure Speech MCP server
    • Connect and use the Speech MCP server
    • Exercise - Use Azure Speech in an agent
  • Develop an Azure Speech Voice Live Agent
    • Introduction
    • Explore the Azure Voice Live API
    • Explore the AI Voice Live client library
    • Create a Voice Live agent
  • Translate text and speech
    • Introduction
    • Translation in Microsoft Foundry
    • Translate text
    • Translate speech

Extract insights from visual data on Azure

  • Develop a vision-enabled generative AI application
    • Use a vision-capable model
    • Develop a vision-based chat app
  • Generate images with AI
    • What are image-generation models?
    • Explore image-generation models
    • Create a client application
  • Generate videos with Microsoft Foundry
    • Deploy a video generating model
    • Generate video from a prompt
    • Generate video in Python
  • Analyze images with Content Understanding
    • What is Content Understanding?
    • Analyze images
  • Create a multimodal analysis solution
    • What is Azure Content Understanding?
    • Create a Content Understanding analyzer
    • Use the Content Understanding API
  • Create a Content Understanding client application
    • Prepare to use the API
    • Create a Content Understanding analyzer
    • Analyze content
  • Extract data with Azure Document Intelligence
    • What is Azure Document Intelligence?
    • Use the Document Intelligence Studio
    • Use prebuilt models
    • Train and use custom models
  • Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI Search
    • What is Azure AI Search?
    • Extract data with an indexer
    • Enrich data with AI skills
    • Search an index
    • Persist data in a knowledge store
This class has hands-on labs provided by Go Deploy and may also require BYOS for some sections.
Price: $2,495.00
Provincial Tax will be added to your course invoice. A secure payment link will be sent via email. Please email admin@leaflearning365.com if you would like to add additional attendees to this session.