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Curious about building AI agents but unsure where to start? This course offers a clear and practical introduction to the tools and strategies available for creating agents and/or extending Microsoft 365 Copilot. You'll explore the core components of AI agents and gain insight into the business value and real-world use cases they support. Through practical guidance, real-world use cases, and demos, you'll compare Microsoft’s agent solutions—including Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit—and evaluate both low-code and pro-code development approaches. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to choose the right development path for your goals.

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What You'll Learn

  • Describe the prerequisites for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • Explain how Microsoft 365 Copilot works.
  • Understand the Microsoft 365 Copilot service and tenant logical architecture.
  • Describe how to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using plugins and Microsoft Graph connectors.
  • Explain how Copilot and agents work together to create a personalized, intelligent assistant with the knowledge and skills unique to your business.
  • Describe the types of agents and the wide spectrum of capabilities with which they can be customized.
  • Explain how to ground your Copilot responses with multiple enterprise data sources for more relevant and reliable responses.
  • Decide whether to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using its existing orchestrator or to build a custom engine agent, based on their specific needs and goals.
  • Gain insights into the various development tools and methods available, whether they prefer pro-code or low-code/no-code solutions, and how to set up their development environment for building these extensions.
  • Understand the different ways to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot, including using declarative agents, custom engine agents, plugins, and connectors.
  • Explain data privacy and security considerations for developing each extensibility option.
  • Understand how to set up and configure connections for Microsoft Graph connectors to enhance search within Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • Understand what the semantic search index is, and how it relates to Microsoft Graph connectors.
  • Describe the importance of search schema attributes, refresh intervals, and crawl scheduling for efficient data synchronization.
  • Evaluate whether a declarative agent is appropriate to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot for your scenario.
  • Describe how the components of a declarative agent work together to create agents that run on Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • Describe how to enable or disable Copilot extensibility.
  • Understand how to manage permissions and control data access to your extensions.

Who Should Attend

Introduction to building AI agents is designed for builders and developers who want to build AI agents on Microsoft's agent platform. It's ideal for learners who are new to agent development or evaluating Microsoft's options, and who want to understand how to choose the right tools, ground and connect agents to their data and systems, and plan an agent solution end to end. Learners come from both low-code and pro-code backgrounds; no prior agent development experience is required.

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Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot
  • Basic knowledge of generative AI concepts
  • Familiarity with core Microsoft Cloud platforms (Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Azure)

Learning Journey

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Module 1: Introduction to building AI agents

Explore how AI agents work, tour Microsoft's agent development platform — including Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — and learn how to plan and design an agent solution for your scenario.

Module 2: Introduction to developing AI agents

Explore what AI agents are, understand their core components, and discover a range of impactful use cases driving AI-powered transformation.

Module 3: Choose tools and services for your agent on Microsoft's agent platform

Explore the tools and services Microsoft provides across each area of agent development so you can select the options that fit your agent scenario and requirements.

Module 4: Plan an AI agent solution

Plan a complete AI agent solution on Microsoft's agent platform — from defining outcomes and success metrics to mapping data sources and workflows, choosing interaction patterns and channels, and establishing an identity, governance, and responsible AI posture.

 

 

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