AI-103 Day 1: Build Your First AI Agent in Microsoft Foundry

🎯 FREE AI-103 Exam Guide — Become an Azure AI Engineer 👉 https://visit.k21academy.com/4e5a29 📘 Join Our Free Masterclass - https://visit.k21academy.com/eae25c If you're a .NET or Java developer wondering where AI fits into your career, this is your starting point. Microsoft Foundry is the platform Microsoft built to let developers create AI apps and AI agents — and in this session, we go hands-on: creating a project, deploying a model, and building a real working agent from scratch inside Foundry itself. This is part of our AI-103 (Azure AI Engineer Associate) series, where we walk through exactly what the exam covers and how to actually build with it — not just memorize it. Today's focus is Generative AI and Agents; future sessions in this series move into NLP solutions and information extraction. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Why this matters for .NET/Java developers 01:11 – What AI-103 actually covers (4 core areas) 02:18 – Who this course is for 04:08 – The 5 topics we'll cover across this series 06:03 – Today's focus: Generative AI in Azure 06:51 – Plan & prepare: choosing the right AI solution 12:02 – What is Microsoft Foundry? 14:08 – Creating your first Foundry resource (live demo) 23:24 – Tour of the Foundry portal 26:38 – Tools deep dive: custom tools vs. MCP tools 29:12 – What actually is a "tool" in an agent? 31:01 – Building your first agent (email management demo) 36:19 – Recap: agent = LLM + tools + knowledge 37:23 – Connecting knowledge sources (AI Search, SharePoint) 39:14 – Using Azure AI services as agent tools 47:46 – Installing the Foundry Toolkit in VS Code 53:38 – Full hands-on: building a Foundry project step by step 56:02 – Model playground: instructions, temperature, tokens 1:02:57 – Foundry Toolkit walkthrough inside VS Code 1:14:34 – Building & connecting an agent to Microsoft 365 1:22:06 – Publishing your agent to Teams/M365 Copilot 1:30:50 – Exploring 1,000+ available models 1:43:50 – Comparing models by quality, safety, and speed 1:47:37 – Evaluating model performance (manual vs. automatic) 1:55:15 – What's next in this series 🎯 FREE AI-103 Exam Guide — Become an Azure AI Engineer 👉 https://visit.k21academy.com/4e5a29 📘 Join Our Free Masterclass - https://visit.k21academy.com/eae25c #MicrosoftFoundry #AI103 #AzureAIEngineer #AIAgent #DotNetDeveloper #JavaDeveloper #AzureAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #CareerTransition #K21Academy #AIEngineer