An advanced, hands-on day on Microsoft Foundry, the enterprise AI platform behind 80% of the Fortune 500. Build in your Azure tenant, on your data, with your governance. For organisations already running Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Microsoft Foundry is where Microsoft is putting its enterprise AI effort. This day takes a technical team from familiar Copilot territory into building on it properly.
Know exactly where Foundry sits against Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and Power Platform, and which of your workloads belongs on which.
Build an agent in Foundry Agent Service: model selection, system design, tool binding, function calling and structured outputs, all deployed to your own Azure tenant.
Ground agents in your real estate (SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Data Lake) through Foundry IQ, with Purview governance and permission-aware retrieval intact.
Coordinate specialist agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework: supervisor/worker patterns, hand-offs, and when a single well-built agent beats a swarm.
Run agents like software: Foundry Control Plane, Entra Agent ID, evaluation pipelines, tracing and audit trails your security and compliance teams will accept.
Leave with a costed 90-day plan: candidate workloads ranked, token economics modelled, environment design agreed and owners named.
These are the reference builds the day is structured around. Both deploy to your tenant, and both get adapted live to a workload you bring with you.
An agent that answers staff questions from your real policy and procedure documents in SharePoint. It respects existing file permissions, cites its sources and refuses questions outside its scope. The build most compliance teams approve first.
A supervisor agent that receives incoming requests (invoices, tickets, enquiries), routes them to two specialist worker agents, escalates edge cases to a human, and logs every decision for audit. The pattern behind most production agent deployments.
Most larger clients run both: Copilot Studio for the makers in the business, Foundry for the engineering team that owns the platform. Here's the progression.
Low-code agents inside Microsoft 365, built by power users. No coding.
Pro-code, governed, production agents on the platform itself.
Agents inside Microsoft 365, built by your power users.
Production agents on the enterprise AI platform itself.
You're a developer, solution architect, platform owner or technically-strong IT lead in a larger organisation already on Microsoft 365 and Azure. You've outgrown Copilot experiments and need agents that pass a security review. It's a pro-code day, so you should be comfortable reading Python or C#.
Want low-code agents inside Microsoft 365? Take Copilot Studio in a Day instead. Looking for a strategic overview for senior leaders? That's AI for Leaders. After tool-agnostic fundamentals? Start with Build AI Agents.
Short, sharp theory blocks; long build blocks. Every module ends with working configuration in your tenant, not notes for later.
Foundry vs Copilot Studio vs Azure OpenAI vs Power Platform. Where Microsoft is taking the platform, what got renamed, and what that means for the workloads you already run.
Foundry Agent Service end-to-end: project setup, model selection and routing, instructions, tools and function calling. Deployed and tested in your tenant before coffee.
Foundry IQ knowledge bases over SharePoint and OneLake. Permission-aware retrieval, Purview classification, and why "the agent can see everything" is a failed security review waiting to happen.
Microsoft Agent Framework patterns: supervisor/worker, sequential hand-offs, shared state. Wire two specialist agents to the one you built this morning.
Foundry Control Plane, Entra Agent ID, evaluations, tracing and audit. The artefacts your CISO, DPO and auditors will ask for, built in from the start.
Rank your candidate workloads, model token costs, agree environment and CI/CD design, name owners. You leave with a plan your leadership team can fund.
Delegates should be comfortable reading Python or C# and navigating the Azure portal. Your organisation needs an Azure subscription we can deploy into (we'll send a short environment checklist two weeks before delivery). If your team isn't there yet, start with Build AI Agents or Copilot Studio in a Day.
Your own tenant wherever possible. That's the point. Agents grounded in your real SharePoint and data estate, governed by your Purview policies, are worth ten sandbox demos. Where procurement or security can't move fast enough, we provide a pre-configured sandbox and a migration checklist.
No, and that's deliberate. Microsoft's official courses (AI-3026, AI-102, AI-103) are generic, certification-oriented and run on demo data. This day is built around your workloads, your data and your governance requirements. If your team also wants certification, the day is a strong practical foundation for the AI-102/AI-103 exams and we'll point you at the right prep.
Each cohort is scoped individually. The figure depends on group size, delivery mode and how much tenant preparation your environment needs. Book a short discovery call or send us the brief below and you'll have a precise, no-obligation figure within 24 hours.
Yes, fair question. Azure AI Studio became Azure AI Foundry in 2024, which became Microsoft Foundry at Ignite 2025. We maintain this workshop against the live platform and refresh it every release cycle, so your team trains on what Foundry is now, not what it was called last year.
Workshops on their own are typically self-funded. Commissioned alongside an ST1512 apprenticeship cohort or the AI leadership units, it can usually be structured into the cohort spend. Talk to us and we'll work it through.
Up to 10 per cohort. This is a hands-on engineering day, and smaller cohorts of 5–8 get the most build time per delegate.
Typically 3–4 weeks from enquiry to delivery, slightly longer than our other workshops, because we run an environment checklist with your IT team first so the day isn't lost to permissions issues.
Two ways in. Book a 30-minute discovery call below, or fill out the form and we'll reply within 24 hours with cohort options and pricing for your group.