What you'll learn

Building intelligent apps gets harder when your answers must be grounded in real documents, support follow-up actions, and still meet quality and safety expectations. In this course, Building Intelligent Applications with Microsoft Foundry, you’ll gain the ability to design and deploy a Copilot-style, retrieval-augmented application using multiple Azure AI services in the new Microsoft Foundry portal. First, you’ll explore how to ingest documents, extract structure, and validate an index that’s ready for retrieval. Next, you’ll discover how to build retrieval agents and orchestrate them with a multi-step workflow that produces grounded answers. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate workflow outputs and apply responsible AI controls like guardrails and blocklists to reduce risk. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of building RAG-powered app experiences in Microsoft Foundry needed to ship a reliable, production-minded intelligent application that stays grounded, supports follow-ups, and can be monitored and governed responsibly.