MS-4015: Build Custom Engine Agents with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK

About this Course

Build intelligent custom engine Agents using the LLMs and AI components of your choice with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. These custom agents can also be used to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot.

By the end of this course, you will to be able to classify the uses of the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK suitable for your business needs. You will also learn to deploy an app using Azure OpenAI resources to connect your data, and build your custom engine Agent using Microsoft 365 SDK.

Audience Profile

This course is great for software developers, cloud architects, and Teams administrators.

At Course Completion

Outline

Explore the Copilot stack

Introduction
Explore custom agents for Teams with the Teams AI Library
Leverage the Copilot stack to accelerate your AI Build
Understand the different Copilot extensibility options

Utilize an Azure OpenAI model to create an app

Access Azure OpenAI Service
Understand Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI Service
Implement RAG with your own data and Azure OpenAI Models
Bring your Azure OpenAI Model with your data to Teams
Install and set up Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

Build your custom agent for Teams

Create your custom engine agent Teams App
Configure your custom engine agent

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and creating chat bots.