Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways
0 / 4 Completed- Understand Microsoft AI core architecture and runtime execution model
- Audit real-world latency, throughput benchmarks, and memory footprint
- Implement zero-downtime deployment patterns with resilience guards
- Verify code snippets and architect blueprints against production SLOs
- Azure AI Foundry portal now hosts the model catalog, playgrounds, deployments, agents, and evaluation that used to live in Azure OpenAI Studio.
- An Azure OpenAI resource exposes only the openai/v1 endpoint; Foundry-specific agents and tools require a Foundry project endpoint.
- Copilot Studio, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen are separate Microsoft products, not internal components of Azure AI Foundry.
- Azure OpenAI On Your Data retired on October 14, 2026; Azure AI Search-backed apps must migrate to Foundry IQ manually.
- Your application code calls a deployment name, not a model name, and that name must match exactly what you deployed.
The Morning Our RAG Bot Started Lying About Being Broken
On the morning of October 15, 2026, a support-desk chatbot that had been quietly answering internal wiki questions for two years started throwing errors on every single call. The team that owned it had built the bot on Azure OpenAI On Your Data, wiring an Azure AI Search index straight into the chat completion request so answers came back grounded in company documents. Nobody on the current team remembered building it; the engineer who wired it up had moved teams eighteen months earlier.
The fix was not a configuration tweak. Azure OpenAI On Your Data was retired on October 14, 2026, and Microsoft's documentation is explicit that it is no longer supported, with no automatic migration path. The documented replacement for an Azure AI Search-backed application is Foundry IQ, and getting there meant re-reading the current Foundry documentation from scratch rather than patching the old integration.
- Four Names, One Platform: Mapping Foundry's Surface
- The Documented Path From Zero To A Deployed Model
- Two Endpoints, Two Code Paths
- Where Copilot Studio, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen Actually Sit
- Shipping It: Governance, Evaluation, and the Retirement You Can't Ignore
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