Free digital edition · launches September 30, 2026
Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ
Grounding Enterprise AI on Your Own Data
The complete 321-page digital edition launches free on September 30, 2026. Until then, download an 8-page teaser with About the Book, code, the author and the complete table of contents.
Until September 30, the download is an 8-page teaser with no book chapters. The complete 321-page digital edition will then be free, with an optional printed edition on Amazon.
Build retrieval that enterprise AI can trust
Seventeen chapters take you from retrieval and RAG fundamentals through ingestion, index design and hybrid search to Foundry IQ, security, evaluation, cost and operations.
Part I: Foundations — Retrieval and Why It Matters
- 01Why Retrieval — Grounding, RAG, and the Confident-Wrong Answer
- 02Azure AI Search — The Platform
- 03Foundry IQ — The Knowledge Layer
Part II: Building the Index
- 04Data Sources and Ingestion
- 05Chunking and Integrated Vectorization
- 06Index Design — Fields, Analyzers, and Scoring
- 07Skillsets and Enrichment
Part III: Querying and Ranking
- 08Full-Text, Vector, and Hybrid Search
- 09The Semantic Ranker and Reranking
- 10Agentic Retrieval and Foundry IQ Knowledge Bases
- 11Search Explorer, Debugging, and Evaluating Retrieval
Part IV: Production — Grounding, Security, and Operations
- 12Grounding Foundry Agents and Copilot Studio
- 13Security — RBAC, Networking, and Permission Trimming
- 14Performance, Scale, and Cost
- 15Multimodal, Multilingual, and Advanced Retrieval
- 16Diagnosing and Fixing Bad Retrieval
- 17Operations, Monitoring, and Keeping the Index Fresh
From confident demos to grounded production systems
Reliable answers need more than a strong model. The data pipeline, ranking, permissions, evaluation and operations must work as one system.
- Build keyless index pipelines from data sources through chunking, vectorization and enrichment
- Combine full-text, vector and hybrid search with semantic ranking and agentic retrieval
- Ground Foundry agents and Copilot Studio on your data with citations and permission trimming
- Evaluate retrieval quality, diagnose failures, tune cost and performance, and keep indexes fresh
Every listing as runnable, keyless code
The repository is organized by chapter and contains REST, Python, JSON and Bicep examples using DefaultAzureCredential.
Questions about the free Azure AI Search book
Is the complete 321-page digital edition free?
Yes. The complete digital book launches free on September 30, 2026. Until then, only the 8-page book teaser is available; newsletter signup is optional.
What does the teaser contain?
The teaser contains the cover, About the Book, code guidance, author information and the complete table of contents. It contains no book chapters.
Who is this book for?
Developers, architects, AI engineers and administrators who want to operate RAG, grounding, Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ securely and reliably in production.
Does the book include runnable code?
Yes. The public GitHub repository organizes the REST, Python, JSON and Bicep examples by chapter and uses keyless authentication with DefaultAzureCredential.
Bring Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ to your event or team
I also deliver the retrieval, RAG, grounding and security material as conference sessions, technical deep dives and practical workshops.