Free digital edition · launches August 30, 2026
Microsoft Foundry
The A-to-Z Guide to Building and Governing Enterprise AI Agents
The complete 379-page Microsoft Foundry digital book launches free on August 30, 2026. Until then, download a 10-page teaser with About the Book and the complete table of contents.
Until August 30, the download is a 10-page teaser with no book chapters. The complete 379-page digital edition will then be free, with an optional printed edition on Amazon.
Microsoft Foundry from A to Z
Twenty-two chapters take you from the first resource through models, RAG and agents to governance, security, GenAIOps and publishing into Microsoft 365.
Part I: Understanding the Platform
- 01From Copilots to Agents: The Road to Microsoft Foundry
- 02Understanding Microsoft Foundry: Architecture and Building Blocks
- 03Getting Started: Your First Foundry Resource and Project
- 04The Model Catalog: Choosing the Right Model
- 05Deploying Models: Deployment Types, Quotas, and Cost
- 06Talking to Models in Code
Part II: Building Intelligent Solutions
- 07Grounding AI in Your Data: RAG, Azure AI Search, and Foundry IQ
- 08Your First Agent with Foundry Agent Service
- 09Agent Tools: Giving Your Agent Hands
- 10Multi-Agent Systems, Memory, and the Agent Framework
- 11Fine-Tuning: Teaching the Model Your Domain
- 12Beyond Text: Speech, Vision, Documents, and Real-Time Voice
Part III: Governance and Security
- 13Identity and Access: RBAC, Keys, and Agent Identities
- 14Network Security and Data Protection
- 15Guardrails: Content Safety in Practice
- 16Evaluations and Red Teaming: Trust but Verify
- 17The Foundry Control Plane: Governing AI at Scale
- 18Agent 365 and Enterprise-Wide Agent Governance
Part IV: Operating, Publishing, and the Edge
- 19From Prototype to Production: GenAIOps
- 20Publishing Agents: Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio
- 21Foundry at the Edge: Foundry Local, Windows, and VS Code
- 22The Road Ahead
Built for the step from demo agent to production
An agent is ready for the enterprise only when identity, networking, guardrails, evaluation, cost and operations work together.
- Choose and deploy models with a deliberate view of quotas, deployment types and cost
- Combine RAG, Foundry IQ, tools, memory and multi-agent systems in working solutions
- Design RBAC, agent identities, network isolation, data protection and content safety end to end
- Evaluate, red-team and operate agents with GenAIOps, then publish them to Teams or Microsoft 365
Every example as runnable code
The repositories are organized by chapter. A separate companion repository contains the Teams application from Chapter 20.
Questions about the free Microsoft Foundry book
Is the full 379-page digital edition free?
Yes. The complete digital book will be free from August 30, 2026. Until then, only the 10-page book teaser is available to download; newsletter signup is optional.
When does the complete edition launch?
The complete edition launches on August 30, 2026. Selected portal screenshots and product-dependent details will continue to be updated until then.
Who is this book for?
Developers, architects, IT administrators, security teams and decision makers who want to understand Microsoft Foundry as a complete enterprise AI platform and operate it in production.
Does the book include runnable code?
Yes. The Python examples are organized by chapter in a public GitHub repository, and Chapter 20 has a separate companion repository for the Teams application.
Bring Microsoft Foundry to your event or team
I also deliver the architecture, agent and governance material as conference sessions, technical deep dives and practical workshops.