The outcome

Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.

Microsoft Foundry is a enterprise AI application, model, agent, evaluation, and governance platform on Azure. Building, evaluating, deploying, and governing enterprise generative AI applications and agents across models, tools, data, and Azure services. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define a low-risk benchmark, approved Azure region, candidate model, data boundary, and spending limit.

  2. 02

    Create a development Foundry project and grant a test identity only the required project and inference permissions.

  3. 03

    Deploy or select one model after reviewing its terms, availability, pricing, and content-safety behavior.

  4. 04

    Run versioned prompts and inspect output quality, safety results, latency, usage, and failure handling before connecting production data.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • State the outcome before the background.
  • Provide the real source material.
  • Review the result before expanding the task.

Foundry spans models, agents, tools, projects, identities, networks, and billable Azure resources whose availability varies by region. Isolate projects, use least-privilege RBAC and managed identities, approve model provenance and terms, classify data, validate integrated and external safety controls, test the full application, monitor diagnostics and cost, and version every model, prompt, evaluator, and guardrail change.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.