A Recap of the Build AI Agents with Custom Tools Live Session
Artificial Intelligence is evolving, and so are the ways we build intelligent agents. On a recent Microsoft YouTube Live session, developers and AI enthusiasts gathered to explore the power of custom tools in AI agents using Azure AI Studio. The session walked through concepts, use cases, and a live demo that showed how integrating custom tools can bring a new level of intelligence and adaptability to your applications. 🎥 Watch the full session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/MRpExvcdxGs?si=X03wsQxQkkshEkOT What Are AI Agents with Custom Tools? AI agents are essentially smart workflows that can reason, plan, and act — powered by large language models (LLMs). While built-in tools like search, calculator, or web APIs are helpful, custom tools allow developers to tailor agents for business-specific needs. For example: Calling internal APIs Accessing private databases Triggering backend operations like ticket creation or document generation Learn Module Overview: Build Agents with Custom Tools To complement the session, Microsoft offers a self-paced Microsoft Learn module that gives step-by-step guidance: Explore the module Key Learning Objectives: Understand why and when to use custom tools in agents Learn how to define, integrate, and test tools using Azure AI Studio Build an end-to-end agent scenario using custom capabilities Hands-On Exercise: The module includes a guided lab where you: Define a tool schema Register the tool within Azure AI Studio Build an AI agent that uses your custom logic Test and validate the agent’s response Highlights from the Live Session Here are some gems from the session: Real-World Use Cases – Automating customer support, connecting to CRMs, and more Tool Manifest Creation – Learn how to describe a tool in a machine-understandable way Live Azure Demo – See exactly how to register tools and invoke them from an AI agent Tips & Troubleshooting – Best practices and common pitfalls when designing agents Want to Get Started? If you're a developer, AI enthusiast, or product builder looking to elevate your agent’s capabilities — custom tools are the next step. Start building your own AI agents by combining the power of: Microsoft Learn Module YouTube Live Session Final Thoughts The future of AI isn't just about smart responses — it's about intelligent actions. Custom tools enable your AI agent to do things, not just say things. With Azure AI Studio, building a practical, action-oriented AI assistant is more accessible than ever. Learn More and Join the Community Learn more about AI Agents with https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginnersOpen Source Course and Building Agents. Join the Azure AI Foundry Discord Channel. Continue the discussion and learning: https://aka.ms/AI/discord Have questions or want to share what you're building? Let’s connect on LinkedIn or drop a comment under the YouTube video!
Intune Custom Compliance Policy - Struggling
Any assistance or guidance on this is greatly appreciated. For over a week I struggled with a custom compliance policy that will do the following. - Search for a specific installed software and version and produce the following results: - Application is not installed - Compliance Status set to "Not Applicable" - Application is installed but is not the desired version. - Compliance status set to "Not Compliant" - Application is installed, meets the version requirements - Compliance status set to "Compliant" - Multiple versions of application exist, one of which meet the requirements. Compliance status set to "Not Compliant" If I run the discovery script on a local device and output the findings it is 100% successful, every time. However, when applying the policy in Intune not every works correctly. Here are both the JSNO file and discovery script. -------JSON------ { "Rules": [ { "SettingName": "ComplianceStatus", "Operator": "IsEquals", "DataType": "String", "Operand": "Compliant", "MoreInfoUrl": "https://example.com/compliance-info", "RemediationStrings": [ { "Language": "en_US", "Title": "Software Compliance Check", "Description": "The required software version is installed and compliant." } ] }, { "SettingName": "ComplianceStatus", "Operator": "IsEquals", "DataType": "String", "Operand": "NonCompliant", "MoreInfoUrl": "https://example.com/compliance-info", "RemediationStrings": [ { "Language": "en_US", "Title": "Software Compliance Check", "Description": "The required software version is not installed or is outdated. Please install or update to the required version." } ] }, { "SettingName": "ComplianceStatus", "Operator": "IsEquals", "DataType": "String", "Operand": "NotApplicable", "MoreInfoUrl": "https://example.com/compliance-info", "RemediationStrings": [ { "Language": "en_US", "Title": "Software Compliance Check", "Description": "The software is not applicable for this device." } ] } ] } ------- Discovery Script _------- $softwareName = "Autodesk Single Sign On Component" $requiredVersion = [version]"13.7.7.1807" # Get the installed software information $installedSoftware = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Product | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq $softwareName } # Initialize the result hash $result = @{ SoftwareInstalled = $false SoftwareVersion = "0.0.0.0" ComplianceStatus = "NotApplicable" } # Process each instance if any are found if ($installedSoftware) { $result.SoftwareInstalled = $true $isCompliant = $false $multipleCopies = ($installedSoftware.Count -gt 1) foreach ($software in $installedSoftware) { $installedVersion = [version]$software.Version $result.SoftwareVersion = $installedVersion.ToString() if ($installedVersion -ge $requiredVersion) { $isCompliant = $true } } # Determine overall compliance status if ($multipleCopies) { $result.ComplianceStatus = "NonCompliant" } else { $result.ComplianceStatus = $isCompliant ? "Compliant" : "NonCompliant" } } # Return the result as JSON $result | ConvertTo-Json -CompressCustom profile: hide known file extensions
Hi, i would like to configure our WIndows 10 clients so that they show all the file extensions. There is a GPO to configure this but i would like to configure this through MS Intune. Do you have any advice on how to achive this? (I already know how to use custom admx policies, how to ingest them, but i don't know how to configure this.) Is there a way to do this via OMA-URI or any other possibilities to set a registry value? (I don't like the powershell via intune way) Thank you in advance. 🙂 Kind regards PatrickSharepoint Numbering Column won't let me have 001 or 012, it won't let me start with 0
Is there a way to set a SharePoint number column to allow numbers that start with 0? We're setting up an index system and for some reason it always removes the 0 and there doesn't seem to be a way to have it not do that. I also tried to use a text row instead, but even that converts 001 to 1.0000000Missing icon in app admin panel when loading custom app created with app studio
Hello!. I have created a custom app with App Studio. It has completed the validation without errors and when uploading it to the Teams application panel, the icon does not appear. The app does display correctly when opened from Teams and contains the outline icon. Can someone tell me how to correct it? Although it appears correctly in Teams, I would like it to have its icon in the app administration panel. Thanks!
Allow custom availabiity status during booking
Please allow to customize status for booking, e.g. to allow to set status to "free" by default when booked. In some cases, this is preferable if bookings app is used for long-term bookings (e.g. several days in hot desks system) where setting "busy" status for the person (not service) interferes with calendar by showing person as busy for the whole day, where in reality that booking would not interfere with other, regular calendar bookings.
Teams custom application packages.
Hi Everyone, Recently I had a issue with uploading a zipped custom application package via teams admin and from installed ms teams. from user end upload it simply says manifest parsing has failed. and whenever i try from teams admin center it says "can't read the manifest file" even i tried checking manifest from the Jason validators and for matters. but i couldn't find a solid answer for my issue. most of the online sources, solution was to add "https://" section in front of your developer website. i tried that but still have the same issue. when developing the application i followed exactly the same steps mentioned in below GitHub article. https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-hrsupport Any idea how to resolve this..? thank you.
