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!
SfBPowerShellSessionViaTeamsModule session availability is Busy
Hi everyone, When using multithreading for Teams PowerShell sessions, there is an error saying that "The session SfBPowerShellSessionViaTeamsModule_xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, api.interfaces.records.teams.microsoft.com is not available to run commands. The session availability is Busy" When trying the exact same commands using 2 PowerShell windows it's working perfectly. Does anyone know how the Teams Powershell module is managing the sessions (where the context is stored and how to parallelize sessions)? The same kind of issues seems to appear with AzureAD Powershell module. Thanks! Regards, StephenAccess session (UniversalBot.loadSession) and it's userData from tab
Hello! Is there any possibility to access the current session (UniversalBot.loadSession with an address object) and the associated userData when handling a request for a tab? There is microsoftTeams.getContent on the tab client side, but that information is insecure and cannot be used for authentication as stated in the docs. When handling a bot request, e.g. handling a messaging extension request for a search which needs authentication to an external IDP, this information can be accessed through the address object from the event object in an onQuery-handler, but so far I could not figure out how to do this when handling a request for a tab. Especially I don't know how to access the address object with which the session can be loaded. I would need this to use one single authentication flow with the bot but not an additional tab based authentication flow. I want to avoid using microsoftTeams.authentication.authenticate as a second parallel authentication flow to the bot authentication initiated with responding with composeExtension/type "auth"/"openUrl". Using two parallel authentication flows may confuse the user as e.g. when the user first uses the tab flow the bot/messaging extension needs an additional authentication, and when using the bot flow first the tab can be authenticated through localStorage (writing the access token into the localStore in the authentication callback site) on the machine where the authentication took place, but when signed in to Teams simultaneously on another machine, the bot can use the access token there too, as the Teams sessions is the same, but the tab is not authenticated as it cannot access the session. Regards, Dominik
