Summary
You now have a mental map of what Microsoft's agent platform provides across each layer of agent development. That map is the foundation for making deliberate choices about the tools and services that fit your scenario — rather than discovering gaps after you've started building.
What you learned
In this module, you learned how to:
- Identify the appropriate agent development path for a given scenario.
- Identify the publishing paths and channel options for delivering agents to users.
- Match organizational data categories to the appropriate Microsoft IQ service.
- Describe how agents connect to external systems and coordinate with other agents.
- Identify the governance and identity services that support agents.
Learn more
- What is Microsoft Foundry?
- Microsoft Copilot Studio fundamentals
- Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit overview
- Microsoft Agent Framework
- Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
- Teams SDK overview
- Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs overview
- Work IQ API overview
- Bring your agents into Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) overview
- Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol
- Microsoft Agent 365 overview