Introduction
When you build an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio, you often ground its answers in knowledge sources that you add yourself. Other teams in your organization might already manage some of the context that an agent needs. That context includes tuned knowledge bases, business data modeled for analytics, and the work context that people create in Microsoft 365. Microsoft IQ capabilities let an agent powered by the GitHub Copilot harness reuse that context. Foundry IQ connects to knowledge bases in Microsoft Foundry, Fabric IQ to business data in Microsoft Fabric, and Work IQ to work context in Microsoft 365.
Note
Fabric IQ and Work IQ are in preview. Preview features aren't meant for production use and might have restricted functionality.
Suppose you build a sales operations agent for a midsize company. Sellers ask the agent about pricing and discount policy, sales performance, and their own recent customer meetings and email in Microsoft 365. A policy team maintains a tuned knowledge base in Microsoft Foundry that covers pricing and discounts, and an analytics team maintains a semantic model in Microsoft Fabric for sales performance. You want the agent to answer all three kinds of questions from the places where that information already lives.
In this module, you explore:
- How Microsoft IQ capabilities differ from knowledge sources, other tools, and connected agents
- How to choose a Microsoft IQ capability for each kind of question an agent answers
- How to connect an agent to a Foundry IQ knowledge base
- How to connect an agent to Fabric IQ business data
- How to connect an agent to Work IQ for Microsoft 365 context
By the end of this module, you'll be able to choose and connect the Microsoft IQ capabilities that ground an agent in the context your organization already manages.