This lab walks you through the steps to create a Microsoft Foundry resource using the Azure Portal. This is a required setup step before proceeding with lab exercises involving AI Foundry capabilities.
Azure AI Foundry is a unified platform for building, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade AI applications and agents—combining powerful tools, models, and infrastructure with built-in governance and scalability.
In this lab we will:
- Create Microsoft Foundry Resource and project
2- 10 minutes
You are creating Azure AI Foundry project that will be utilized later in the labs for several modules in this workshop.
No pre-requisites
Go to +++https://portal.azure.com+++ and sign in with your Azure credentials. These credentials are present on the right hand side under resources tab below Azure Portal.

- In the top search bar, type "Microsoft Foundry"
- Select Microsoft Foundry from the search results
- Under Overview, click "Create a Foundry Resource"
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Choose the Subscription if not filled in automatically
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Use the precreated resource group that is provided as part of this lab machine instance - azureaiworkshoprg

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Give a name for the Azure AI Foundry resource. Please use this name as the lab environment will not let you use another name - +++ai-foundry-@lab.LabInstance.Id+++ (eg ai-foundry-53439517).The screen shot provided here is just for reference, do not use the name provided in the screenshot below
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Choose a Region (eg East US 2)
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Use this Default project name - firstProject. The lab environment will not let you use another name (firstProject).
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Click Next button. Use this as a reference image for details but choose the existing resource group and fill in the rest of the details
- For this lab, Keep defaults for subsequents tabs (Network, Identity, Encryption, Tags) and Click Next button until Review + submit
- Click Create button
- In less than 2 minutes your deployment should complete
- Click Go to resource
- Review the Overview details for the Azure AI Foundry resource you just created.
- Click Go to Foundry Portal





