Choose tools and services for your agent on Microsoft's agent platform: Review

A teammate sent me this, so I read through it in about 40 minutes. The unit on governance and identity was a single page mentioning Microsoft Entra and Purview, and that’s it. Unit 2 lists the build tools, Unit 3 lists the channels, Unit 5 lists more tools. It’s a series of pages that say “For X, you can use A, B, or C,” with a link to each product's homepage. There's no lab, no sandbox, not even a hypothetical case study to walk through. I was hoping for a decision tree or some criteria for *how* to choose, but the module just presents the menu.

I get what it's for. Someone in a meeting is throwing around terms like 'Copilot Studio,' 'Graph connectors,' and 'Microsoft IQ,' and this module gives you a quick map so you can nod along. It's like a pre-sales presentation slide deck turned into a web page. But the title is 'Choose tools and services.' It doesn't actually guide you in making a choice. For example, it doesn't say, 'If your data is in SharePoint, use a Graph connector; if it's in a SQL database, use a Power Platform connector.' It just says those things exist.

The final knowledge check was revealing. The questions were basically 'Which product does X?' and 'What is the name of the service for Y?'. It's testing your recall of the brochure, not any technical understanding. I guess it saves me from watching a one-hour keynote on YouTube, but don't come here expecting to learn how to build an agent.