Module Introduction

Implementing an intelligent search solution with Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search).

This module dives into creating an end-to-end intelligent search pipeline using Azure AI Search. You will learn how to provision and configure search services, enrich content with custom skills, and persist enriched results in a knowledge store for advanced querying and analytics.

Before you begin, ensure you have an Azure subscription and sufficient permissions to create resource groups, Search services, and storage resources. For development scenarios, consider using a separate resource group to manage costs.

What we’ll cover

Provisioning and configuring an Azure AI Search service
Defining indexes and connecting data sources for ingestion
Implementing and integrating custom skills (Azure Functions or web APIs) into enrichment pipelines
Building a knowledge store to retain and query enriched data

Goals at a glance

Goal	Outcome	Key steps / examples
Set up Azure AI Search	A running Search service with an index ready to ingest data	Provision Search in Azure portal or via CLI; create an index and map fields; connect blob, Cosmos DB, or SQL data sources
Build & integrate custom skills	Enrich content during indexing (e.g., OCR, entity recognition, translation)	Implement Azure Functions or custom web APIs; register skills in a skillset; add to indexer pipeline
Create a knowledge store	Structured repository of enriched content for analytics and querying	Configure a knowledge store (Azure Storage or Cosmos DB); route enriched documents to the store

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Working with Custom Data Sources

Azure AI Search

Introduction

Introduction to AI and Azure AI Services

Get Started with Azure AI Services

Using Azure AI Services for Enterprise Applications

Analyzing Videos

Analyzing Text

Translating Text

Develop a Question Answering Solution

Develop a Conversational Language Understanding App

Custom Classification and Named Entity Extraction

Speech Recognition, Translation, and Synthesis

Get Started with Azure OpenAI Service

Develop Apps with Azure OpenAI Service

Apply Prompt Engineering

Implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI Service

Implementing an Intelligent Search Solution

Create a Custom Skill for Azure AI Search

Creating a Knowledge Store

Develop a Document Intelligence Solution

Analyze and Manipulate Images

Detecting Faces with the Azure AI Vision

Custom Vision Models with Azure AI Custom Vision

Module Introduction

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