Changes in AI Foundry

Hi MicheleParisi ,

You’re totally right things are changing quickly in this space, and it’s tough to keep up while you’re studying. The updates in AI Foundry are happening because Microsoft is moving from the old Azure OpenAI setup to the newer Azure AI Foundry (aka Azure AI Inference). Both systems are around for now, but they use different endpoints and SDKs.

 The old Azure OpenAI endpoints look like https://<name>.openai.azure.com/, while the new AI Foundry/Inferences ones use https://<region>.models.ai.azure.com/. The workshop notebooks from FabCon were made for AI Foundry, so if your setup is still on the old Azure OpenAI, the notebook calls won’t work until you switch to the new Azure AI Inference config.

Here’s what you can do: check your endpoint type in the Azure portal and make sure you’ve got the right client library. If you’re using AI Foundry, install or update the azure-ai-inference package and update your notebook to use the Foundry endpoint listed in your resource overview.

You’ll need to set the Foundry project endpoint and model deployment name in the notebook usually that sorts things out. If you’re still on the classic Azure OpenAI, you can either make a new AI Foundry workspace or tweak the notebook to use the older Azure OpenAI SDK.

The good news is Microsoft is updating the workshop materials to match these changes. You can check the official Azure AI Foundry documentation and the official GitHub workshop repository for the latest updates or any open issues about endpoints.

Hope this clears things up and helps you get your notebooks working again.

Best Regards,
Tejaswi.
Community Support