Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows
1h 4mIntermediate2021-05-04
Authors

Heather Severino
Globally recognized Trainer with over 23 years of experience
Course details
Did you know you can automate many tasks in Teams? Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Heather Severino teaches how to do more in less time with bots, connectors, and flows. Heather starts by showing how to speed things up with bots, including how to quickly find colleagues and projects, automate meeting scheduling, create polls and surveys, and track team progress. Next, she shows how to pull in relevant content with connectors, including pulling pertinent news stories and RSS feeds. She demonstrates creating flows with Power Automate, which allow you to post messages to a Teams channel or conversation automatically whenever a new Planner task is created, a new Forms response is received, an Outlook email arrives, or a new tweet matches a particular hashtag. Finally, Heather shares where to go for more help in automating Microsoft Teams.
Skills covered
MessagingOperations ManagementOffice 365Microsoft 365Project ManagementBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Supercharge Teams with automated tools
1. Find and Share Information with Microsoft Bots and Connectors
- 02 - What is a chat bot
- 03 - Create a visual poll with the Forms bot
- 04 - Post a weather forecast with the Weather messaging extension
- 05 - Get bots with an @mention shortcut
- 06 - Post news from your SharePoint site in a conversation
- 07 - Post notifications when responses are received for a form
- 08 - What is a connector
- 09 - Post articles in a channel conversation with the Bing News connector
2. Find and Share Information with Other Bots
- 10 - Get answers to questions with the Who bot
- 11 - Get help arranging meetings with the SecretaryBot
- 12 - Create a visual poll with the Polly bot
- 13 - Post articles in a channel conversation with the Bing News connector
3. Create Flows with Power Automate
- 14 - How does a flow work
- 15 - Post a message in a team when a new Planner task is created
- 16 - Post a message when a new tweet matches a specific hashtag
- 17 - Post a message in a team when an Outlook email arrives
4. Access Help and Resources
- 18 - Accessing Help in Microsoft Teams
- 19 - Helpful online resources
Conclusion
- 20 - Automate more with Microsoft Teams