Microsoft Teams Bot Development

1h 58mIntermediate2018-02-28

Authors

Sahil Malik

Trainer, Microsoft and iOS Consultant, and Founder of Winsmarts.com

Course details

Bots in Microsoft Teams allow users to interact naturally through chat. They can interact with a user in a one-on-one scope or talk to a team when they are @mentioned. In this course, join instructor Sahil Malik as he explains how to set up, configure, and build a bot for Microsoft Teams. Along the way, Sahil shares plenty of tips and best practices that can help you get acquainted with the Microsoft Bot Framework, and learn how to use it to efficiently write bots for Teams. He goes over how to register your bots, enable side loading, write code for scenarios that are specific to Teams, test your bots, and more.

Learning objectives
What are bots?
Creating bots
Testing using ngrok
Deploying bots to Microsoft Teams
Testing bots
Bots as Azure AD applications
Updating bot registration in Azure
Building the bot package

Skills covered

MessagingNatural Language Processing (NLP)Office 365AzureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Software and ToolsMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know
Using the exercise files

The Basics

What is Microsoft Teams
Teams demo
Dev story for Teams
What are bots
Bot Builder SDK
Key concepts for bots

Creating a Bot

Introduction
Setting up your project
Writing your bot logic
Running your bot
Write a GitHub client
Loading profiles
Bot prompting the user to make a choice
Bot loading the user profile
Testing using ngrok

Deploy a Bot to Microsoft Teams

Make code changes for Teams
Registering your bot
Adding the Teams channel
Exposing the bot using ngrok
Testing your bot via web chat
Enable side loading bots in teams
Testing the bot in Microsoft Teams
Registering the bot in Azure Portal
Bots as AzureAD applications

Teams Bot Interactions

Updating your bot registration
Updating bot registration in Azure
One-on-one Teams bot
Testing one-on-one Teams bot
User profile Teams Bot
Testing user profile Teams Bot
Get channels Bot
Building the bot package
Side loading and testing your bot

Conclusion

Next steps