The document discusses the evolution of enterprise collaboration through Microsoft Teams, focusing on modern approaches to creating bots and integrating apps. It emphasizes using the Teams App Studio and Azure services for better extensibility and development practices. Key features include engaging users through bots, connectors, and actionable messages, as well as the importance of side loading for testing solutions.

1. The Innovative Enterprise
Collaboration

2. Lineup!
• Teams extensibility options
• Tip – Old way of creating Bots
• Modern Microsoft way of creating bots for Teams
• Setting up environment for Teams extensibility
• Enable developer preview
• Side loading
• Introduction to Teams App studio
• Integrate

3. Kushan Lahiru Perera
Solutions Architect – Softhonic Innovations
Cloud Engineer – eMazzanti Technologies
Passionate about:
Enterprise Collaboration - O365/ SharePoint
Cloud Services - Microsoft Azure & GCP
Client Side Frameworks – Angular & React
Microsoft MVP – Office Extensibility

4. Microsoft Teams App Platform
Reach your users in their chats, channels, notifications, and personal workspace
Bots
Help users get
tasks done in
conversations
Connectors
Post rich updates
to channels
Tabs
Surface rich
content within
Teams
Office
Store
Drive engagement
by submitting
your app to the
Office Store
Actionable
Messages
Add rich
interaction to your
connector cards
Activity
Feed
Engage users
via feed
notifications
Compose
Extensions
Allow users to query
and share rich cards
in conversations

5. Compose
Extension
To get command line
experience where you could
chat alone and query
information.

6. Old way of creating bots…
Feb 2018

7. https://dev.botframework.com/bots
Familiar with this site?

9. Lets Try
Modern way…

10. Bot Services
Build, connect, deploy and
connect intelligent bots to
interact with users.
https://portal.azure.com

11. Developer
Preview
Allow us to integrate
extensible solutions
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2
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12. Side Loading
Way of uploading app into
local MS Teams environment
to test experience.
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2
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13. Teams App Studio
New released studio for
Microsoft Teams Extensibility

14. Old Practices
Bot framework portal
Yomen & manual manifest edit
Azure web app
Offline code edit
New Practices
Azure Portal
Team App Studio (Preview)
Azure web app/ Azure Functions
In-browser code edit
Summary

15. Thank you!