This document provides an overview of practical Microsoft bot framework for Office 365 developers. It discusses what bots are and why they are useful, how to get the core concepts, and how to build and deploy bots using Azure bot service and Microsoft bot framework. It also demonstrates creating sample bots using QnA maker and FormFlow as well as deploying bots to Microsoft Teams. The document aims to help Office 365 developers get started with building conversational bots.
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The example solution uses Kentico EMS for an e-commerce site that that Bot connects to for its data.
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Bots and especially chat bots are becoming more and more popular since they use one of best interfaces for interaction - natural language.
Microsoft provides tools for building chat bots like Microsoft Bot Framework. There is natural fit between bot development and serveless architecture.
Because of that new service was born - Azure Bot Service.
It allows you to build bots in minutes.
Join us and learn how use Azure Bot Service that combines the power Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions to make bot development easier and faster.
We will cover the following topics:
- Brief review of Microsoft Bot Framework
- Brief review of Azure Functions
- Introduction to Azure Bot Service
- Bot development with Azure Bot Service
Live global broadcast will be available here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqoYaYLH3I
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Bots and especially chat bots are becoming more and more popular since they use one of best interfaces for interaction - natural language.
Microsoft provides tools for building chat bots like Microsoft Bot Framework. There is natural fit between bot development and serveless architecture.
Because of that new service was born - Azure Bot Service.
It allows you to build bots in minutes.
Join us and learn how use Azure Bot Service that combines the power Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions to make bot development easier and faster.
We will cover the following topics:
- Brief review of Microsoft Bot Framework
- Brief review of Azure Functions
- Introduction to Azure Bot Service
- Bot development with Azure Bot Service
Live global broadcast will be available here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqoYaYLH3I
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Talk given in #Ottawa Meetup Group https://www.meetup.com/ottawaitcommunity/events/235920172/
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Talk explaining how to publish bots to Facebook, Skype, Slack and many other channels. It also describes how to use Microsoft's Cognitive Services LUIS NLP service.
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
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4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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7. We are not focusing on…
Physical bots such as droids and automated drones
Internet bots such as search crawlers, at least not directly
8. We are focusing on…
Bots which communicate with users via instant messaging
Bots which we can deploy to Office 365
Bots which are created using Microsoft Bot Framework and are made
available through Azure Bot Service
9. Why?
From ’The Future Computed’
https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/2018/02/The-Future-Computed_2.8.18.pdf
In 2038, digital devices will
help us do more with one of
our most precious
commodities: time.
10. Why bots?
Bots can save our time
Bots are apps with a different user interface
Bots can (but they don’t have to) utilize AI services
11. Why use bot as user interface?
More or less natural dialog with user especially when good
natural language processing (NLP) is applied
Currently a problem for minor languages
Dialog can gathers the user input in a free-form way
Bots take actions based on the dialog
12. Some use cases for bots in Office 365
(October 2018)
• QnA bot
• Teams bot
• Bot as a web part in SharePoint site
13. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Call for action!
14. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Call for action!
15. Azure Bot Service
Microsoft’s cloud service for building, connecting, testing, monitoring
and managing bots
Generally Available since December 2017
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-
overview-introduction?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
16. Microsoft Bot Framework toolset
Can utilize Azure Bot Service as platform or run virtually anywhere
(Azure, on-prem, AWS, …)
Helpful dev aids such as Visual Studio Bot Application template and
Bot Framework Channel Emulator for local testing
Version 4 SDK published in May 2018
https://dev.botframework.com/
17. Channels
A channel is connection between the bot and an app.
A bot can be published to multiple channels.
Microsoft Teams, Web Chat, Email, Skype for Business
Direct Line (your own client, ie. custom web part)
Bing, Cortana, Facebook, GroupMe, Kik, Skype, Slack, Telegram, Twilio
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-
manage-channels?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
18. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
19. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
21. QnA Maker
A simple no-code way to create bots by training them with FAQs and
other content such as product manuals
Question/answer extraction in any language, but works best with
English, French, Italian, German or Spain.
https://www.qnamaker.ai/
23. FormFlow
FormFlow automatically creates dialogs based on the data model
Basic field types: numbers, string, datetime, enumeration, list of enum
Advanced features include validation, prompts, optional fields, etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-
builder-dotnet-formflow
25. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
26. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
27. Bots in Microsoft Teams
Personal chat with a bot
Communication between the user and the bot is private
A bot added to a channel
Bots only receive messages when they are @mentioned
28. Adding Bot Service bot to Microsoft Teams
1. Create, develop, test, and deploy your bot
2. Configure the Teams channel
3. Using Teams App Studio, create Manifest for your bot
4. Install the bot and add it to channels
30. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
31. Agenda
What Bots, and why Bots?
Getting the concepts straight
Building Bots
Utilizing the Microsoft Teams channel
Summary
32. Summary
Bot is an web app with conversation based user interface
Bots can be added to many different channels
Best bots have good natural language processing capabilities
