Prevent 3rd Party Bots from Joining Meetings
Is there an option to block 3rd party bots from joining a Teams meeting in the Admin Center or elsewhere in Azure? Here's the backstory: company users started receiving recaps of their meetings from a 3rd party AI. From testing, if you create a free account on this 3rd party AI app and give it permission to read your calendar, it will recap all meetings associated with your calendar. So, when a user from my company sends this outside person a meeting invite, there is no visibility into whether anybody outside of the company is using this type of solution. When the meeting begins and a user from my company (organizer) starts the meeting, there is a bot request to join the meeting. While the company user has the option of admitting or denying the bot to the meeting, sometimes this can be overlooked. Due to data privacy, I want to block this bot by username/email as displayed in Teams or even by domain so it can't join Teams meetings preventing any company user from making a decision.
Teams Phone Bot
Is there any way to integrate a teams bot to answer and respond to the incoming calls? We are currently using teams phone auto attendant. I want to integrate automated tasks without agents. Example Scenario: Users want to rate the service by entering the number. The call doesn't need to be answered by an agent. Is it capable in the teams phone system?Demystifying Microsoft Teams Apps
Microsoft continues to pack new functionality into Teams at an astonishing pace! What’s great to see is the various types of integrations, or Apps available with other systems. At first, it may seem a bit daunting, even confusing to get a sense of the differences between these apps. In this article, I’m providing a quick overview and recommendation on when to use what. A Microsoft Teams App is web app that is built to serve a specific purpose. Depending on the needs, a Teams app can include one or more of the following capabilities: Tabs Bots Connectors Messaging Extensions Activity Feed Outgoing Web Hooks Tabs Tabs display rich content that fills most of the main panel of the application. Users typically view and interact with content inside the tabs. Each channel can be configured to have its own tabs. When a user is inside a tab, they can work within the context of that content. Many app developers also provide a link that will take the user to an external site that is native to the application being hosted inside the tab. As content inside a tab is often shared between different users, tabs can also be used for collaboration purposes. Bots Bots are intelligent apps with which users can interact either via predefined buttons, text commands, or through natural language conversations. As far as users are concerned, bots can be treated just as other team members on conversations. Behind the scenes, bots can perform a variety of actions and operate on content within a team or outside. Connectors Similar to bots, connectors are used to share updates in a Conversation. Connectors can even be set up so that users can provide actions for the content in the form of buttons on the connector cards. Activity Feed Activity Feeds are used to inform users of an important event that occurred by drawing their attention to the Activity icon. Messaging Extensions With messaging extensions, users can pull in specific information from their services into a message that they are composing and act on it. This helps in keeping the content and input from the user well organized. Outgoing Webhooks You can use Outgoing Webhooks to send information to another service (e.g. Microsoft Bot Framework) that can be acted on. Outgoing Webhooks are invoked from a channel using the @mention. Summary When you want to… Consider using… Display a large amount of content that users can view and interact with Tabs Collaborate on content with other users Tabs Ask questions in a natural language Bots Perform operations based on information provided Bots, Connectors, Outgoing Webhooks Display updates in a conversation Bots, Connectors Make sure you’re not missing an important update Activity Feed Include predefined content as part of your messages in a conversation Message ExtensionApp Templates for Microsoft Teams – What are they, Why do you care, and Why EVERYONE should use them
Microsoft have recently made available some new “App Templates” for Microsoft Teams. But, what are they and who are they for? I think these templates are really exciting because there really is something for everyone here. Whether you’re a developer or not, you can use App Templates to broaden your knowledge of Microsoft Teams as a platform for App Development, and also provide benefit to your users. Read more on my blog: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2019/06/app-templates-for-microsoft-teams-what-are-they-why-do-you-care-and-why-should-everyone-be-using-them/ and don't miss the 30 minute Zero to Hero walk through of deploying the Icebreaker bot:
MS Teams App requires approval although is unblocked and available to everyone.
Hi, I have a MS teams bot (custom app) published via the MS Graph API to our org and team space. It shows up under the MS Teams Admin with the following flag/settings: Available to: Everyone App Status: unblocked Publishing Status: Published Custom App: yes When our teams admin tries to install the app in their MS teams client, it shows "request approval" button, and then shows in the ms teams admin that his user account has requested it. As mentioned it's marked as available to everyone and is unblocked - not sure why it's requesting approval? Then secondly our IT admin has recently changed some of our user roles, and so was thinking it could be that? if so, what role should our MS teams admin have in order to simply install the app rather than requesting approval for it? Pls let me know if you need more information. Thank you, Robert
