"How to enable your chatbot within Microsoft Teams"

"What do I need before I start?"

" You have created a chatbot to deploy. This tutorial uses the bot created in the tutorial Consume API Services and Call Webhooks from Your Chatbot. "

Deploy an SAP Conversational AI Chatbot to Microsoft Teams

Enable an SAP Conversational AI chatbot to be run within Microsoft Teams.

🎓beginner ⏱20 min SAP Conversational Ai Beginner SAP Business Technology Platform 0/8

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🎓 beginner ⏱ 20 min. SAP Conversational AiBeginnerSAP Business Technology Platform

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✔How to enable your chatbot within Microsoft Teams

D Daniel Wroblewski November 4, 2022

Created by September 22, 2021

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Prerequisites

You have created a chatbot to deploy. This tutorial uses the bot created in the tutorial Consume API Services and Call Webhooks from Your Chatbot.

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Intro

This tutorial shows you how to enable and test your chatbot in Microsoft teams, but does not include information on adding the chatbot to teams and channels within Microsoft Teams. For more information on this, see Manage your apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center.

Step 1 Create Microsoft Azure account

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Create a trial account at Microsoft Azure.
After creating a trial account, make sure your subscription is set up properly.
- Go to the Microsoft Azure portal.
- Click Subscriptions.
- Click your subscription (mine was called Azure subscription 1).
- Click Resource Providers (menu on bottom left).
Make sure the microsoft.insights is registered.

Step 2 Create Azure bot channel

Go to the Microsoft Azure portal.
Click Create a Resource.
Create a Resource
Search for Azure Bot, then at the bottom of the tile click Create > Azure Bot.
Bot Registration

Fill in the fields in the wizard.

The instructions were valid at the time of this writing, but you should check the Microsoft documentation for exact instructions.

Field Name	Input Value
Bot Handle	A unique display name for the bot (which will appear in channels and directories – this can be changed later)
Subscription	Your Azure subscription (in my trial, I had only one)
Resource Group	Select a resource group. If you don’t have one – which you probably won’t have – then create a new one.
Pricing	Make sure you select the F0 free Pricing tier – I had to change the selection – unless you want to use it in production.
Microsoft App ID	Keep Create new Microsoft App ID

Click Review + Create.

It will take a few minutes for the resource settings to be validated.
Once complete, click Create.
It may take a few minutes for the resource to be created.
When complete, you can go to the bot resource by clicking Go to resource.
Bot created
There will be 2 links: one to the resource, and one to the key vault, where you get the secret.

Step 3 Get your app ID and secret

Open your bot resource, and go to Settings > Configuration.
The app ID is shown under Microsoft App ID. Copy this number down.
App ID
Open the key vault.
In my Azure account, I had to give myself permission to enable me to use the key vaults and to get my app’s secret. I did the following:
- In the key vault, go to Settings > Access Policies.
- Click Add Access Policy.
- In the Configure from template field, select the Key, Secret & Certificate Management.
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 ![Access policy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sap-tutorials/sap-conversational-ai/main/tutorials/conversational-ai-deploy-teams/accesspolicy.png)
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- Under Select principal, search for your account and select it.
- Click Add, and then Save.
Select the secret already created when you created your bot resource.
Secret
Click on the version, and then copy the secret at the bottom of the page.
Copy secret