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Copper Contributor

Jun 25, 2020

Register bot without Azure process

Hi Microsoft Teams, I was looking on creating and hosting bots. I thought that it is required to host the bot in Azure but according to documentation it is not but it needs to registered in Azure...

Iron Contributor

Jun 26, 2020

avillanueva
You can register you bot with dev.botframework.com. And you need to set the bot endpoint URL where bot is hosted, It can be hosted in Azure of course, or somewhere else (e.g. AWS, on premises, whatever). And you should also add Microsoft Teams as channel after the bot is registered.

If you want to register your bot in azure and make Azure Web Application as default hosting for your bot then you can choose Azure Bot framework (Bot Channels Registration). In this case, you have to pay for Azure services.

So If you are not hosting your bot using Azure services, you can always go for https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.

avillanueva
Copper Contributor
Jun 26, 2020
Hi subhasish-MSFT ,

Thank you for the response but it didn't answer my question. If I register my bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new., is it free? No additional fee if I'm not using any Azure services and only register the bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.?
- subhasish-MSFT
  Iron Contributor
  Jun 26, 2020
  Yes, It is free
  - avillanueva
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 26, 2020
    Hi subhasish-MSFT,
    
    Thank you for the response. Last quick question, with proactive message it sends message to user right? Can it configure which user it should send the message or it sends it to all the user that installed the bot? What we are trying is to send different events to different user depending on case scenario.
    
    Thank you.
subhasish-MSFT
Iron Contributor
Jun 26, 2020
avillanueva , Also here is a link for reference How bot calls work.