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.
Copilot in Action: Building Next-Gen Bots with Microsoft Copilot Studio
At Microsoft Ignite we announced Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code comprehensive conversational AI solution that unlocks new Copilot capabilities. Join us at Microsoft Ignite to learn about this new tool and how to use it to build intelligent bots.Create and share Copilot agents in SharePoint in a few clicks
Go behind the scenes to learn more about Copilot agents in SharePoint, powered by your content. What could be better? Copilot agents are built in Copilot Studio via our new, built-in lightweight agent builder experience in SharePoint. CJ and Karuana discuss the broader vision of Copilot agents and show you how to put this new capability to work within your SharePoint sites in Microsoft 365 - including IT management details and licensing insights. Check out the new Microsoft 365 Copilot agents in SharePoint adoption hub: https://aka.ms/SharePoint/agents. In addition, review the recent, related blog, "Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive" by Adam Harmetz and Jason Moore. And review this short explainer video, "Copilot agents in SharePoint" taken from the "Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2" event with Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro event broadcast - watch now:
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 Extension
