Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows

Introduction

• Supercharge Teams with automated tools

1. Find and Share Information with Microsoft Bots and Connectors

• What is a chat bot?
• Create a visual poll with the Forms bot
• Post a weather forecast with the Weather messaging extension
• Get bots with an @mention shortcut
• Post news from your SharePoint site in a conversation
• Post notifications when responses are received for a form
• What is a connector?
• Post articles in a channel conversation with the Bing News connector

2. Find and Share Information with Other Bots

• Get answers to questions with the Who bot
• Get help arranging meetings with the SecretaryBot
• Create a visual poll with the Polly bot
• Post articles in a channel conversation with the Bing News connector

3. Create Flows with Power Automate

• How does a flow work?
• Post a message in a team when a new Planner task is created
• Post a message when a new tweet matches a specific hashtag
• Post a message in a team when an Outlook email arrives

4. Access Help and Resources

• Accessing Help in Microsoft Teams
• Helpful online resources

Conclusion

• Automate more with Microsoft Teams