Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows

Get more out of Teams. Learn how to automate tasks with bots, connectors, and flows. Find out how to integrate Teams with Outlook, Office 365, news stories, and social media feeds.

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