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Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows

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Overview

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.

Did you know you can automate many tasks in Teams? Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Heather Severino teaches how to do more in less time with bots, connectors, and flows. Heather starts by showing how to speed things up with bots, including how to quickly find colleagues and projects, automate meeting scheduling, create polls and surveys, and track team progress. Next, she shows how to pull in relevant content with connectors, including pulling pertinent news stories and RSS feeds. She demonstrates creating flows with Power Automate, which allow you to post messages to a Teams channel or conversation automatically whenever a new Planner task is created, a new Forms response is received, an Outlook email arrives, or a new tweet matches a particular hashtag. Finally, Heather shares where to go for more help in automating Microsoft Teams.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Supercharge Teams with automated tools
1. Find Information Quickly with Bots
  • What is a chat bot?
  • Get answers to questions with the Who bot
  • Get help arranging meetings with the SecretaryBot
  • Create a visual poll with the PollyBot
2. Pull In Content with Connectors
  • What is a connector?
  • Post articles in a channel conversation with the Bing News connector
  • Post RSS feeds in a channel conversation with the RSS 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

Taught by

Heather Severino

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