Microsoft Teams: How to set up a Teams bot

This article explains how to set up a Teams bot.

Teams bot setup

Note: This is only available with a provided personal App.

Requirements: 

• Permissions to create a Bot Service in Azure Portal
• An existing Teams integration
• A packed Teams app provided by YAROOMS (not the one on the store).

Set up Teams bot:

• Navigate to Azure Portal - Bot services
• Click on “+ Create”

• Scroll down, click on “Load More”, as many times as needed, until the Azure Bot option shows up.

• Click on "Create"

Create an Azure bot

• Bot handle - A unique identifier for the bot
• Select a resource group
• Pricing - Change to Free Tier
• Microsoft App ID - Select "Multitenant"
• Creation Type - Use existing app registration
• App ID - The client ID of your existing Teams Integration Application
• Review + Create
• Click on create

This will take a few minutes, but after its done, click on “View Resource”

On the left side menu click on Configuration and on Messaging endpoint add the following value: https://{your-tenant}.yarooms.com/api/teams-bot.

Apply the changes.

On the left side menu, click on "Channels" and add Teams as a channel.

Then, simply save the configuration to add teams as a channel.