I am working on a notification only teams bot limited to members of a single azure ad tenant. Based on this documentation - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/bot-v3/bots-context - the serviceUrl could change.
Since the bot would hardly ever receive a request, how do I manage the serviceUrl? What could cause the serviceUrl to change?
Service URL are unique to region, not tenant.
You can cache the team and user details when bot is added to a team in conversation update bot event. You could use it later to send messages.
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I need to get list of attendees of a MSTeams meeting call, and their times by an Azure Application.
For now, i've tried 3 different approaches without success:
Registering a Bot
Retrieve the attendee report of an event
callRecord subscription
In more detail:
Registering a Bot
MembersAdded event works as described in the documentation for v4.7 of the Bots SDK, ie. when a new user is added to a chat or a team, webhook is called, which does not work for online meetings. However for v3 of the Bots SDK there is a mention:
The conversationUpdate event with the membersAdded object in the
payload is sent when a user is added to a private scheduled meeting.
The event details will be sent even when anonymous users join the
meeting.
I've not tried this version of SDK, but i think it has the same behaviour as v4.7 because i don't see any request comming to my bot's webhook when an user joins a meeting.
Moreover, when i request Members of a meeting on message event to a bot by invoking:
var members = await TeamsInfo.GetMembersAsync(turnContext);
i get a list of team/chat members where a meeting is created but not the list of attendees of a meeting for the current time.
Retrieve the attendee report of an event
By this request, I can get the list of attenees, but only for live events.
However Teams clients (in preview mode now) can get this report for ordinary meeting with the full history of who/when entered/leaved a meeting with even guest names(!).
Anyway, this method has the following disadvantages:
As mentioned in the Get onlineMeeting and according to the Allow applications to access online meetings on behalf of a user, a Tenant administrator have to invoke PS command Grant-CsApplicationAccessPolicy for each meeting organiser, to grand my app permision to download this report
Administrators must create an application access policy and grant it to a user, authorizing the
app configured in the policy to retrieve an
online meeting on behalf of that user (user ID specified in the
request path).
Uses Beta version of the GraphAPI, so it can't be used in production
callRecord subscription
According to the Create subscription, i can subscribe to create and update events of a callRecord, and everything works well - when a meeting call is finished, my notification URL is called in 5-20 minutes, so i can find original meeting by callRecord.joinWebUrl and Get onlineMeeting:Example 3. Seems it's most suitable method for me, but has the following disadvantages:
Guests cannot be identified, their names as them passed in MSTeams clients are not reported to callRecord ie. callRecord.Participants[].AddtionalData["guest"].displayName == "Guest user" for any guest (seems like a bug), however entered/leaved information can be found by searching callRecord.Participants[].AddtionalData["guest"].id in callRecord.Sessions[].Segments[].Caller.Identity.AddtionalData["guest"].id
External users cannot be also indentified, callRecord.Participants[].User.DisplayName == "External user" for any external user, however i can retrive tenantId and userId, but still cannot get user's profile because my app has to have Directory.Read.All permision in that tenant, and it's not possible for every tenant.
PS. I can setup MSTeams to do not allow guests or external users, then it works partially well, because each user has to have Teams license assigned, and there is NO login page appears during joining a meeting, just an error page saying that meeting does not allow guest or external users, so the user should find a link to login to a tenant, which is not obvious in MSTeams Web Client, but possible.
PSS. In the Microsoft Teams admin center, i've checked the calling history of an organiser for a meeting with 1 guest, 1 tenant and 1 external and here it is:
Seems for guests, displayName is not stored at all, however for an external user there AAD email is stored (this is AAD guest user ie has '#EXT#' in his principal name, and has the same email as on the picture), however i'm not sure from where it resolved from by Azure - either from external tenant AAD or my tenant AAD for external user, because Azure has access to both.
So, maybe you know a method to get attendees and their times in a meeting call ?
Thank you for your suggestion/advice/reply !
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Teams by default generate attendees report and meeting report after completion of meeting call. We can able to see the list of attendees and the report. But at present we don't have any API to fetch list of attendees and their timings.
As this feature is not available at present, could you please raise an UserVoice if this needs to be consider as a future request.
We have a bot service running in MS Azure and a corresponding Teams app. This bot service is used by multiple customers. Requirement is to allow customers to change the bot name/icon that is shown in the Teams chat (please refer image below).
We can change the name and icon by changing it in the Teams App. However, this will require creating a separate Teams app for each customer. Is it possible to control this via the bot service code running in Azure? We want to do it programmatically based on logged-in user's domain. Is there anyway to do it?
Edit: Found a related post
Thanks
Vivek
This is not possible within a single bot - it's set at the level of the the bot registration, in Azure, and so can't be changed tenant by tenant in Teams, for example. You'd need to create a bot for every customer (tenant), or go with a generic name and image. You can of course customize the welcome message, responses from the bot, etc.
Is there any way to send activities that are happening in external application to ms teams activity feed through any api.Now I have designed a blog where other users can like comment and follow my post in the blog.So I want to get all the activities that are happening in my blog to ms teams.
The Microsoft Graph REST API uses a webhook mechanism to deliver change notifications to clients. A client is a web service that configures its own URL to receive notifications. Client apps use notifications to update their state upon changes.
subscription operations require read permission to the resource. For example, to get notifications for messages, your app needs the Mail.Read permission.
Please look at change notification API
I would like to create a webservice capable of automatically sending messages in Microsoft Teams. I tried authenticating as an application, but currently Microsoft does not support granting application permissions to send messages in Teams, so the only choice here is to authenticate using a service account with real credentials (Unless there is another way?). This method only specifies using user interaction to log in as a user.
I would like to use a service account teamchatbot#domain.com to authenticate with Microsoft Graph in order to send messages on Microsoft Teams. (similar to this but since I'm not accessing a resource it is a little different.) Is there a way I can silently obtain an access token on behalf of the service account in order to send messages?
It seems that you have a misunderstanding.
Your scene is actually the same as this post.
You should use Resource Owner Password Credentials to call Microsoft Graph API to send messages.
Based on permissions, you need the Group.ReadWrite.All delegated permission. So you need to add this permission into your Azure AD app firstly.
Don't forget to click on "Grant admin consent for {your tenant}" after you add this permission.
Then you can get an access token like this:
You can see that https://graph.microsoft.com/Group.ReadWrite.All has been included in the response.
Now you could use this access token to call POST /teams/{id}/channels/{id}/messages.
There are a few other ways I can think of.
1) One is that you can create a Bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework, and once that bot is installed to the particular team, it can send "pro-active" messages (i.e. not a message in response to a user's message, but rather whenever you need).
Essentially, when you bot is added to the team, you get access to a specific event in your bot (OnMembersAdded for a general bot, and there's now a new event just for Teams). See more on this in my answer on Detect bot application open event. In this event, you get the information you need for later, which you can store in a database or wherever, and then create the message as if it's your bot posting to the channel. You can see more on that at Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams.
This option above is a lot of work, but useful if there's other functionality you want from a bot (e.g. the ability to receive messages from the users)
2) Another, and even more simple way, is to create an incoming webhook directly to the channel. Here's a post on doing this using PowerShell, so you can do that for simple testing and extrapolate from there for Node.
Of course, things like Flow (Power Automate) are an option too, but you're already writing code so one of the above is probably easier.
Hope that helps
I am trying to enable Cortana channel to my Azure Bot Service. I am getting below message-
The bot was created by my official MSA ID under a subscription. I checked the publish profile and it seems the username and password is different and probably auto generated when I created the bot in Azure. Do I need to change the publish profile to use my official ID and password? In that case my credentials will be visible to anyone who is using the app in Azure portal.
Also my app seems to be registered on the bot framework portal-
However while navigating to-
https://dev.botframework.com/bots/channels?id=mybotid&channelId=cortana
I see the same message saying Cortana channel cannot be added.
Few observations-
Unable to edit the app ID field
Anyone can access the link- https://dev.botframework.com/bots/settings?id=mybotid even if the ownership is only having my email ID
Any help on this?