Power Virtual Agents Tutorial for Complete Beginners

This half hour tutorial takes you step by step through the fundamental concepts you need to know to build a no code chatbot with Power Virtual Agents. Watch and pause and build your own bot side by side with this step-by-step instructional video.

You will learn:
- How to create a bot
- What topics are and how to create them
- How to use variables to store information from the user response for the bot to use later
- What entity extraction is and how it enables the bot to have a natural conversation, including skipping questions
- How to test your bot, and publish it to a demo website to share with others
- How to use Power Automate to call an action - in this example we post information from a bot chat into Microsoft Teams
- How to use the topic redirect feature

[smitty]

A couple years later, this is still relevant, useful, and extremely well done.

[ricksegalCanada]

Lisa, this is a textbook case of how to professionally give somebody enough knowledge to a) get excited and b) get productive. 30 minutes of pure knowledge. Well done! P.S. The goof who pressed the dislike button still has a rotary phone, an AOL account, and a black -n- white TV. Ignore em.

[heyrob-net]

Excellent content, Lisa. I'm impressed by the number of comments from people who actually went out and built something.

[sasimelbourne]

Microsoft should place this video on their website. Good job lisa.

[BlazingBulletNZ]

This was the first video in my search results for Power Virtual Agents - it didn't disappoint. Thank you!

[lucas_efraim]

What an AMAZING content. I love it. Thank you for the tutorial.

[TheKuruamparambatta]

Superb.. This video gave me a jump start with VA. Thank you!

[waqasahmed]

I must say you presented it so well, I watched several MS VA videos but this is one is the best. Really appreciate your efforts

[naveensetty]

Excellent excellent excellent 👌👌👌👌. I have gained some confidence now 😀. 👍

[samvithb]

You were amazing. I created a bot after watching ur video

[gopalpotharaju]

You have a great skill other than PVA. And that is your teaching skill. Thank you🙏

[rinretgamaliel]

I need a follow up for this tutorial, just got started with power VA and I really enjoyed it. Well-done!

[allornothing]

Great demo and a superb delivery. You made it nice and simple to understand, well done!

[brenny]

Thank you for the great video! I like how you matched your outfit with the Power Virtual Agents theme 😊

[anurtj]

Crystal clear explanations. Thanks a lot Lisa👍

[sirmacred]

Thanks for this tutorial, Lisa! Clear and simple instructions that a beginner like me can follow easily.

[alfredmuzindemcclevers]

You nailed this madam. Keep up the standard. Well explained and easy to follow

[kristinaklofskar]

Excellent work and instructions Lisa. Now I have managed to do my first Virtual Agent :-)
It was really fun. If you have more vidoes like this for the next step to learn, please add a link here.
Once again, excellent work!

[mketkee]

Many thanks, Lisa! I understood everything. Keep it up

[EdHjorth]

Well done, exactly how a training video should be done 👍