Create Your Own Microsoft Teams Chat Bot Using Python | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Learn how to build and deploy a custom chat bot for Microsoft Teams using Python and Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. This comprehensive tutorial walks you through the entire process, from initial setup to successful deployment.

✨ What You'll Learn:
Setting up Teams Toolkit in VS Code
Creating a Python-based Teams bot
Implementing chat functionality
Troubleshooting the common "no response" issue
Deploying your bot to Microsoft Teams

🔧 Prerequisites:
Visual Studio Code
Teams Toolkit Extension
Python
Microsoft Teams Account
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[rohanparekh]

This has been the best tutorial I have found for developing teams bot. I am currently working at a company where I am trying to develop a teams AI bot using LLM’s and RAG. I found this really useful to start setting up the requirements and deployment.
Thankyou for this amazing content. Great stuff!

[marcosquagliardi]

Thanks Dylan ! Very clear explained, great video !

[DylanHumphreys]

Thank you all for your kind words. A New video is in progress. I will try and cover everything you have requested here.

[NiteGamic]

Very nice can we also link AI Search and indexed data from a Storage Account to help answer questions, that would be really helpful. 😄

[stellarfalcon]

@Dylan This is the best tutorial I have seen so far. I had to built a teams bot for a client that utilizes data from AWS bedrock agent. I have built it using PVA and Powerautomate flow with calling an api endpoint. Though the bot is working but there are some unwanted things which I don't see an option to remove within the copilot studio.
Thums Up for this tutorial 🎉

[Clarindavanwyk]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you, and well done. So easy to follow these steps, thank you

[axelsodergard]

Thanks! Very helpful and easy to follow - keep up the good work!!

[nirvikar.]

Great job! Could you help me create a similar chatbot that includes document summarisation capabilities? When a user uploads a document file, the bot should be able to provide a summary.

[pavlonatalenko]

That was helpful, thanks! Hope to see more

[stonedizzleful]

Great video man. We are developing a RAG chatbot at my work at the moment and teams is used quite a lot. We were looking at a custom web ui based frontend but I reckon this would be very helpful. Would be keen to see if you can do something where it hits a custom api

[drummermike]

Hi - great tutorial! I don't have the Python option in the 365 Agents Toolkit (called Teams Toolkit when you made this video). Do you have the Python option in Agents Toolkit. I only have JavaScript and TypeScript when I choose Custom Engine Agent.

[gauravgarg]

Really great tutorial . How to add database from which llm will respond the user questions . And second how we can make this chatbot available for multiple users in org.

[deepakshripad]

Thanks Dylan. My bot ran as usual in Teams however it was not showing any output, I had to remove the logging which restarted it and after some time it started responding. I am looking for mechanism to distribute the bot to others. Do you have any video for that? By the way, it was pleasure to watch your video and I am a subscriber now.

[JoseAlbertoGamezDonjuan]

Thanks for the video, Dylan!

This method would work if I didn't have Azure? What I'm trying to do is a chatbot in Teams and connecting it to my on-premise ERP (SAP) so it can allow our organization to consult information about clientes, balances, status of invoices, etc. If not, what would you recommend?

[kushagrasingh]

This was very helpful! Can we also create a bot where we can connect it with our database API and get answers?

[w_yll]

Hi, first of all congratulations on the excellent content!
But I'm not able to "provision" even though I'm the admin, is there a procedure for this?

[supersmoke]

I'd love to see a video on a Teams bot that interacts with an AI assistant created in n8n hosted on the cloud. Specifically an assistant that calls data from a knowledgebase , i.e. a RAG. thanks!

[VeegaGames]

I've deployed it following step-by-step, BUT My organization does block custom apps, I had to ask the tenant admin to go to Teams admin, allow\unblock the app, then they set it to a custom list of users who can use it, should I worry about anything in the deploy\development process because of that?

Because it still doesn't show in the app store for those users, and when I try to test it locally it lets me try to install it but after clicking "Install" the app, it gives an error message "There has been something wrong" and nothing happens.

[Salamimoerder]

Is it neccessary to have an azure subscription or can i run it locally?

[davitbigvava]

I can't find Microsoft Teams Toolkit, only Microsoft 365 agents toolkit((