SelectedTech Podcast

The SelectedTech Podcast episode 002 about local QnA bot development and deployment to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams is now available. We recorded the session on July 4th 2019. Check it out and leave a comment or send a tweet or message if you have any questions.

In this episode, we take the QnA bot from webinar 001 and download the code to a local machine. After showing how to run the bot in a local IIS we use ngrok for tunnelling access for a Teams deployment. After making a minor code change we republish the bot and make sure everything is still working. The episode ends with Rick asking Stephan about using Azure DevOps for CI/CD which will be our topic for Webinar 003.

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Welcome to our first SelectedTech Podcast. We are four MVPs from Europe and we decided to start our own webinar series. What we want to show is how we do stuff. We meet online and hit the record button. There is not a lot of time for preparation or planning for our webinars. As a result, you will see mistakes and errors, not high polished content. We strongly believe that showing how to overcome those hiccups adds additional value to the content.

In our first episode, we create a QnA knowledge base in Azure. We show how to create the resources needed in the Azure portal and how to add pairs of questions and answers to your knowledge base. After that, we use the bot template in Azure to start our conversational endpoint. By using the QnA config we connect the knowledge base with the bot and deploy our newly created application to Microsoft Teams.

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