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Tag: Microsoft Teams

#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 6/N

Hi ! Now that we have all the necessary steps to play with a Trivia question using Power Automate and Microsoft Teams, I think it will be nice to have an online event to build this all together. That’s will I’ll host an event, on Dec 15th to explain and show the step-by-step for this. — read more

Dec 5, 2022
#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 5/N

Hi ! Now that we have the core steps to request a Trivia question from the API, send the question to a user and process the user’s answers, let’s work on the trigger. My final idea is to use a trigger from Teams, then validate that the message body contains the words ‘start trivia’ and, — read more

Nov 29, 2022
#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 4/N

Hi ! In previous posts we request a Trivia quesion using the Open Trivia Database API, and sent the question as a message using Teams Flow Bot. Context The process of the quesion is fine, however, the way that we process the answers has a flaw. Let’s take a look at steps in the current — read more

Nov 28, 2022
#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 3/N

Hi ! In previous posts we request a Trivia quesion using the Open Trivia Database API, and sent a mesage to teams so an user can read the question and pick an answer. In today’s post, les process the user’ answer. The flow is simple: Once the flow is running, we can see in the — read more

Nov 25, 2022
#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 2/N

Hi ! Let´s analyze the response from the API query for a single question [https://www.otriviata.com/api.php?amount=1]. We have a collection of results (questions) with only one result. Power Automate Flow Steps In order to get this, let’s use a HTTP step. Our next is to use a [Parse JSON] step to work with the data from — read more

Nov 24, 2022
#PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 🤖 1/N

Hi ! A couple of days ago, I found a super cool connector in the Power Platform that allows us to get trivia questions from the Open Trivia Database. I started to play around with the API, and hey, I created a bot that ask questions and present the options for the answers. Here is — read more

Nov 22, 2022
#Coding4Fun – RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree 🎄 sync with Microsoft Teams (2/N) Azure AD, 🦒 and Apps

Hi ! Back in the Microsoft Lync days, we had access to an SDK that allowed us to interact with the Messaging client in a local mode. As of today, there is not similar SDK to interact with Microsoft Teams. So, if I want to know the status of an user in Microsoft Teams, we — read more

Dec 18, 2020
#Coding4Fun – #RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree 🎄 sync with #MicrosoftTeams (1/N) Why? Why not !

Hi ! So I was preparing boxes with gadgets I have for our next house move, and I realized that I had a super cool Led based Christmas Tree, that can be used with a Raspberry Pi. The device can be programmed with Python, so I decided to go in my notes and I found — read more

Dec 17, 2020
#RaspberryPi – New OS allows #MicrosoftTeams in the device ! And a simple but amazing config for the onboard LED

Hi ! We have a new Raspberry Pi OS release – December 2020 (see references) and it adds tons of new features. The latest version upgrades Chromium, to a version that allow us to to: join teams calls ! I’m starting to think on have a custom Teams Kiosk just to join meetings, without using — read more

Dec 7, 2020
#Teams – How to add your custom background (not official and at your own risk!)

Hi ! If you are a Microsoft Teams user, you are probably happy. We are getting the amazing feature which allows us to change our background. The feature uses AI to detect our body and head, and change everything else by a custom background. So cool ! However, in the current release of the feature, — read more

Apr 15, 2020
#MSTeams – #SnapChat lenses on Microsoft Teams ! (Why not? and #ToiletPaper as a bonus)

Hi ! Let’s go with a fun off-topic for a Friday, and let’s use some SnapChat lenses in our camera feed in Microsoft Teams. Disclaimer: This is not a very useful post, but in this Covid-19 days, you can get some fun with this in all the virtual meetings. So, simple steps Close Teams App — read more

Mar 20, 2020
#RaspberryPi – Microsoft Teams in RPi 4? Mmm, not yet, but it’s an interesting learning journey to start the New Year 2020

Hi! A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a preview version of Microsoft Teams for Linux (see references). Since that day, I was hoping to have a chance to play around with this version, mostly in a Raspberry Pi. Those days I also had this conversation with my best half (who is a very smart — read more

Dec 31, 2019
#Labs – Microsoft Teams available on #linux, and this is the right way to install it

Update: This post was written on 2019 Dec, so there was a lot of changes since them. Apologies if the links or screenshots are not like the ones you may find today Hi! I’ve using Microsoft Teams in Windows 10 and MacOS and the experience is amazing. When I was trying to work only in — read more

Dec 11, 2019
#Office – Live subtitles in Microsoft Teams, oh yeah! Another great #AI live sample.

Hi ! I usually use the live subtitle demo feature in PowerPoint to showcase how amazing is the current state of AI, and how we can use it in our daily lives. And now, after the official announcement of Microsoft, we can also use the live subtitle feature in Microsoft Teams. As you can expect — read more

Jul 22, 2019
#Microsoft – There were more than #Surface Laptop on Microsoft event 2 days ago: #MSTeams and #3D

Hi ! A couple of days ago, Microsoft hosted an event were they revealed a new device for the Surface family: Surface Laptop. It has everything you may expect from a Surface device: great presentation, amazing hardware features and a couple of “buts”. In example, the lack of color options in the top level hardware — read more

May 4, 2017
#Microsoft – Lo que (tal vez) no viste en la presentación de #Surface Laptop, #MSTeams y #3D

Hola ! Hace un par de días Microsoft presentó un nuevo device para la familia Surface: Surface Laptop. Como todos los productos Surface, es posee un acabado genial, unas prestaciones muy buenas y también podemos encontrarle algunos “peros”. Por ejemplo, el no poder seleccionar colores en la “gama alta” o no tener puertos USB-C. Al — read more

May 4, 2017
#TFS – Adios a TFS Team Rooms

Hola ! Recuerdo cuando probé por primera vez Team Rooms en Team Foundation Server, la idea me pareció simplemente genial. Inclusive escribí algún post al respecto (link) y las utilicé durante mucho tiempo. En estos días, donde todo el mundo habla y se autoproclama experto en herramientas de collaboración, hay que reconocer que TFS Team — read more

Jan 9, 2017
#VSTS – Now also integrated with #MicrosoftTeams

Hello! Now it is already public: Microsoft Teams have been released! A few hours ago was the official presentation of this tool, which basically comes to compete against Slack. Personally I have to say that I use Slack out of work and I have been testing Microsoft Teams for some time at work. Each has its pros — read more

Nov 3, 2016
#VSTS – Ahora también con #MicrosoftTeams

Hola ! Ahora ya es público: Microsoft Teams ha sido anunciando. Hace unas horas se realizó la presentación oficial de esta herramienta, que básicamente viene a competir contra un grande como Slack. Personalmente tengo que decir que utilizo Slack, fuera del trabajo y he estado probando Microsoft Teams desde hace un tiempo at work. Cada uno tiene sus pros y — read more

Nov 3, 2016