Quick Tip: How to use Microsoft Teams T-Bot

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

November 16, 2016

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Quick Tip: How to use Microsoft Teams T-Bot

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Microsoft Teams is currently in preview and over the last week or so we have been highlighting some of the routine tasks for the team based collaboration service for Office 365 subscribers.

While we enjoy bringing you those tips, there is also another way to learn about Microsoft Teams and that is T-Bot who can answer many of your questions in a chat based interface in your Microsoft Team app/site.

By using natural language inquiries, just like talking to another person, just ask T-Bot questions about the task, feature or other items you are looking for help on. T-Bot will try and provide you the best possible answer based on the content of your question and has a built in feedback system to learn when an answer is on the right track and not related to what you asked about.

That feedback loop will help T-Bot become better at responding to your questions over time and improve the service.

If chatting with T-Bot is not your style then you can always access a full slate of assistance in the various tabs in T-Bot's channel such as General Help, FAQs, and Videos.

Eventually more bots will become available for Microsoft Teams as they are built by developers but in the interim you can access the T-Bot channel by selecting Chat in the left sidebar of your Microsoft Teams app/site.

Don't forget to check out our other Quick Tips for Microsoft Teams:

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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