In Skype for business, if you are working from home you could set your status to "Working from Home" and Everytime you reconnect to that same network Skype for business will remember your status from last time you were on that network so you don't have to set it again. How can you do that in Microsoft Teams?
After a bunch more digging I found that it is not the status message in Skype for Business but the location I was thinking of, and it would appear that is not in Teams and at the moment is not even on the roadmap.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-AMA/Set-your-location-in-Microsoft-Teams/m-p/120555
There is a uservoice where people are requesting this but it is only under review.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33331429-my-location
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Right now we use 3 different programs in my company for communicating. We use
Slack
Skype for business
Skype
The problem is that if I got a call or have a meeting in Slack the other software shows me as available and people try to call me as well... Is there any software that automatically shares my status between all these programs?
Call in S4B -> Slack: Change status to "busy"
I have created a Skype bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework and published it with Azure bot channel registration. I can chat with the bot and it works fine.
But I'm not able to add this bot to any group conversation.
I've made sure that Enable adding to a group option is selected for this bot in the Skype channel config section.
EDIT:
A day passed and now I can add bot to groups and see its avatar from Skype PC client. But I have the same issue when working from Mac / iPad client.
Per Skype tech support, the Bots support functionality will be discontinued.
But according to Azure channels documentation:
As of October 31, 2019 the Skype channel no longer accepts new Bot publishing requests. This means that you can continue to develop bots using the Skype channel, but your bot will be limited to 100 users. You will not be able to publish your bot to a larger audience. Current Skype bots will continue to run uninterrupted
I'm ok with my bot being limited to 100 users, I just want it to work and behave correctly on all platforms.
EDIT 2:
Now bot works fine on all the platforms I have. Not sure if this was a caching issue on Skype side or if recent app updates fixed that.
You might be interested in this answer: Add bot to existing Skype group chat
If you use the Add bots button in the group profile you will only be
able to look up published bots:
However, if you use the Add to Group button in the upper right corner
(not available in the mobile client), you can find your bots that are
still in preview:
As you can see, this currently only works in the desktop client. If you are getting undesired behavior in other clients, the only thing anyone can do on Stack Overflow is recommend workarounds or tell you to report the bug. Since Skype bots are mostly deprecated, I do not expect this bug to be fixed but you can try to report it anyway. My recommended workaround is to stop using deprecated channels if you would like a better experience. Microsoft Teams is great for corporate communications. If you want personal communication then you may have to use a third-party channel like Slack or Telegram.
I need to create a Skype bot, but registration of new bots was terminated.
In this regard, I have several questions:
Will an alternative technology for automatically sending messages to classic skype (No skype for business) be provided?
will registration of new bots be renewed, if so how soon?
is it possible to register a bot as an exception? Since it is extremely important for the further development of our software product.
As per the documentation
As of October 31, 2019 the Skype channel no longer accepts new Bot publishing requests. This means that you can continue to develop bots using the Skype channel, but your bot will be limited to 100 users. You will not be able to publish your bot to a larger audience. Current Skype bots will continue to run uninterrupted. Learn more
You are still able to develop Skype bot but they will be limited to 100 users.
I think they are more focusing on Microsoft Teams instead.
We are building a bot using the MS Bot Framework. Sometimes when the bot is not used, it takes too much time to respond and we get a [500] Internal Server Error. We see this issue when we try to access the bot on our app (we are using Direct Line to interact with the bot).
I've read other answers about making sure the Microsoft Azure setting for application activity is set to "Always On", and we have done this. But as Always on is pinging the root of our bot web app, I think it may not be enough to keep the bot / directline alive...
And I don't have any rewrite rules from http to https preventing the ping request to be successful..
Anybody had this issue?
UPDATE to ask a specific question : How can we make sure that our bot is ALWAYS alive if all the settings explained above do not work ? Should we ping our bot thru the directline framework ?
One way to do it would be to send a ping every 15 minutes. The default code even gives you a place to handle the ping in the message controller
else if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.Ping)
{
}
please also take a look at this post as it may work for you and is a very simple solution with no code.
I had to create an azure function that pings my service, as I was having this same problem. I have Always On for all my services, and still find the bot going to sleep. With the ping service, it establishes a new conversation, sends the utterance, and then closes after receiving the response. This has seemed to work, but is only a week into practice. Note, I am pinging every five minutes.
Does APNS Feedback Service accounts all the reasons that could cause notifications delivery failure. There can be multiple reasons for failure like
a. The user has uninstalled the application.
b. The device is switched off for a longer duration.
c. The device does not have internet connection.
The apple doc on "Feedback Service" says that
"If a provider attempts to deliver a push notification to an application, but the application no longer exists on the device, the device reports that fact to Apple Push Notification Service. This situation often happens when the user has uninstalled the application"
This seems to suggest that APNS only invalidate the devices which have uninstalled the application. Can anyone please clarify if my assumption is correct?
How many times does APNS attempt to deliver the notification before it blacklist the device in the feedback service?
As you have correctly stated, the Feedback service will only return device tokens that have uninstalled the app.
Regarding situations b and c:
b) and c), taken from the Quality of Service section in the official Push Notification guide it states the following:
Apple Push Notification Service includes a default Quality of Service
(QoS) component that performs a store-and-forward function.
If APNs attempts to deliver a notification but the device is offline,
the QoS stores the notification.
It retains only one notification per application on a device: the last
notification received from a provider for that application.
When the offline device later reconnects, the QoS forwards the stored
notification to the device. The QoS retains a notification for a
limited period before deleting it.
I believe this answers those queries; in relation to "how many attempts before being blacklisted" - I sincerely doubt you will find any specific numbers for this. (else people would use them as workarounds)
After completing the delivery of a message, I would highly recommend connecting to the feedback service, seeing if any tokens were rejected and then immediately removing these from your database. Hope this helps!