I've been seeing changes in the Enterprise Bot template and Basic Bot template. Thanks in advance
The v4 Framework is indeed production ready. As with any framework, it is constantly being improved upon, and when those improvements cause bugs, they might lead to changes in the templates. If any of the improvements break production bots, you are more then welcome to seek help either here or on our Github repos. (Source: am Microsoft bot framework person)
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I am trying to integrate A Chat Bot Service with A client who uses the Skype For Business Server 2019. On Microsoft Docs Page, I found that UCWA 2.0 exposes SFB Server 2015 instant messaging (IM) and presence capabilities. Could anyone please confirm whether this holds good for SFB Server 2019?
Do we have any better way to integrate the Bots with SFB Server 2019 other than UCWA 2.0 (As I came across the docs that mentioned UCWA having IM limitations and scaling issues)?
From this doc, Bot Framework also deprecated the support for Skype or business channel.
Please provide any information you have regarding this. Thanks in advance.
I suspect that UCWA will scale just fine, I know of some projects for pretty large organisations that have used it.
As an alternative you could look at UCMA 6.0 (which is more feature complete than UCWA), this is the SFB 2019 release and whilst I haven't seen any explicit documentation for this version I very much doubt it has changed much since UCMA 5.0 as the Microsoft strategy at the time of release was focused on Teams.
There’s 3rd party software available that can help with this, check out MindLink. Their API supports various versions of SfB server and I believe 2019 is covered too. You can apply throttling and other management capabilities so it is built to scale - it could be more for the enterprise, then again I don’t know what your project is.
My company is evaluating Bot frameworks. Each vendor we demoed with so far has shown some great visual tools to build conversations workflows. Is there a similar tool offered by MicroSoft?
I'm developing a Microsoft Teams Tab App for internal company use. During development and testing, side-loading works good.
How do I distribute the app and make it available to all Teams and Channels in my tenant?
Unfortunately this is not yet supported, but we are working on it and hope to have it by early next year.
Facebook recently announced Chat Extensions which will allow group-based interaction with bots. More about how that works is listed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/design/guides/chat-extensions
Has any announcement been made about when the Microsoft Bot Framework will support this feature of FB?
I suggest you make a new issue asking for this enhancement on GitHub
I am a recent graduate, who has done some work experience at a company developing/designing Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solutions. I have moved on from there and have no official ties anymore. However, I do see the future in this product and I would like to keep developing solutions and increasing my development knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Taking into account the above and that I have a job in a different IT area. As well as the fact that I am determined to start this from scratch... What are my options?
My intentions for the future(1-3 yrs) is to develop Microsoft CRM 2013 Solutions and hopefully sell to local small businesses.
MSDN subscription or using trial subscription on CRM Online instance or using trial key:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40341
Or if you want to be a startup, you might be eligible for BizSpark subscription:
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
I think your best bet would be to get an online subscription. Your solution's code should be 100% compatible with the new CRM APIs in the SDK. Running everything from an online CRM solution would ensure it will work. This will also ensure that when the next version is released, you will be ready for it.
Unless Microsoft changes their licensing, this might be your only reasonably priced choice.
Try the Demo Builder:
http://demobuilder.cloudapp.net/unauthenticated-home/#
It's a Wizard base tool that will guide you through the process of setting up an online demo environment.
There are a bunch of templates that you can select from that will give you a good idea of the different scenarios where CRM can be deployed.