{"id":4765,"date":"2019-02-28T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:42:53","slug":"did-you-know-microsoft-teams-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4765","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 Microsoft Teams Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve discussed developing bots for use with Teams, but did you know there are already bots available in Teams? Bots published by other companies are available in AppSource<\/a>. Some are published by Microsoft too.<\/p>\n

Who, a bot published by Microsoft, answers questions about the company\u2019s organization. These include concrete organizational questions \u2013 \u201cwho is Lisa Rushworth\u2019s manager\u201d will give you my manager\u2019s contact card. That<\/em> is information I could discover any number of other ways too \u2013 looking in Outlook, the company directory. The unique feature of Who is personalized<\/em> organizational answers.<\/p>\n

How do you use Who? Just start a conversation with \u201cWho\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Or type \u201c\/who\u201d in the command bar atop your Teams window.<\/p>\n

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The first time you converse with Who, you\u2019ll need to install the Who bot and confirm that you want it to search the directory on your behalf.<\/p>\n

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Once Who is installed, you can chat with the bot. Type your question and send the message.<\/p>\n

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Ask something ambiguous \u2013 \u201cWho is Todd?\u201d \u2013 and the results will be unique to you. Todd\u2019s with whom you communicate will be ranked higher in the result set. As will Todd’s who are closer to you in the company organization.<\/p>\n

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You can also ask Who about your own correspondence. I know I\u2019ve talked about WebLogic configuration with a few people in the past, and I want to correspond with the person again. Instead of searching through my e-mail, I can ask Who. You won\u2019t get access specific messages (i.e. you cannot do this to reply to an existing e-mail chain), but contact information helps me remember with whom I’ve previously discussed the topic.<\/p>\n

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You can ask who you met with<\/em> to search calendar items<\/p>\n

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If you ask \u201cwho knows about\u201d a topic, you\u2019ll see results based on Teams posts to which you have access. Who does not<\/em> search conversations to which you do not have access \u2013 so if you\u2019ve never been involved in a discussion about WinCare, you won\u2019t find an expert from posts within their<\/em> Teams spaces.<\/p>\n

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