Dewain Robinson and Gary Pretty from Microsoft talk with Paul about the recently released Bot Virtual Agent. Dewain and Gary cover the Virtual Assistant & Skills solution accelerator and the updated tools (Bot Composer and Dialog Generation) that support their development.

Links from the show: * Bot Framework Composer * Virtual Assisstant Solution Accelerator * Dialog Generation * Conversational AI Build session * Alexa on Azure Bot Service

Microsoft News * Breaking changes for Microsoft Teams beta APIs – permissions for installing personal apps, removing unused properties from code snippets * Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.11: Extend more of Microsoft Teams, and publish to AppSource * Duration of change tracking tokens for identity and education resources * Microsoft Graph Schema extensions is now available in US Government Clouds * MSAL.js 2.0 is now generally available with support for authorization code flow

Community Links * Azure Tips and Tricks - Power Virtual Agents (@mbcrump)