Introduction

Enhance your digital workspace by connecting the power of AI-driven chatbots with Microsoft 365 tools. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a seamless user experience by integrating Power Virtual Agent chatbots with SharePoint and Microsoft Teams—all through the Microsoft Power Platform.

You will:

  • Build a SharePoint site and list to serve as a dynamic data source

  • Design a chatbot in Power Virtual Agents with structured topics and user interactions

  • Create Power Automate flows to connect chatbot conversations with SharePoint data

  • Set up input and output parameters for real-time communication between services

  • Embed your chatbot into Microsoft Teams for easy access and collaboration

With a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account, you can start building smart, responsive bots that streamline tasks, improve user engagement, and automate workflows—all without writing complex code.

Key Knowledge and Tips

  • Microsoft 365 Developer Program account gives you the possibility to use Power Platform
  • You can create a SharePoint list with data and use it as a data source to the chatbot
  • You can call a Power Automate flow or ask the user to sign in inside a topic
  • You can ask user a question and set up the responses they can choose to reply to the question inside a topic
  • You can redirect the user to some other topic inside a topic
  • You can set up Output in Return values to the Power Virtual Agent’s action to send information from the Power Automate flow to the chatbot
  • Input can be set in the flow’s Power Virtual Agent’s trigger and with that, the chatbot can send information to the flow
  • A Power Virtual Agent chatbot can be embedded into any website,  into Skype, and into Microsoft Teams