Bring your custom engine copilot from Azure OpenAI Studio to Microsoft Teams: now in public preview

Table of Contents

1. Pre-requisites
2. Configure your data in the chat playground
3. Bring your chat experience to Teams
4. Test your app on Teams
5. Next Steps

Pre-requisites

To get started, make sure you have the following:

• Visual Studio Code
• Teams Toolkit
• Node.js (supported versions 16, 18)
• A Microsoft 365 developer account
• Azure CLI
• An Azure OpenAI Service with gpt-3.5-turbo or higher model deployed

Configure your data in the chat playground

1. Design your chat experience on Azure OpenAI Studio.
2. Navigate to Chat and Add your data, then Add a data source.
3. Upload the files you want to use as your data in the chat app.
4. Select the Azure resource authentication type.

Bring your chat experience to Teams

1. In the Chat playground, select Deploy to and choose the A new Teams app (preview) option.
2. Download the source code for your Teams app with integrated data.

Test your app on Teams

1. Explore the project source code and select Teams Toolkit from the left side menu.

Next Steps

• Check out the tutorial on building your custom copilot for Teams with your data from scratch powered by Teams AI library and Teams Toolkit.
• Learn about role-based access control for Azure OpenAI.
• Explore deploying to a Teams app, provisioning your app, deploying to Azure, and publishing to Teams.

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