Automate testing of your Power Virtual Agents chatbots with the PVA Test Framework sample solution

Henry Jammes, Principal Program Manager, Power CAT, Friday 11 August 2023

The PVA Test Framework for Power Virtual Agents is a sample solution published on GitHub that demonstrates how to run tests against a chatbot using the Direct Line channel, and validate that the bot works as expected

Center of Excellence Starter Kit with Power Virtual Agents: Govern, Monitor and Manage

Henry Jammes, Principal Program Manager, Power CAT, Wednesday 7 December 2022

In its December 2022 release, the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starker Kit introduces several improvements that help organizations better govern and monitor the usage of Power Virtual Agents bots in their tenant.

Announcing the preview of Power Virtual Agents Customer Lockbox support

Diganta Kumar, Principal Product Manager, Conversational AI, Tuesday 9 August 2022

Customer Lockbox enables administrators to control access to their organization data from Microsoft personnel during troubleshooting.

Announcing the General Availability of Microsoft Power Virtual Agents for US Government customers

Diganta Kumar, Principal Product Manager, Conversational AI, Tuesday 8 February 2022

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents is general availability for US Government customers. Agencies can now enables anyone to create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-code graphical interface, without the need for data scientists or developers.

Power Virtual Agents bots as skills with Bot Framework bots – General Availability

Marina Kolomiets, Senior Program Manager, Thursday 3 February 2022

If you are using Bot Framework bots in your organization, you can now easily extend their functionality by calling your Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill. Bot Framework bots can use Power Virtual Agents bot skill manifest to configure a skill connection and invoke Power Virtual Agents functionality at runtime.

Power Virtual Agents bots as skills with Bot Framework bots – Public Preview

Marina Kolomiets, Senior Program Manager, Thursday 9 September 2021

If you are using Bot Framework bots in your organization, you can now easily extend their functionality by calling your Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill. Bot Framework bots can use Power Virtual Agents bot skill manifest to configure a skill connection and invoke Power Virtual Agents functionality at runtime.

Announcing the general availability of Power Virtual Agents export and import chatbots using solutions

Diganta Kumar, Principal Product Manager, Conversational AI, Monday 2 August 2021

Manage your Power Virtual Agents chatbot’s lifecycle to address change control, governance, data residency, and latency requirements by exporting and importing across environments in web and Microsoft Teams.

Partner with admin to roll out bot in Microsoft Teams

Michael Chow, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday 25 May 2021

Power Virtual Agents makes it super easy for bot authors to partner with their admin on bot roll out.

Power Virtual Agents integration with Bot Framework Composer is now generally available

Marina Kolomiets, Senior Program Manager, Tuesday 25 May 2021

We are announcing the general availability of Microsoft Power Virtual Agents integration with Microsoft Bot Framework Composer.

Announcing that Power Virtual Agents is FedRAMP, HITRUST, PCI, and OSPAR compliant

Diganta Kumar, Principal Product Manager, Conversational AI, Wednesday 19 May 2021

Announcing that Power Virtual Agents acquired the following certifications: Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), and Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR).