Signing up for a developer plan for Power Virtual Agents

Sarah Critchley, Principal Program Manager, Conversational AI, 2022年12月9日

We heard from our community that you want to be able to try out Power Virtual Agents’ new features before buying. Well, now you can by combining Microsoft’s 365 Developer plan, Power Apps Developer plan, and the Power Virtual Agents trial. Follow these four easy steps below to get set up and try out all the new features like advanced topic management, interactive adaptive cards, multi-media responses (images, videos, quick replies), PowerFX, variable management, and more!

Power Virtual Agents + Community = Best practices for the new advanced authoring canvas

Henry Jammes, Principal Program Manager, Power CAT, 2022年12月1日

The new unified authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents has only been in preview for a few weeks but it has already received a ton of positive community reviews and coverage. This article is a summary of these and a grateful testimony to the Power Platform community members who created these amazing contents.

New Process Advisor template enables deeper insight into bot conversation flows

Henry Jammes, Principal Program Manager, Power CAT, 2022年11月17日

Power Virtual Agents comes with a new template in Power Automate Process Advisor that offers a dialog map of how conversations have flown between topics, redirects, and their outcome.

Now in Public Preview: Power Virtual Agents’ new advanced authoring canvas

Omar Aftab, Vice President, Conversational AI, 2022年11月10日

We are excited to announce the Public Preview launch of Power Virtual Agents’ new and enhanced authoring canvas!

Announcing Power Virtual Agents Customer Playbook

Matthew Farmer, Senior PM, Power CAT, 2022年1月27日

The Playbook helps customers and partners embarking on a complex PVA chatbot implementation to learn from from our experience and set their project up for success.

Regex (regular expression) entity support in Power Virtual Agents

Jeff Zhang (CCI), 2021年8月24日

You can now create and use regular expression (regex) entities in your Power Virtual Agents bot.

AI-assisted authoring: detect topic overlaps and get topic suggestions from bot sessions

Jeff Zhang (CCI), 2021年6月22日

AI-assisted bot authoring features – Topic overlap detection and Topic suggestions from chat transcripts are now available for public preview. 

Power Virtual Agents Architecture Series – now available!

Matthew Farmer, Senior PM, Power CAT, 2021年6月7日

The Power Virtual Agents Architecture Series builds session by session covering features, design choices and management to help Architects, Developers and IT Decision Makers successfully implement PVA projects.

Partner with admin to roll out bot in Microsoft Teams

Michael Chow, Principal Program Manager, 2021年5月25日

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

Webinar: Building a Crisis FAQ chat bot with Power Virtual Agents on May 1st

Charles Sterling, 2020年4月14日

A webinar to walk through the best practices and tips for building a crisis response chat bot for your organization. When: May 1st 10AM PST Where: https://aka.ms/PVACrisisWebinar