Security changes coming to Azure Web Apps, affecting Azure Bot Service

Beginning tomorrow,  from May 15th to May 30th 2018 (03/15/2018 – 05/30/2018), Azure Web Apps will be rolling out stricter protocol enforcement world-wide. This will impact clients that are using TLS 1.0 without an SNI header. The only resolution is to upgrade the clients to use TLS 1.2 (preferable), TLS 1.1, or TLS 1.0 with an SNI header. Overview Azure Web….

Build a Microsoft Bot Framework bot with the Bot Builder SDK v4

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/SMS to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services. The new version 4 SDK provides a new, rich, multi-language SDK for building bots using C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java. Bot Builder v4 helps you with….

Microsoft Conversational AI tools enable developers to build, connect and manage intelligent bots

Conversational AI is the next user interface (UI) wave in computing. We’ve evolved from a world of having to learn and adapt to computers to one where they’re learning how to understand and interact with us. Natural interactions with computers start with language, speech, and semantic understanding, and continues through supporting rich multi model interactions. Today at the Build conference, we are announcing major updates related to our Conversational AI tools including updates….

Announcing General Availability of QnAMaker

QnAMaker is announcing general availability at //build/ 2018. QnAMaker is a Microsoft Cognitive Service that makes it easy to power a question-answer application or chatbot from semi-structured content like FAQs and product manuals. QnAMaker GA stack was built with scalability and data privacy in mind while keeping it still easy-to-use. In this post, we will break down the major differences….