Is any API available to add a specific bot to the team's chat

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Hi Team,

We have a feature that allows initiating a chat with a Teams bot. In our scenario, the bot has never been used by the user before, and we only have the user’s email address, Microsoft App ID and password for the specific bot app.

Is it possible to initiate a chat with this specific bot from an Azure Function, considering that the users belong to multiple tenants. Or is there any teams API available to add the specific bot to the user's chat. We will have the direct link which can open the chat.

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Hello lakshmi,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A and thank you for posting your questions here.

I understand that you would like to know if any API available to add a specific bot to the team's chat.

You can use the Microsoft Graph API to add a bot to a Teams chat. This involves using the teamsAppInstallation resource type to install the bot in a team or personal scope: https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/what-are-bots

Also, to initiate a Chat with a Bot from Azure Function it is possible to initiate a chat with a specific bot from an Azure Function. You can use the Microsoft Bot Framework in conjunction with the Microsoft Graph API to send proactive messages to users, for more details and processes check: https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/channel-and-group-conversations and https://zcusa.951200.xyz/en-us/azure/bot-service/channel-connect-teams?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

I hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to let me know if you have any other questions.

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