Teams Proactive Messaging Bot
A real-world automation bot that triggers proactive notifications into Microsoft Teams — directly from the command line — using Teams Toolkit, Bot Framework, and Azure Identity.
Role
DevOps Engineer · Bot Builder
Tech Stack
Teams Toolkit, Bot Framework, Azure, Node.js / PowerShell
Highlights
CLI-triggered notifications · Real-time collaboration · Demo-ready automation
Overview
Proactive bots allow Teams apps to send messages without waiting for the user to initiate a conversation. In this project, I built a workflow where a simple command-line action triggers an automated message to appear inside a Teams channel. This capability is powerful for DevOps automation, incident response, CI/CD pipelines, and modern collaboration use cases.
Instead of asking people to “go check the dashboard,” the bot pushes a clean, formatted update into the place where the team already talks — with enough context to act on quickly.
Architecture
The solution is built from a few focused components:
- Teams Toolkit: scaffolds the bot, Teams app manifest, and local debug experience.
- Azure Bot Service: provides identity and connectivity for the bot.
- Bot Framework Adapter: stores conversation references required for proactive messaging.
- CLI trigger: a Node.js / PowerShell script that calls a secure endpoint to send the notification payload.
- Teams channel: receives the message with metadata like environment, event type, and link to deeper logs or dashboards.