Botframework connector effect? - Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams

Question

Hello,

I read the announcement about Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams

(https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/retirement-of-office-365-connectors-within-microsoft-teams/#comments)

My organization's app is using ConnectorClient from botframework

from botframework.connector import ConnectorClient

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/botframework-connector/botframework.connector.connectorclient?view=botbuilder-py-latest

Can I be assured this won't be effected by the upcoming degradation?

Thank you!

Best regards

Answer 1

Hi @Yael Magrafta

Bot Framework and Office 365 Connectors are two different services.

Bot Framework Connector is part of Bot Framework and allows bots to exchange messages with multiple channels such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Skype, etc. It uses standard REST and JSON protocols, communicates over HTTPS, and supports authentication.

Office 365 Connectors is a different service that is mainly used to integrate information and notifications from external services such as GitHub, Trello, Twitter, etc. into Office 365 groups. They send this information to the conversation of the Office 365 group through the connector card.

Although both services involve integration with external services, their purposes and functions are different. So disabling the Office 365 connector in Microsoft Teams will not affect it.

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