Setup - Teams Phone Agent Questions and Answers tools

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This article is for IT pros and Teams administrators who want to create Questions and Answers tools for use with Teams Phone Agent.

Planning and licensing review

Planning

Licensing

Known issues

None.

What's new in Teams Phone Agent (last six months)

Steps to create a Questions and Answers tool for Teams Phone Agent

  1. In the Teams admin center, expand Voice, select Templates and resources, select Tools, and then select Add.

    Screenshot showing Tools being selected on the Templates and resources page.

  2. Enter a Name and Description for the tool.

  3. Select Questions and Answers as the tool type.

    Screenshot showing the Questions and Answers tool type when creating a new tool.

  4. Select Knowledge - Document or Knowledge - URL.

    Screenshot showing the Questions and Answers tool with the option to select a document or URL.

    For Knowledge - Document:

    Screenshot showing the Questions and Answers tool when selecting a document.

    During Frontier Public Preview, Teams Phone Agent Questions and Answers tool articles support the following local file types:

    • JSON, XML
    • PDF
    • TXT, CSV
    • DOC, DOCX (Microsoft Word)
    • XLS, XLSX (Microsoft Excel)
    • PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint)
    • ZIP (of any of the supported file types)

    Each Questions and Answers tool may contain a maximum of ten files, totaling no more than 5 MB in size.

    The overall size of the ZIP file is still restricted to 5 MB in size; the expanded file sizes can be larger.

    Tip

    Remember to update your Questions and Answers tools as documents are updated so that Teams Phone Agent can continue to provide the most up-to-date information to callers.

    For Knowledge - URL:

    Screenshot showing the Questions and Answers tool when selecting a URL.

    During Frontier Public Preview, Teams Phone Agent Questions and Answers tool articles support public facing web pages (URLs):

    • Teams Phone Agent does not crawl the website. Only the specific page referenced by the URL is used. Links on the page are not followed.
    • Highly interactive pages requiring user input are not suitable.
    • Pages requiring authentication are not supported.
    • Intranet pages that are only accessible within an organization are not supported. All pages must be public facing.

    During Frontier Public Preview, web pages will NOT be rescanned/refreshed automatically.

  5. Select Save to save your changes.

PowerShell

For instructions on creating a Questions and Answers tool using PowerShell, see Set up Teams Phone Agent with PowerShell.

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