Category: Azure

Using Azure Bot Service to create Bot

Using Microsoft Bot Framework

Azure Bot Service is an integrated environment that allow us to easily register, build, deploy our bots. It provides the required components and hosting environment for creating bots through Bot Builder SDK using either C# or JavaScript and connector service to connect to various channels.

Login to Azure Portal.

https://portal.azure.com

Search for Web App Bot

We have selected Basic Bot template.

After the Bot Web App is created, we have the option to either Download Bot Source Code to keep developing using Visual Studio or we can open it in online code editor.

Online Code Editor allows to update the source code within the App Service Editor

As the basic bot app template uses the Language Understanding Intelligent Services, we can log on to the Luis

https://www.luis.ai/welcome

There we can see the app.

With all the corresponding Intents, Entities and Utterances.

To test the bot either we can either download the emulator for testing locally or can test online using Web Chat.

Select Test in Web Chat

After we have tested it, next we add channel to our Bot, here we will add Skype.

Below are some of the configuration that can be applied for Skype.

Messaging gives the option of enabling the messaging, Calling let us to enable calling, groups allows us to add the bot to groups and Publish option allows to publish the bot and also submit it for review if it to be used by more than 100 contacts as shown below.

Clicking on Save publishes the bot and we can see the Skype added as one of the channels.

Click on Skype icon to add it to skype.

Add to contacts will add it to Skype and can start our conversation.

Hope it helps..

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Changing the target runtime version of Azure Functions

Azure Functions 2.x runtime is based on .NET Core 2 from .NET Framework 4.7 in 1.x. So, any application migrating from 1.x to 2.x needs to make sure that they are using and referring the compatible code and libraries.

We can also update our Azure Functions to target the appropriate runtime using the below steps à

Inside Azure Portal, select the Function App, click on Application Settings within Platform Features tab.

We can specify the version number for the APP SETTING NAME – FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION

~ tilde à indicates that the latest version of that major version.

Get all the details here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-versions

Hope it helps..

Publish as Azure Web Job Option missing in Visual Studio 2017

While trying to publish one of our console application to Azure as Web Job we couldn’t find the “Publish as Azure WebJob..” option

It was because Azure development tools were recently uninstalled from the system.

To install it, go to Windows à Program and Features à Select Visual Studio 2017 and click on Modify.

And select Azure Development for installation

Select Azure Cloud Services tool.

After installation it will ask for restart.

After restart we’d see the option added in our Visual Studio.

Hope it helps.

You are not authorized or do not have any subscriptions associated error while trying to access Kudo Sites in Azure

Today for one of our Azure WebJobs when we tried checking its log, we got the below error à

Seemed strange as being the Contributer of that Resource Group, I had access to all other functionality within that resource group.

After much struggle, in one of threads there was a suggestion to try in a different browser or in private browsing mode. And luckily that worked.

Out of all responses, this one makes the most sense for this issue

https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-ux/issues/2244

Hope it helps..

Stop an Azure Web Job using WEBJOBS_STOPPED and WEBJOBS_DISABLE_SCHEDULE configuration settings

We had one triggered web job running every 5 minutes that would pull the data from SQL On Prem DB and create lead records in CRM.

During testing we wanted to stop the running web job.

To do go to Application Settings for the App Service. Add WEBJOB_STOPPED and WEBJOBS_DISABLE_SCHEDULE setting with value 1.


We’d see our web job stop running.



Another option is to kill the process itself

Open à

https://[appname].scm.azurewebsites.net/ProcessExplorer


Get all the details here


https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/WebJobs

Hope it helps..


Update Schedule of existing Azure WebJobs (triggered)

Suppose we have following WebJob deployed in Azure of type Triggered.

And now we want to update its schedule.

To do so,

Open the App Service Editor

Update the CRON expression in settings.job (in case of scheduled web job), if the file is not there we can create and add it.

This makes the Webjob to run every 1 minute.

Back in our Webjob we can see the schedule updated.

Inside the logs à

More details –

https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/WebJobs#scheduling-a-triggered-webjob

Hope it helps..

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