BOT Using MS Bot Framework in Internal On-Premise Environment

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Can someone please clarify if we can create and run a BOT Service using the Microsoft BOT Framework on a completely Non-Azure/Non-Cloud/Non-Azurestack purely ON-Premise traditional Private environment ( that sits behind a very strict corporate proxy with no access to Azure/AWS/Internet at runtime ) using a Internal On-Prem Skype For Business channel ? If so ... is there a link that I can use to achieve the same ( deploy to IIS? ) .

I looked at this thread : Bot Framework without Azure possible?

That appears to still require an internet connection and register the bot on MS site. If that is a one time activity thats ok but will my BOT Service require a connection to that registration to keep it working ?

So Far I have created a Hello World Bot that works fine using VS2017 and the Bot emulator (Steps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-quickstart ). How ever I would like to deploy this to our internal Skype for Business channel and this is where it is not clear if it can run independently of any Azure/Cloud service.

Thanks much in advance

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2 Answers

There is no full-fledged Microsoft solution to achieve this.

But, you can make few manipulations to get it done. Nevertheless, I would suggest to have a look at ChatterBot. It's exactly what you need.

Note: To access Bot on internet, you will need to expose Local Web Server via DNS.

Steps:

  1. Get LUIS, Azure Bot registered. https://www.luis.ai/home and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/features/azure-portal/

  2. Build Microsoft Bot - Visual Studio. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-quickstart?view=azure-bot-service-3.0

  3. Offline Directline - https://www.npmjs.com/package/offline-directline.

  4. Chat Widget - https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat

Cheers,

Ratnakar.

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