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Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

You're reading from   Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents A practical guide to building intelligent chatbots with Microsoft Power Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074742
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Power Virtual Agents FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Licensing for Power Virtual Agents 4. Chapter 3: Building Your First Power Virtual Agent Chatbot 5. Section 2: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents on Your Website
6. Chapter 4: Creating a Power Virtual Agent for Your Website 7. Chapter 5: Integrating a Power Virtual Agent into Your Website 8. Chapter 6: Handling Authentication and Personalization 9. Section 3: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents in Teams
10. Chapter 7: Building a Power Virtual Agents Application for Teams 11. Chapter 8: Integrating the Power Virtual Agent into Teams 12. Chapter 9: Serving Information from Various Sources 13. Section 4: Best Practices for Power Virtual Agents
14. Chapter 10: Power Virtual Agents Governance 15. Chapter 11: Power Virtual Agents Best Practices 16. Chapter 12: Power Virtual Agents Administration 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6: Handling Authentication and Personalization

So far, we have looked at what Power Virtual Agents (PVA) is, the basics of how to license the service, how to build a basic bot with no code, the handling of some more complex scenarios, as well as integrating a bot into your current website. But all the examples we've looked at so far only targeted anonymous users, and no personalized information was provided. We are about to change that in this chapter.

In this chapter, we want to see how to recognize the user we are interacting with and provide a truly personalized experience. We will be looking at the following topics:

  • Providing generalized information to users
  • Providing a personalized experience to users
  • Authentication considerations
  • Leveraging various data sources

Along the way, we will learn how to configure standard authentication leveraging Azure AD, as well as how to get some basic user information by using Microsoft Graph.

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