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This tutorial describes concepts for virtual visit applications. After completing this tutorial and the associated [Sample Builder](https://aka.ms/acs-sample-builder), you will understand common use cases that a virtual appointments application delivers, the Microsoft technologies that can help you build those uses cases, and have built a sample application integrating Microsoft 365 and Azure that you can use to demo and explore further.
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This tutorial describes concepts for virtual appointment applications. After completing this tutorial and the associated [Sample Builder](https://aka.ms/acs-sample-builder), you will understand common use cases that a virtual appointments application delivers, the Microsoft technologies that can help you build those uses cases, and have built a sample application integrating Microsoft 365 and Azure that you can use to demo and explore further.
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Virtual appointments are a communication pattern where a **consumer** and a **business** assemble for a scheduled appointment. The **organizational boundary** between consumer and business, and **scheduled** nature of the interaction, are key attributes of most virtual appointments. Many industries operate virtual appointments: meetings with a healthcare provider, a loan officer, or a product support technician.
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No matter the industry, there are at least three personas involved in a virtual visit and certain tasks they accomplish:
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No matter the industry, there are at least three personas involved in a virtual appointment and certain tasks they accomplish:
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-**Office Manager.** The office manager configures the business’ availability and booking rules for providers and consumers.
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-**Provider.** The provider gets on the call with the consumer. They must be able to view upcoming virtual appointments and join the virtual visit and engage in communication.
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-**Consumer**. The consumer who schedules and motivates the visit. They must schedule a visit, enjoy reminders of the visit, typically through SMS or email, and join the virtual visit and engage in communication.
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-**Provider.** The provider gets on the call with the consumer. They must be able to view upcoming virtual appointments and join the virtual appointment and engage in communication.
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-**Consumer**. The consumer who schedules and motivates the visit. They must schedule a visit, enjoy reminders of the visit, typically through SMS or email, and join the virtual appointment and engage in communication.
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Azure and Teams are interoperable. This interoperability gives organizations choice in how they deliver virtual appointments using Microsoft's cloud. Three examples include:
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-**Microsoft 365** provides a zero-code suite for virtual appointments using Microsoft [Teams](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software/) and [Bookings](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/business/scheduling-and-booking-app). This is the easiest option but customization is limited. [Check out this video for an introduction.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfGrwW2lEw)
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-**Microsoft 365 + Azure hybrid.** Combine Microsoft 365 Teams and Bookings with a custom Azure application for the consumer experience. Organizations take advantage of Microsoft 365's employee familiarity but customize and embed the consumer visit experience in their own application.
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-**Azure custom.** Build the entire solution on Azure primitives: the business experience, the consumer experience, and scheduling systems.
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These three **implementation options** are columns in the table below, while each row provides a **use case** and the **enabling technologies**.
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There are other ways to customize and combine Microsoft tools to deliver a virtual appointments experience:
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-**Replace Bookings with a custom scheduling experience with Graph.** You can build your own consumer-facing scheduling experience that controls Microsoft 365 meetings with Graph APIs.
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-**Replace Teams’ provider experience with Azure.** You can still use Microsoft 365 and Bookings to manage meetings but have the business user launch a custom Azure application to join the Teams meeting. This might be useful where you want to split or customize virtual visit interactions from day-to-day employee Teams activity.
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-**Replace Teams’ provider experience with Azure.** You can still use Microsoft 365 and Bookings to manage meetings but have the business user launch a custom Azure application to join the Teams meeting. This might be useful where you want to split or customize virtual appointment interactions from day-to-day employee Teams activity.
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## Extend Microsoft 365 with Azure
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The rest of this tutorial focuses on Microsoft 365 and Azure hybrid solutions. These hybrid configurations are popular because they combine employee familiarity of Microsoft 365 with the ability to customize the consumer experience. They’re also a good launching point to understanding more complex and customized architectures. The diagram below shows user steps for a virtual visit:
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The rest of this tutorial focuses on Microsoft 365 and Azure hybrid solutions. These hybrid configurations are popular because they combine employee familiarity of Microsoft 365 with the ability to customize the consumer experience. They’re also a good launching point to understanding more complex and customized architectures. The diagram below shows user steps for a virtual appointment:
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1. Consumer schedules the visit using Microsoft 365 Bookings.
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4. Consumer uses a link from the Bookings reminders to launch the Contoso consumer app and join the underlying Teams meeting.
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5. The users communicate with each other using voice, video, and text chat in a meeting.
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## Building a virtual visit sample
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## Building a virtual appointment sample
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In this section we’re going to use a Sample Builder tool to deploy a Microsoft 365 + Azure hybrid virtual appointments application to an Azure subscription. This application will be a desktop and mobile friendly browser experience, with code that you can use to explore and productionize.
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### Step 1 - Configure bookings
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Enter the application url followed by "/visit" in the "Deployed App URL" field in https://outlook.office.com/bookings/businessinformation.
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## Going to production
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The Sample Builder gives you the basics of a Microsoft 365 and Azure virtual visit: consumer scheduling via Bookings, consumer joins via custom app, and the provider joins via Teams. However, there are several things to consider as you take this scenario to production.
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The Sample Builder gives you the basics of a Microsoft 365 and Azure virtual appointment: consumer scheduling via Bookings, consumer joins via custom app, and the provider joins via Teams. However, there are several things to consider as you take this scenario to production.
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### Launching patterns
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Consumers want to jump directly to the virtual visit from the scheduling reminders they receive from Bookings. In Bookings, you can provide a URL prefix that will be used in reminders. If your prefix is `https://<YOUR URL>/VISIT`, Bookings will point users to `https://<YOUR URL>/VISIT?MEETINGURL=<MEETING URL>.`
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Consumers want to jump directly to the virtual appointment from the scheduling reminders they receive from Bookings. In Bookings, you can provide a URL prefix that will be used in reminders. If your prefix is `https://<YOUR URL>/VISIT`, Bookings will point users to `https://<YOUR URL>/VISIT?MEETINGURL=<MEETING URL>.`
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### Integrate into your existing app
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The app service generated by the Sample Builder is a stand-alone artifact, designed for desktop and mobile browsers. However you may have a website or mobile application already and need to migrate these experiences to that existing codebase. The code generated by the Sample Builder should help, but you can also use:
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