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Monitor the Health of Your Milestone VMS From Microsoft Teams

BoringBot brings the robust capabilities of The Boring Toolbox into Microsoft Teams, enabling you to receive camera health notifications, scheduled reports, and request real time status updates directly from Milestone XProtect.

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Collaborate More Easily. Resolve Issues Faster.

BoringBot helps you streamline your remediation process by centralizing your VMS health notifications and reports in one place – Teams.

BoringBot helps you streamline your remediation process by centralizing your VMS health notifications and reports in one place – Teams.

Get Camera Health Alerts In Teams

Learn about issues that may jeopardize your video without leaving the app.

Teamwork Makes The Cameras Work

Easily delegate tasks, track who’s working on what, and escalate when needed.

Query VMS Status On-Demand

Use commands to get real-time updates on your camera and your recording servers.

Use BoringBot With Other Integrations

Quickly take actions in other integrations to streamline your workflow.

See Example Workflow

Get Real-Time Camera Notifications

Get alerts about issues with your VMS that may jeopardize your video so you always know when:

  • a camera stops providing video
  • video is restored

Request System Status Updates On-Demand

Request the status of specific recording servers and cameras using @BoringBot commands

list-servers
Lists Boring Servers connected to BoringBot

camera-status
Request the status of a specific camera

vms-status
Request the status of your XProtect Servers

Receive XProtect Inventory & Compliance Reports in Teams!

Simplify audits, enhance collaboration, and improve your workflows with ad hoc and scheduled reports.

  • Streamline compliance audits
  • Share information more easily
  • Keep track of your assets and devices
  • Stay ahead of maintenance and upgrades
  • Quickly identify problematic devices
  • Inform future planning and budgeting decisions

Integrate with your favorite tools

Use BoringBot with your other Teams integrations to create seamless workflows

Sharepoint

OneNote

Outlook

Zendesk

Hubspot

Jira

Monday.com

Asana

Trello

Zoom

Getting Started with BoringBot

Add BoringBot to your Teams tenant

Generate a token

Invite BoringBot to your selected channel

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Customizable Alerts

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Bulk Operations

Simplified Reporting

Customizable Alerts

Live Monitoring Dashboards

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