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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams - Second Edition

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a permanent fixture in the modern workplace, but many of its productivity-boosting features go unnoticed or unused. Hands-On Microsoft Teams shows you how to use Teams to its full potential through easy-to-follow practical tutorials. This guide to mastering Teams explores the platform in comprehensive detail and how it interacts with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem to help you work efficiently and manage your resources. You'll get to grips with core functionality like setting up and managing teams, channels, chats, tabs, and meetings. You'll also learn to get the best out of Teams by adding custom apps, integrating with Microsoft 365, using PowerShell automation, and exploring useful settings you didn't know existed. Along the way, you'll be shown various real-world scenarios and how to implement solutions for them in Teams that will increase your productivity. Whether you're an administrator, manager, or team member, by the end of this book you'll be confident in using everything Microsoft Teams has to offer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Building an app using the Developer Portal

Building your first app using the Developer Portal is an easy task. All you have to do is get the links to the applications or to the sites that you want to embed into Microsoft Teams and follow the instructions described in this section.

The Developer Portal can be used to build eight types of apps (personal apps, group and channel apps, bots, connectors, messaging extensions, meeting extensions, Together mode scenes, and activity feed notifications) but the only ones that can be built without writing code and that are accessible to all citizen developers are personal apps and Together mode scenes, which are the focus of this chapter.

For more information on developing advanced Teams applications, you can find helpful references and documentation including example code, APIs, and HowTos at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/.

Let's now look at a scenario to understand how to use the Developer...