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Customizing Microsoft Teams

By : Gopi Kondameda
Book Image

Customizing Microsoft Teams

By: Gopi Kondameda

Overview of this book

In the evolving remote working arrangement, the demand for custom Microsoft Teams apps is increasing rapidly across businesses. If you are someone who aims to provide users with an exceptional experience through custom-built apps that adhere to industry standards and good governance, Customizing Microsoft Teams is for you! The book starts with an overview of Microsoft Teams customization and configuration prerequisites. It then shows you how to expose functionalities from various solutions through tabs, connectors, messaging extensions, and more before you move on to explore how the PowerShell module can manage multiple aspects of administration and how to use the SharePoint Framework for creating custom Microsoft Teams apps. You’ll be able to work with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams to build custom apps, bots, and flows using Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Automate. As you publish your production-ready apps on the Teams store and Microsoft AppSource, you’ll also understand Teams app analytics and reporting functionalities. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to develop custom solutions to solve critical business problems and extend the power of Microsoft Teams to develop high-value use cases in the remote working culture.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Microsoft Teams Customization Exploring the Architecture and Components
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Part 2: Microsoft Teams Customization with Tools and Techniques
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Part 3: Microsoft Teams Customization with Low-Code and No-Code

Creating a Teams app with Developer Portal

As shown in Figure 2.3, you can click on + New app to create a Hello World app and review all the configuration pages in the Developer Portal Teams app.

Figure 2.4 – First “Hello World” Teams app created through Developer Portal

Figure 2.4 – First “Hello World” Teams app created through Developer Portal

On the left side of the preceding figure, you have options to configure the Teams app. In the next sections, we will review these configurations and options for configuring the “Hello World” Teams app.

Overview

On the Overview page, as shown in Figure 2.5, you have a few sections, such as Teams store validation, which validates your app against the Microsoft Teams test cases; the other section is Active Users (Preview), where you can see your app’s total number of users.

Figure 2.5 – Overview page of the app

Figure 2.5 – Overview page of the app

Owners

Each app has an Owners area for sharing the app with other members; you can also share...