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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

Extending Microsoft Teams Using Custom Apps and Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams can be extended using apps from the Teams app store, as we have seen in the previous chapter, but it can also be extended with custom apps built for your business specifically. In this chapter of the book, you will learn how custom apps can be enabled on your tenant and how you can use other tools from the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to extend the default functionalities.

If you are using SharePoint, Power Apps, or Power Automate, you will also learn how to integrate these three platforms with Microsoft Teams.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Working with custom apps
  • Installing custom apps
  • Blocking Microsoft Teams apps
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using SharePoint
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using Power Automate
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using Power Apps