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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 Power Apps

Power Apps is a platform that empowers everyone to build business applications without writing code. With a simple and intuitive layout, it allows every user to build more and to achieve more. Microsoft Teams wants to embrace the power of apps created by users and allows you to use them on the platform. This way, we can say that every Power Apps app is also a Teams app.

This section of the book does not cover the creation of an app; it only shows you how you can integrate an existing app into Microsoft Teams.

Let's now take a look at a scenario to understand this better:

Power Apps scenario: Adele, the event manager

Adele is responsible for all the events at the company and has a budget to manage during the year. To help her with all the events and with the visualization of how much is being spent on each one, Adele has created a Power Apps app based on the data she already has from all the events...