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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

Understanding the Microsoft Teams Developer Portal

There are thousands of applications outside of the Microsoft ecosystem that are used by organizations in their day-to-day tasks; however, most of them don't have integration with Microsoft Teams, which forces you to use them in a standalone manner.

Microsoft is well aware of this and wants to empower you to bring your business applications and scenarios to the Microsoft Teams context. To help with this, Microsoft has built the Teams Developer Portal.

The Microsoft Teams Developer Portal is a web application built by Microsoft that allows you to develop apps easily and quickly. Using this app, you will be able to create your own personal apps and tabs and you will also get access to some of the documentation about the design language used by Microsoft Teams apps.

This simple web application can be used by any citizen developer to build their own app in a matter of a few clicks. Now that we have understood what the...