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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

Integrating SharePoint and Microsoft Teams using the Developer Portal

As we have seen, building personal apps using Microsoft Teams is a really simple process, but if you want to build your own app using SharePoint there are a few things that you will have to take care of.

If you create the app using SharePoint pages just using the URL you copied from the browser, you will end up with an app that will only work on the web version of Microsoft Teams. On the desktop and mobile clients, the user will end up on a blank page without the option to sign in to SharePoint.

To overcome this limitation, it is necessary to use a hidden authentication page hosted in SharePoint. Follow these steps to create an app in the Developer Portal from a SharePoint page:

  1. Open the Microsoft Teams Developer Portal by visiting the following URL: https://dev.teams.microsoft.com/tools.
  2. Repeat the steps explained in the previous section to create a new tab in your application.
  3. When...