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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By : João Ferreira
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Hands-On Microsoft Teams

By: João Ferreira

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is a platform for unified communication in modern workplaces. It not only enables effective communication, but also helps you manage your resources through its integration with various Microsoft Office 365 services. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the platform, getting you up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to use Teams in the best possible way. Starting with the basic concepts that will help you collaborate on Teams, this book takes you through expert techniques for creating and managing teams. A dedicated section also features industry practices to help enhance collaboration in modern workplaces. In later chapters, you’ll explore Microsoft services such as SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, and learn how they interact with Microsoft Teams. You’ll also get to grips with dealing with permissions and security issues in managing private and public teams and channels. Along the way, you’ll discover practical scenarios that will help you improve the collaboration in your organization and increase productivity by using Teams features. By the end of this book, you’ll have hands-on experience of using Microsoft Teams, along with the skills you need to improve the way people collaborate in your organization.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 7: Extend Microsoft Teams Using Custom Apps and Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams can be extended using apps from app store as we have seen in the previous chapter but it can be also extended with custom apps built for your business specifically. In this section 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, in this chapter you will learn how to integrate these three platforms with Microsoft Teams.

In the following pages, you will find information about these main topics:

  • Working with custom apps
  • Installing custom apps
  • Blocking Microsoft Teams apps
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using SharePoint
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using PowerAutomate
  • Extending Microsoft Teams using PowerApps