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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)

Installing custom apps

Now that you know how to enable custom apps and how to give permissions to the right users to install them, it is time to learn how the installation process works.

Note:

The process described in this section uses a prebuilt custom app from Microsoft to install Microsoft Learning Pathways on Microsoft Teams. To learn more about this solution, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/customlearning/. If you want to know more about how to build custom apps for Microsoft Teams, have a look at Chapter 8, Build Your Own App for Microsoft Teams Using App Studio.

If you are a user with permissions to upload custom apps, do the following:

  1. Open Microsoft Teams and click on Apps.
  2. At the bottom of the window, click on Upload a custom app.
  3. On the menu, choose whether you want to install it globally for all the users in the tenant or just for you and your teams:

    Figure 7.7: Uploading a custom app

  4. Upload the ZIP file containing the app and...