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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)

Blocking Microsoft Teams apps

So far, we have seen how you can enable and disable the usage of Microsoft custom apps, but restricting the usage of these apps might be prejudiced against the adoption of the platform. A Microsoft Teams administrator always has the possibility to block custom apps or even apps installed from the store.

If you want to restrict the usage of apps on your tenant after being installed, do the following:

  1. Start by opening the Microsoft Teams admin center at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com.
  2. On the vertical menu, expand Teams apps and then click on Manage apps.
  3. Click on the Org-wide app settings button:

    Figure 7.12: Org-wide settings

  4. Scroll down on the side menu to the Blocked apps section.
  5. Search the app you want to block by name as highlighted in the following screenshot. This search will retrieve not just the custom apps installed by you and other users, but also apps in the store that are available for you to install. Once an...