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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)

Extending Microsoft Teams using PowerApps

Power Apps is a platform that empowers everyone to build business applications without writing code. With a simple and intuitive layout, it empowers every user to build more to achieve more. Microsoft Teams wants to embrace the power of apps created by users and allows you to use them on the platform. This way, we can say that every Power App is also a Teams app.

Note:

This section of the book does not cover the creation of an app; it only shows how you can integrate an existent app into Microsoft Teams.

Let's now take a look at a scenario to understand this better.

Case study: Adele, the event manager

Adele is responsible for all the events at the company and has a budget to manage during the year. To help her with all the events and with the visualization of how much is being spent on each one, Adele has created a PowerApp based on the data she already had.

Now that the app is working, Adele wants to share it with...