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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)

Understanding Microsoft Teams App Studio

There are thousands of applications outside of the Microsoft ecosystem that are used by organizations in their day-to-day tasks; however, most of them don’t have an integration with Microsoft Teams, which forces you to use them in a standalone mode.

Microsoft is well aware of this and wants to empower you to build/bring your business applications and scenarios to the Microsoft Teams context. To help with this, Teams has built App Studio.

Microsoft Teams App Studio is an app built by Microsoft to develop apps easily and quickly. Using this app, you will be able to create your own personal apps and tabs and you will also get access to some of the documentation about the design language of Microsoft Teams apps.

This simple app can be used by any citizen developer to build their own app in a matter of a few clicks. Now that we have understood the basics of what App Studio is, we will learn about its different features and get familiar...