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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)

Building an app using App Studio

Building your first app using App Studio is an easy task. All you have to do is get the links to the applications or to the sites that you want to embed into Microsoft Teams and follow the instructions described in this section.

Note

App Studio can be used to build all five types of apps (personal apps, bots, tabs, connectors, messaging)but the only ones that can be built without writing code and that are accessible to all citizen developers are personal apps, which are the focus of this section.

Let's now look at a scenario to understand how to use the App Studio better:

John the surfer

John loves to surf and recently opened his own surfing school. John and the other teachers need to regularly check the conditions of the sea before the classes.John’s license allows him to teach on five different beaches, but visiting each one of them daily takes a lot of time. Luckily, those beaches are monitored 24/7 and live streamed on...