Automating the integration of Power Apps inside Teams

When a custom application gets deployed to the Apps section in Microsoft Teams, it becomes available to the whole platform. You can use them in channels, chats and even as a standalone application inside the Teams interface by pinning them to the main toolbar.

These methods allow you to configure Teams to match your needs. However, you might need to build an application for your entire organization that is quickly available for all users in the main toolbar without asking each user to pin it manually.

Using the Microsoft Teams admin portal, we can achieve this deployment requirement. We will also learn how to automate a team deployment with a power app included.

Getting ready

The resources needed to build this recipe are available on our GitHub repository located at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-Apps-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter07

To manage the Microsoft Teams admin portal, the user requires the...