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Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By : Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles
Book Image

Expert Microsoft Teams Solutions

By: Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Grant Oliasani, Angel Aviles

Overview of this book

Microsoft Teams is an invaluable tool that can integrate various Microsoft products into a single convenient hub. But making the most of it often requires expert help and hours spent on calls and live chats. If you’d rather have all the information you need to make the most of Teams in one place, then this book is for you. Written by two Microsoft technical specialists who have spent years helping clients find the best way to utilize Teams, this book will help you understand Teams as a whole — from architecture and collaboration through to apps and voice. You’ll study the platform from the perspective of the end user as well as the administrator, gaining insights and learning from real-life examples. You’ll tackle adopting, implementing, and administering Teams efficiently, which will help you realize its full potential. From setup and deployment to modernizing your organization’s chat and voice infrastructure, you’ll get plenty of useful and actionable tips as you progress. By the end of your journey through this book, you’ll be able to design and implement the most important and exciting aspects of Microsoft Teams help your organization work more efficiently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1: Collaboration and Apps
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2
Chapter 1: Taking a Tour of Microsoft Teams
6
Part 2: Meetings
10
Part 3: Bots and Development
14
Part 4: Voice
19
Part 5: Administration

Chapter 8: Power Apps in Teams

With many organizations shifting to remote or hybrid workforces, millions of users are spending more time on Microsoft Teams than ever. For many, Teams is a collaboration tool: chat, meetings, file collaboration, and task management. As we've alluded to already, Teams is also a platform. It can be used as the launchpad for a variety of third-party and custom apps, tools, and integrations. To get the most out of the Teams platform, both citizens and pro-developers alike can build and integrate their own apps with Microsoft Power Platform—a suite of low-code and no-code tools.

Power Apps, a component of Power Platform, is a low-code app development tool that integrates directly into Microsoft Teams. Apps can be embedded as tabs to channels that your team already uses, deployed as personal apps to users on their Teams rail, or even built from the ground up inside of Teams using Microsoft Dataverse.

This chapter will cover the following...