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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
Free Chapter
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

Adding an existing app to Teams

Once again, Power Apps is a low-code development tool that allows for the rapid creation of custom apps that support your business needs. These apps can exist and run in a variety of locations, such as a browser, mobile phone, SharePoint sites, and inside of Teams. Adding apps to channels makes it easy for team members to interact with the app within the same collaboration platform they are already using. For example, an HR team in charge of hiring might use an app to manage candidate interview feedback for open positions in their organization.

If you are already familiar with building Power Apps apps and have existing apps, feel free to skip to the Embedding app as a tab section to see how we bring it into Teams. In the interest of time, we will be creating a sample app using the Interview Tool template. After creating the app, we will learn how to add this app to a Teams channel as a tab and how to install it for personal use.

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