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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

Creating approvals

By default, the Approvals app is available for all the users in your environment (we'll discuss turning it off toward the end of this chapter). To launch the app, you can expand the More added apps ellipsis on the left rail and select the Approvals app, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.1 – Launching the Approvals app from the desktop client

There may be a slight delay the first time you launch the Approvals app as it will take a few moments to provision the Microsoft Dataverse configuration. The experience is the same, regardless of whether you use the Teams desktop app or the Teams web app.

Once everything has been provisioned, you can begin working with approvals.

An approval has several parts, terms, and options that you should understand before you begin. These are as follows:

  • Request Type: Currently, there are two types of requests. A basic request is one that only uses native Microsoft...