Customizing Microsoft Teams : Build Custom Apps and Extensions for Your Business Using Power Platform and Dataverse in Microsoft Teams / Gopi Kondameda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kondameda, Gopi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual work teams.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, [2023]

Biography/History:

Kondameda Gopi: Gopi Kondameda is a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of experience as a senior cloud solution architect, SharePoint Saturday Speaker, developer, and trainer. He specializes in various Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Teams apps, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 SharePoint. He has extensive experience in building custom business applications using code, low-code, and no-code solutions. Gopi is skilled in managing the Microsoft 365 cloud platform and modernizing solutions. He has excellent communication and collaboration abilities, enabling him to work effectively with business leaders, IT professionals, and end users to identify requirements and design effective solutions. As a senior cloud solution architect, he guides and supports clients in their cloud journey, helping them leverage the cloud to improve scalability, security, and performance.

Summary:

In the evolving remote working arrangement, the demand for custom Microsoft Teams apps is increasing rapidly across businesses. If you are someone who aims to provide users with an exceptional experience through custom-built apps that adhere to industry standards and good governance, Customizing Microsoft Teams is for you! The book starts with an overview of Microsoft Teams customization and configuration prerequisites. It then shows you how to expose functionalities from various solutions through tabs, connectors, messaging extensions, and more before you move on to explore how the PowerShell module can manage multiple aspects of administration and how to use the SharePoint Framework for creating custom Microsoft Teams apps. You'll be able to work with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams to build custom apps, bots, and flows using Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Automate. As you publish your production-ready apps on the Teams store and Microsoft AppSource, you'll also understand Teams app analytics and reporting functionalities. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to develop custom solutions to solve critical business problems and extend the power of Microsoft Teams to develop high-value use cases in the remote working culture.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedications

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Microsoft Teams Customization Exploring the Architecture and Components

Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Teams Apps

Overview of Microsoft Teams as a platform

Exploring the Microsoft Teams app architecture

Classification of apps

Exploring the core services used for the development of Teams

Azure

Microsoft 365

Power Platform

Microsoft Teams admin, configuration, and prerequisites such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform

Org-wide app settings

Permission policies

Creating custom app permission policies

Setup policies

Summary

Chapter 2: Microsoft Teams Apps and Bots

Exploring App Studio/Developer Portal

Creating a Teams app with Developer Portal

Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

The Microsoft Teams JavaScript client SDK

Understanding how to use tabs

Built-in tab

Custom tabs

Utilizing bots

Creating an FAQ bot with QnA Maker

Getting to know more about webhooks and connectors

Webhooks

Connectors

Messaging extensions

Adaptive cards

Part 2: Microsoft Teams Customization with Tools and Techniques

Chapter 3: Microsoft Graph API

What is the Graph API?

Getting started with the Graph API

Version - v1.0 or Beta

Resources - users, groups, sites, drives, devices, and more

Query parameters

Graph Explorer

Authentication and authorization of the Graph API

Registering an application in Azure Active Directory

Setting registered app permissions in Azure AD

Getting Graph API access with the user (delegated permissions)

Getting Graph API access without the user (application permissions)

Consuming the Graph API in PowerShell

Microsoft Teams automation with the Graph API

Team automation cycle.

Best practices with the Graph API

Pagination

Batching

Throttling

Chapter 4: Microsoft Teams PowerShell

Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module

Installing Microsoft TPM

Updating Microsoft TPM

Connecting to Microsoft TPM

CLI for Microsoft 365

Installing CLI for Microsoft 365

Connecting to CLI for Microsoft 365

Adding a new Microsoft team with CLI for Microsoft 365

Chapter 5: Microsoft Teams Customization Using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

SharePoint development history

Setting up an SPFx development environment

Developing your first Teams tab or app using the SPFx

What is the difference between a Teams app and a Teams tab?

Building and running the web part in Workbench

Packaging the solution

Deploying the SPFx package to the App Catalog

Syncing SharePoint web parts to Teams

Sideloading app in Teams

A SharePoint web part as a Teams tab

A SharePoint web part as a Teams personal app

Leveraging the SPFx for Microsoft Teams

ALM with Azure DevOps

Chapter 6: Microsoft Teams Authentication

Various authentication options

Authentication and authorization in Microsoft Teams apps

Authentication using SSO in the Teams app

What is the Teams tab app?

Azure AD app registration

Creating a Teams tab app

Part 3: Microsoft Teams Customization with Low-Code and No-Code

Chapter 7: Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

Introducing Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

Why do we need Microsoft Dataverse for Teams?

Creating a Dataverse for a Teams environment

Power Apps for Teams

Power Automate for Teams

Creating a Power Automate flow

Adding the Power Automate app to your team

Building flows in Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

Power Virtual Agents for Teams

Power Virtual Agent life cycle.

General administration, governance, and security for Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

Manage apps

Power Platform admin center

A Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy for Microsoft Dataverse

Security

Chapter 8: Microsoft Teams App Templates

The catalog

How to sign up for a Developer Tenant with the Microsoft 365 Developer Program

A few app templates

Deploying an App Template

Icebreaker

Deploying the Icebreaker app

Registering the Azure AD application

Deploying a custom template to your Azure subscription

Creating the Teams app package

Uploading and running the app in Microsoft Teams

Extensibility in Microsoft Teams

Customizing an App Package

Customizing the SharePoint site and Power Automate flows

Chapter 9: Microsoft Viva

Implementing Microsoft Viva

The benefits of implementing Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Connections

Implementing Microsoft Viva Connections

Viva Connections Dashboard

Viva Connections app

Pinning the Viva Connections app

Customizing the Viva Connections app

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Viva

Future Microsoft Viva modules

Microsoft Viva Amplify

Microsoft Viva Pulse

Chapter 10: Microsoft Teams Third-Party Apps

Third-party apps on Microsoft Teams

Workday for Teams

Now Virtual Agent, a chatbot from ServiceNow

Integrating ServiceNow with Microsoft Teams

TeamViewer

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Dynamics 365 on Teams

Adding Dynamics 365 app to your team

Entity Selection or View Selection

My Dashboard with the Dynamics 365 app for Microsoft Teams

Reporting and analytics of Teams app usage

How to access the Teams app usage report

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781801076425

1801076421

OCLC:

1373984301