You're reading from Customizing Microsoft Teams Build custom apps and extensions for your business using Power Platform and Dataverse in Microsoft Teams

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075381

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Gopi Kondameda

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Microsoft Teams Customization Exploring the Architecture and Components

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Teams Apps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Microsoft Teams Apps and Bots

4. Part 2: Microsoft Teams Customization with Tools and Techniques

5. Chapter 3: Microsoft Graph API

6. Chapter 4: Microsoft Teams PowerShell

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

8. Chapter 6: Microsoft Teams Authentication

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

10. Chapter 7: Microsoft Dataverse for Teams

11. Chapter 8: Microsoft Teams App Templates

12. Chapter 9: Microsoft Viva

13. Chapter 10: Microsoft Teams Third-Party Apps

14. Index

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Authentication and authorization in Microsoft Teams apps

Custom apps you built and deployed in Teams may consume numerous Microsoft 365 services within your tenant or external services such as DocuSign, Twitter, and so on. For example, it could be Azure AD, the Graph API, a REST API, and so on, of the tenant where the app is installed. All these services require authentication and authorization to access the required data in the custom app from these services. Therefore, you should choose the appropriate authentication methods suitable for your needs.

There are two authentication methods used in the Teams app:

Authentication using SSO in the Teams app: With this approach, the Teams app uses the identity of the user who logged into Teams. And since it requires consent from the app user, it doesn’t prompt the user to log in multiple times.
Authentication using a third-party OAuth provider in the Teams app: With this approach, the Teams app uses an OAuth provider...