Microsoft Teams Authentication

In this chapter, you will learn about various authentication options available to developers for creating custom Microsoft Teams tabs. This chapter primarily focuses on the following topics:

• Authentication and authorization in Microsoft Teams apps
• Single sign-on (SSO) in Microsoft Teams tabs

Authentication and authorization are vital processes that are used in protecting data. Authentication verifies the user or service, and authorization verifies whether the user or service has appropriate permissions to access the resources or data.

So, both authentication and authorization are essential to keep data secure.

SSO is an authentication method that uses the Teams user’s identity and provides access to the app. The idea is that the user who logs into Microsoft Teams doesn’t need to log in again to use the app running in the Teams environment.

In this chapter, we’ll look at implementing SSO with authentication...