How to send notifications to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform from Microsoft and part of the Microsoft 365 offering. As with Slack, it allows teams to collaborate in channels or via direct messages with other individuals.

As we saw in the previous section, automation provides a Send Microsoft Teams message action that allows us to send messages to a Microsoft Teams channel.

In this section, we will learn how to integrate with Microsoft Teams to send notifications to channels using automation rules.

Integrating with Microsoft Teams

The first thing we need to do before we can use Microsoft Teams in automation rules is to set up an incoming webhook so that our rule can send messages to a channel in Teams.

In Microsoft Teams, we need to add the Incoming Webhook connector to our team before we can send messages to a channel from an automation rule.

Let's look at how we can configure a team and channel in Microsoft Teams using the Incoming...