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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Various authentication options

Microsoft Teams is built on Microsoft 365 and leverages the authentication provided by the Microsoft 365 tenant, which could be Cloud Identity, Synchronized Identity, or Federated Identity, based on how the Microsoft 365 tenant is configured.

All three authentication models listed below authenticate Microsoft Teams, as Microsoft Teams supports SSO. This avoids the user being asked to log in multiple times. However, the crux of this chapter is the supporting mechanism of the Teams tab app created by developers to support authentication with SSO.

Here are the various authentication options:

Cloud Identity: This is suitable for organizations with no on-premises Active Directory. Here, user identities are maintained with Azure Active Directory, so users are authenticated by Azure AD. You create user accounts in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Synchronization Identity: With this authentication, users use the same username and password as...