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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Getting to know more about webhooks and connectors

The key role of webhooks and connectors is to integrate external services with channels and teams.

Webhooks are custom-built HTTP callbacks that can notify users about any actions in a Teams channel or, with an HTTPS endpoint, insert messages into a Teams channel.

Connectors allow channels to set up subscriptions to receive messages. We will explore more about them in the following sub-sections.

Webhooks

Webhooks in Microsoft Teams enable integration with external apps and web services. There are two types of webhooks available: outgoing and incoming.

Outgoing webhooks enable sending text messages from a Teams channel to external web services. This can be useful for passing alerts or notifications from company systems to relevant Teams channels.

On the other hand, incoming webhooks enable sending messages from external apps to Teams. This is done by exposing an HTTPS endpoint and inserting formatted JSON into the...