The document discusses Microsoft Teams and provides an overview for developers interested in building apps for the Teams platform. It outlines the key capabilities developers can leverage like tabs, bots, connectors and the Microsoft Graph API. It also provides information on how to get started developing for Teams, including available tools, code samples, and documentation. The presentation encourages developers to start exploring the extensible Teams platform and provides resources to help them build customized apps and solutions.
5. Microsoft Teams
Communicate
through chat, meetings & calls
Collaborate
with deeply integrated Office 365 apps
Customize& extend
with 3rd party apps, processes, and devices
Work with confidence
enterprise level security, compliance,
and manageability
7. HUB EXPERIENCE Enable your teams to make decisions and
take action faster
Reduce context switching on important tasks
Create opportunities for collaboration
around external content
8. Teams is the fastest growing business app in Microsoft history
329k
Organizations are
using Teams
181
Teams users span
181 markets
across the globe
44
Teams is available
in 44 languages
70%
of Skype for Business
enterprise customers
are using Teams
60+
60 customers with
10,000+ monthly
active users
10K
11. How to create a Teams App
Develop components
HTML
TypeScript / JavaScript
.NET
Integrate with Teams
Microsoft Teams JavaScript Library
Bot Builder SDK - Node.js & C#
Package and deploy
Host web pages and services
Create and package manifest
Upload/publish package
66. Resources Start exploring
Teams App Studio Node.js
c#/.NET
capabilities of the Teams extensible
platform
Microsoft Graph API
Teamwork
Calling/Online Meetings
Start today!
Get started developing
Teams Developer Documentation
Teams Sample Code
Leverage Teams DnA experts
68. • Thomas Gölles
• Microsoft MVP (O365)
• SOLVION
https://thomy.tech
@thomyg
Head of Modern Workplace Solutions
Graz, Austria
• Stephan Bisser
• Microsoft MVP (AI)
• SOLVION
https://www.cloudguy.pro
@cloudguy_pro
#AskCloudguy
Graz, Austria
http://bit.ly/LEARN_TO_BOT
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An app in Teams consists one or more of the following capabilities:
Tabs – allow you to display rich interactive web content
Bots - connect intelligent bots to interact with Microsoft Teams users naturally through chat and/or programable voice
Connectors - push your app's rich content into Microsoft Teams
Messaging extensions - query for information from your service and post that information right into the channel conversation
Activity feed integrations - the user's single inbox for all activity across Teams.
With recent updates to MS Graph, you can now enhance Calls and online Meetings scenarios with bots and access your O365 data in the Microsoft Cloud.
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Using the MS Teams developer platform, you can create two classes of apps:
- Apps that any organization using Office 365 can access via the Teams Store.
- Apps that you publish to your tenant’s Teams App Catalog that’s only available to your organization. These are also known as line-of-business apps (LoB)
The key concepts and guidance for developers are applicable to both classes of apps
Tabs – Bring your own Service to the MS Teams canvas
Using light-weight Javascript APIs to tie your SaaS experience to Teams context
Let’s add a tab
Adding the Contoso App to a Teams channel
Teams Scope - your experience exists in the team context - Teams Tabs (“Configurable”) – added and customized on a per-channel basis
Contoso Tab available for the Northwind Traders team, in the Development channel
MS Teams is a collaboration platform – you can invoke the chat canvas to collaborate with your team from within the Tab
Channel members will get notified about a Tab conversation that has begun, and they can join the conversation right there, or click the title to be taken directly to the Tab conversation.
Personal Scope – your experience exists in an individual user context - Personal Tabs (“Static”) – available to end users via the App bar or alongside 1:1 bots
Bots – Build using the Bot Framework to bring intelligent into your app and service
Use the .NET and Node.js SDKs, or call the REST endpoints let team users interact with your bot
Bots are available in a 1:1 chat (personal scope) where you can interact with your Bot using natural language chat, to complete a task
And now, with the introduction of MS Graph Calling and online Meeting APIs, we added more bot capabilities:
Basic Call functions- Receive a call
- Answer a call
- Transfer a call
- Hangup a call
Online Meeting
- Add/remove/Mute participants
- Join ad-hoc meeting
IVR Scenarios
- Play a prompt
- Detect DTMF
And of course, you can engage a bot in a team scope, to share with all your channel members
Again, as part of the collaborative nature of Teams, team members can reply directly on a bot chat discussion as you can see here
The activity feed in Microsoft Teams is the user's single inbox for all activity across Teams. The feed aggregates important content from the following:
Teams/channels
Chats
Apps
Activity feed notification leverages your existing integration with the Bot Framework APIs.
You can flag specific messages to generate notifications which appear in the activity feed to create a higher level of engagement for your users
Office 365 Connectors are a great way to push your app's rich content into Microsoft Teams.
With Microsoft Teams apps, you can add your existing Office 365 Connector or build a new one to include in Microsoft Teams.
Adding a connector is simple. Click on Channel more options, to add a connector
Apps installed for your team that have the Connector capability will show here. Click Set up to configure the Connector for your channel.
A customizable card that can contain any combination of text, speech, images, buttons, and input fields.
Cards are supported by bots and messaging extensions in Teams as well as by O365 Connectors.
Cards can be updated in real-time to show dynamic data
Messaging extensions are a powerful new way for users to engage with your app within Microsoft Teams. With this capability, users can query for information from your service and post that information, in the form of cards, right into the channel conversation
Last but not least, your app can integrate with the Command Box
Wherever you go in Teams, the command box is there at the top of the screen.
Users can quickly send commands to any of their installed apps right from the box, enabling them to query and pull content from your app without stepping away from what they're doing.