Chapter 5

Extending Teams with Apps, Bots, and Connectors

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering apps in Teams

Bullet Finding connectors to your favorite services

Bullet Installing and using popular apps

Bullet Exploring the Power Platform apps

Bullet Getting chatty with your favorite bot

The world today is more interconnected than at any other time in human history. On the Internet, these connections take the form of software applications communicating with each other. Microsoft Teams embraces integration with all types of software in the form of add-on apps, bots, and connectors. Apps come in many flavors. You can find apps for personal use, for adding tabs and bots to your channels, for adding connections to other software services, and for enhancing your messaging experiences.

In this chapter, you discover how to find, install, and use apps in Teams. You learn about the apps created for Microsoft Office such as SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Planner, and OneNote and how they integrate with Teams. You also find ...

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