Teams now sports a Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Teams extension to streamline the app publishing process. There are several Power integrations as well, spanning Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, and Power BI.
Microsoft Teams Graph also gets an uplift with new APIs for Teams, Shifts, and in-app notifications. Don’t miss the:
1. New low code bots 2. App Studio V1.4.0
IT admins gain smarter controls for app management
At Build 2020, Microsoft announced several updates specially geared for Teams administrators. The app management experience is dramatically improved, and there are new controls for app discoverability. The latter will help admins carefully fashion the end-user experience to surface relevant apps. We also liked:
3. A third-party subscription purchase experience 4. The ability to grant Graph API permissions on behalf of the entire tenant
The UX sees useful tweaks
No Microsoft Teams edition is complete without additions to the end-user experience. This year, we saw several significant changes that are sure to improve your productivity when using Teams.
For example, Teams chat will soon have messaging actions (forward, save, etc.), mimicking the smartphone experience. Also, team owners can act as limited admins to install and restrict an app to their team members. There are a couple of nifty updates for Azure + Teams policy settings. The highlights to look out for are:
