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Every now and then, Microsoft Teams will be down. What this means is the Microsoft Teams service from Microsoft is down, and there’s not a whole lot you can do. There’s several reasons behind the scenes why the service may be down, such as Microsoft applying a patch that didn’t turn out as expected. Here’s what you should do to confirm the service is down or if you’re experiencing a … Continue reading How to Tell if Microsoft Teams is Down
In a previous post, we looked at how to create a PowerApps Virtual Agent that gets the weather from an MSN weather service, so users can ask the bot what the weather is. In this post, we will deploy that service out to Microsoft Teams, so users of Teams can easily ask the bot questions. First, let’s go to the bot and go to Manage->Channels, then select Microsoft Teams: This … Continue reading Publishing a Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Bot to Microsoft Teams
There are several use cases where you may want to run a Microsoft Flow from a web page or sending an HTTP GET request. Let’s do this. We will create a flow that runs when a user accesses a web address and performs the action of posting to a Microsoft Teams chat. First, let’s create an Instant Microsoft Flow by going to https://flow.microsoft.com and selecting New->Instant – From Blank: We … Continue reading Triggering a Microsoft Flow using a Webpage or HTTP GET Request
In this post we will look at how you can perform an action based on a data-driven alert using Microsoft Flow. In our previous post, we looked at how to set up data-driven alerts. In our example, we created an alert for when our quantity on hand was less than 3 for our inventory item monitored by Power BI. To set up an action based on this alert, we can … Continue reading Post to Microsoft Teams based on Power BI Data-Driven Alert Using Microsoft Flow
To install, go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/app-studio-overview and click on the link to download App Studio: Click to open Microsoft Teams (or you can launch the Web Client to do this): In Teams, click Add: You will be taken to the App Studio: You can also access App Studio by clicking on the 3 dots in the bottom left and then selecting App Studio:
In Dynamics 365 / PowerApps, Skype / Teams statuses can be displayed next to the names of users in fields. Below we can see the status as green (available): And if the user changes the status to Do not Disturb (changing below in Teams): We see the status updated automatically on the record: To enable/disable the status, go to the admin center at https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and change the Skype presence: We see now … Continue reading How to Disable and Enable Skype or Teams Presence in Dynamics 365 PowerApps Forms
Did you know you can join Zoom calls from within Microsoft Teams? Let’s look at how to set this up. In Microsoft Teams, click on Apps in the bottom left: Search for Zoom and click on it: Click Add: Once added, we see the Zoom bot: Now let’s connect our Zoom to Teams. Click on My Meetings, then Sign In: Click Pre-Approve: Then click Authorize Click Accept: Zoom is now … Continue reading Join Zoom Calls from Microsoft Teams with the Zoom Teams App
To enable preview features for Microsoft Teams, do the following. In Teams, click on your user icon in the top right, then click About->Developer Preview: Select Switch to Developer Preview: You will now see it checked: That’s it, you will now have the preview Teams features.
In this post, we will look at how to add a SharePoint site to Teams. Sign into Teams, and go to a team. In the right you will see a +: Here we can select the type of tab we want to add: Search for SharePoint. The first one is “View pages and collaborate with lists”, the second is “Add a tab for a SharePoint news article or page”: We … Continue reading Add a SharePoint Site to Teams
To enable Microsoft Teams, perform the following steps. First, go to Office 365 Admin at http://portal.office.com and select Services and Add-Ins: Select Microsoft Teams: Set to On: Go to Teams: Go to teams.microsoft.com and sign in to see your teams: In the bottom left of the page you will see a link to create teams: Enter a new team. We will call this the Power BI team: Add members to the team: … Continue reading Introduction to Microsoft Teams