M365 Teams Automation

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May 27 & 28, 2020
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MICROSOFT 365 VIRTUAL MARATHON
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Christopher Barber

MICROSOFT 365
Virtual MARATHON
May 27 & 28, 2020
36 hours / 2 days

 Chris Barber, Pasadena, CA USA
 Solutions Architect @ Perficient
 Current Focus: Teams, Custom Connectors, Graph API
 Background:
 Office 365
 SharePoint Development & Administration
 Server Administration, VMWare, CISCO
 C#, PowerShell, .NET, FHIR, Objective-C,
 Meditech, EPIC, Cerner, Allscripts, Dragon
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What are we doing here today…
Manually deploying Microsoft Teams for an organization is overwhelming no matter the size.
 Permissions
 Owners & Members
 Handling requests & approvals
 Ensuring consistency across the builds
 Creation of a repeatable automated process

Graph API
o What is the Graph API
o Teams Integration with the Graph
API
o Available Actions
Azure
o Creation of an app registration
Connectors
o What is a connector?
o Components of a connector?
o Types of Connectors?
Session Overview
 Creating a Custom Connector
 Creating a Power Automate Flow
 Demos

 What is the Graph API?
 How does the Graph API relate to Microsoft Teams?
 Graph Explorer
Microsoft Graph API

Microsoft Graph exposes REST APIs and client libraries to
access data on the following Microsoft 365 services:
• Office 365 services: Delve, Excel, Microsoft Bookings,
Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook/Exchange,
Planner, and SharePoint
• Enterprise Mobility and Security services: Advanced Threat
Analytics, Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Active
Directory, Identity Manager, and Intune
• Windows 10 services: activities, devices, notifications
• Dynamics 365 Business Central
What is the Graph API?

What's it do?
This operation creates a copy of the corresponding group or a base template.
It even allows you to customize what parts of the team you would like to clone:
• apps - Copies Microsoft Teams apps that are installed in the
team.
• channels – Copies the channel structure (but not the messages in
the channel).
• members – Copies the members and owners of the group.
• settings – Copies all settings within the team, along with key
group settings.
• tabs – Copies the tabs within channels.
Permissions Required:
• Group.ReadWrite.All
Graph API – Clone a Team

 What is an Azure App Registration?
 How does the registration relate to Microsoft Teams?
 Building an app registration
Azure App Registration

to Azure Active Directory at portal.azure.com . Choose the Azure
Active Directory link in the left navigation menu, then choose
the App registrations entry in the Manage section of the Azure
Active Directory blade.
2. Choose the New registration menu item at the top of the App
Registrations blade.
3. With the app registration open we will enter in our name
Marathon Graph API in the Name field. In the Supported account
types section, select Accounts in my organization and for the time
being we are going to leave the Redirect URI section blank. We
will come back to this later on once our connector has been built.
With all of the fields complete now we are going to
choose Register.
4. Now that the base of our app registration has been created. Let’s
take a minute to copy down some information that we will need
for our custom connector. So at the top of the screen let’s copy
the Application ID and the Tenant ID.
5. Next let’s select the API permissions entry in the Manage section
of the MS Graph Batch App blade. Once that page loads, lets

6. In the Request API permissions blade, choose the Microsoft Graph, then
choose Delegated permissions. Search for group, then select the Read and
write all groups delegated permission. Choose Add permissions at the
bottom of the blade.
7. Choose the Certificates and secrets entry in the Manage section of
the MS Graph Batch App blade, then choose New client secret.
Enter forever in the Description and select Never under Expires.
Choose Add.
8. Copy the key value for the new key. You'll need this in the next exercise.
Note: To enable management of additional services accessible via the Microsoft Graph, including
Teams properties, you would need to select additional, appropriate scopes to enable managing specific
services.

Demo Video
Build the Azure App Registration

 What is the Power Platform?
 What are connectors? What types of connectors are there?
 How do connectors relate to Microsoft Teams?
Power Platform &
Connectors

Connector Overview
A connector is a proxy or a wrapper around an API that allows the underlying service to
talk to Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power Apps, and Azure Logic Apps. It
provides a way for users to connect their accounts and leverage a set of pre-built actions
and triggers to build their apps and workflows.
Out of the box Microsoft offers over 320+ connectors to connect to Microsoft and non-
Microsoft services
In some circumstances you may want to communicate with services that aren't available as
prebuilt connectors though. Custom connectors address this scenario by allowing you to
create and even share a connector with its own triggers and actions.

Custom Connector Overview
Why would we use a custom connector?
- Availability
- HTTP Connector
- Premium Connector
- Reuse, Expansion, and Controls

 Where do I build a connector?
 How do I build a custom connector from scratch?
 How do I bring in the Graph API actions?
 How do I test the connector once its been created?
Building a Connector

Demo Video
Build the Custom Connector

 List requirements for integration
 How does a SharePoint list relate to our Microsoft Teams
automation?
 Build a SharePoint List
SharePoint Integration

• Purpose: The purpose of this list will be to create a tracking mechanism and submission process for the
creation of teams using the Graph API.
• Fields:
o Team:
o Purpose: Store the name of the Team
o Field Type: Single Line Text
o Description:
o Purpose: Store the description of the Team
o Field Type: Multi Line Text
o Template:
o Purpose: Allows user the ability to store the Template to copy from
o Field Type: Drop Down Choice
o Status:
o Purpose: Will automatically update based on the current state of the process.
o Field Type: Drop Down Choice (Read Only)
Completed
Denied
New Request
In Progress
Building the List

Demo Video
Demo the configuration of the SharePoint List

 Adding our connector into a Flow
 Review of the Flow
 Demo
 Channel Build
 Messages
Power Automate Flow
Build

Workflow Overview
• Upon new list item trigger the associated Flow
• Update the list item status to In Progress
• Kick off an approval process
• Using a condition we determine the approval response from the pre-
configured users:
• If the request is denied, trigger an email then update the status
to denied.
• If the request is approved send an email to the originator and
begin the remaining process.
• Update the list item status to approved
• Process the API request to clone the team template using the list
provided information
• Send a completed email to the approver and submitter and update
the status to completed.

• Graph API Call
• URL: “/teams/[TeamID]/clone”
Customization Options:
Team Display Name: [SharePoint List Value]
Description of New Team: [SharePoint List Value]
MailNickName: [SharePoint List Value]
PartsToClone: Apps, Channels, Tabs, Settings, Members
Visibility: Public or Private
Workflow Overview

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36 hours / 2 days
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