Updated: July 9, 2023 (July 9, 2023)

Publishing Custom Teams Apps for Organizations

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Organizations can use Teams apps to extend the functionality of Teams with information and content from Microsoft and other services.
Customers can publish in-house Teams apps to a private section of the Teams app store for internal-only distribution.
Sideloading allows developers to test and use their Teams apps without administrator review.

Teams is a Microsoft 365 service for organizations that offers group-based collaboration spaces with persistent chat, voice and video meetings, integrated access to several Microsoft 365 services, and connections to many third-party services. Customers can purchase or build apps to customize Teams and enable users to access other services without leaving Teams. (For more details, see the sidebar “Teams Apps Offer Extension and Integration”.)

Organizations may want to develop in-house Teams apps to bring information from internal business applications and services directly into the Teams spaces where users are already working. To distribute these custom apps, Teams provides two options that differ in complexity and the level of administrative control offered:

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