Updates to Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams

Since the general availability announcement of the Microsoft Graph API for Microsoft Teams last November Microsoft has added additional features for automating team lifecycles:

  • 7 new types of teams (preview) including three types for education, two for retail, and two for healthcare
  • Installing apps using application permissions (preview) is the way to create, install or upgrade an app across all teams in a tenant.
  • New types of tabs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and document libraries.
  • Replying to channel messages and sending channel messages with subjects and @mentions (preview)
  • Use Microsoft Graph to install a bot that sends messages
  • Deep links to channels (preview)
  • Global admins and Teams service admins can access teams that they are not a member of, allowing them to create teams, change team settings, add or remove members, and create or delete channels and tabs.

More Information:
Microsoft Graph team resource type
What’s new in Microsoft Teams – March round up