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🙋♂️ Are you creating Power Apps for Microsoft 365 and hitting your limits? 🙋♀️ Facing challenges in managing your deployments, upgrades, and other governance issues with these apps? You're not the only one! 😩 Power Apps is one way to build Microsoft 365 apps, but there might be other options. For instance, custom Microsoft Teams apps could be a better solution if you're finding the above statements relatable. Would you like to explore this further? Join me for my upcoming webinar, "Deliver More to Your Organization with Custom Teams Apps," in collaboration with Orchestry on April 24 at 1p EDT! In this webinar, we'll discuss the process of developing custom Microsoft Teams apps. We'll also compare and contrast this approach with creating Power Apps, discussing its advantages and drawbacks. This is especially beneficial for those who feel they've reached their capacity with Power Apps or are frustrated with the governance aspect. You might find that custom Microsoft Teams apps can address your concerns and provide additional functionality. Register for this webinar today 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02qBHTn0 #Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Dev #MicrosoftTeams #PowerApps #FullStackDev

🙋♂️ Are you creating Power Apps for Microsoft 365 and hitting your limits? 🙋♀️ Facing challenges in managing your deployments, upgrades, and other governance issues with these apps? You're not the only one! 😩 Power Apps is one way to build Microsoft 365 apps, but there might be other options. For instance, custom Microsoft Teams apps could be a better solution if you're finding the above statements relatable. Would you like to explore this further? Join Andrew Connell at "Deliver More to Your Organization with Custom Teams Apps," next week, April 24 at 1pm EDT! In this webinar, he'll discuss the process of developing custom Microsoft Teams apps. He'll also compare and contrast this approach with creating Power Apps, discussing its advantages and drawbacks. This is especially beneficial for those who feel they've reached their capacity with Power Apps or are frustrated with the governance aspect. You might find that custom Microsoft Teams apps can address your concerns and provide additional functionality. Register for this webinar today 👉 https://hubl.li/Q02tcblY0 Hosted by Michal Pisarek. #Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Dev #MicrosoftTeams #PowerApps #FullStackDev

We're very excited to have Andrew Connell at our upcoming webinar: 'Deliver More to Your Organization with Custom Teams Apps.' Customers who have reached their limits with Power Apps or are frustrated with the governance story are wondering if custom Microsoft Teams apps can address their pain points and provide more functionality. Join us as Andrew explains the process of developing custom Microsoft Teams apps and compares and contrasts the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of this approach with creating Power Apps! Hosted by Michal Pisarek. Register here: https://hubs.ly/Q02lXrh70 #PowerApps #MSTeams #M365

Join in me to talk about building apps for #Microsoft365 using #MicrosoftTeams native full-stack development techniques! Many people jump to Power Apps, and while they work great in many scenarios, they aren't ideal for enterprise or LOB apps, plus you have to deal with messy governance & costly licensing. I'm looking forward to joining Michal Pisarek & Orchestry for an upcoming webinar to discuss this... and I want to make sure I cover your questions! What questions do you have about this approach? What frustrations are you running into with #PowerApps? Share them in the comments so I can make sure they're addressed in this webinar!

I couldn't have said it any better than my friends at Orchestry 👇 Microsoft has given customers multiple ways to create apps in Microsoft 365, including the #SharePointFramework and #PowerApps... ☝️ But one often overlooked option is native #MicrosoftTeams app development. Want to learn more? Join me next week for my webinar with Michal Pisarek and Orchestry where we discuss this option... it might be a better path forward for your next app!

🙋♂️ Are you creating Power Apps for Microsoft 365 and hitting your limits? 🙋♀️ Facing challenges in managing your deployments, upgrades, and other governance issues with these apps? You're not the only one! 😩 Power Apps is one way to build Microsoft 365 apps, but there might be other options. For instance, custom Microsoft Teams apps could be a better solution if you're finding the above statements relatable. Would you like to explore this further? Join me for my upcoming webinar, "Deliver More to Your Organization with Custom Teams Apps," in collaboration with Orchestry on April 24 at 1p EDT! In this webinar, we'll discuss the process of developing custom Microsoft Teams apps. We'll also compare and contrast this approach with creating Power Apps, discussing its advantages and drawbacks. This is especially beneficial for those who feel they've reached their capacity with Power Apps or are frustrated with the governance aspect. You might find that custom Microsoft Teams apps can address your concerns and provide additional functionality. Register for this webinar today 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02qBHTn0 #Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Dev #MicrosoftTeams #PowerApps #FullStackDev

"You can build an app more quickly using Power Apps and get it in the hands of your users, often faster than if you built it as a custom app, such as one that runs within Microsoft Teams or as a Microsoft 365 app.However, all those users must be licensed for Power Apps, and those licensing costs are ongoing. Of course Microsoft loves this because it provides an ongoing monthly source of revenue! Power Platform licensing is hugely profitable for Microsoft… no wonder just about every field office has Power Platform licensing specialist!But, these same licensing challenges don’t exist when you build full stack apps, for instance Microsoft Teams apps or Microsoft 365 apps. The costs, both in time & money, are skewed towards the construction phase of the app and not in ongoing licensing costs."

YESSS. Good topic and perspective from Andrew Connell on his article. Custom/Teams apps are absolutely something that should be considered as part of a larger approach when PP is involved - for exactly the reasons AC mentions. Both licensing confusion *and* the actual costs for some orgs. In many cases, knowledge of one, or both, are missing (PP and Teams Dev) or inadequate so they don't know where to start in figuring it out. In some cases, PP might be a great place to start, to model data, to test and refine user needs, requirements, and functionality and then evaluate the solution for a migration or redo with custom dev. At that point a lot of the requirements are better defined (by going through a design process with PP) so custom work can proceed with fewer changes or scope creep. Unfortunately, finding the balance between PP and custom apps is more nuanced and more challenging - so orgs take the easier path (shorter term) of one path or the other - losing the advantages of the other.

Join me at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in early May 2024 for my full-day workshop! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ehDzDD6s In this video, learn about my full-day seminar on Microsoft Teams AppDev. My seminar, "Workshop: Accelerate Your Teams App Development Journey: Build High-Quality Apps with Confidence", will get you started creating solutions for Microsoft Teams using the code-first approach. You'll learn how to get started and then what's involved in creating personal and channel apps (tabs), bots, message extensions, task modules (bots), AND even how to extend Copilot for Microsoft 365! 🤯 You'll get all the code, slides, and resources I use during the seminar... sit back, take notes, and ask questions. We'll have a blast! When you register, use the code CONNELL100 to save $100 off your registration. But wait, there's one more thing - attend and you'll get a special freebie to one of my upcoming courses that I'll give exclusively to those in attendance. 😳 🎁 See you in Orlando! PS - Did you find the easter egg in the video? 🤣 #microsoftteams #microsoft365 #microsoft365dev #m365conf

Using single part app pages in SharePoint Online Single part app pages provide a capability to host SharePoint Framework web parts or Microsoft Teams applications in SharePoint Online with a locked layout. End users cannot modify or configure the page that is using the Single Part App Page layout. App pages have following characteristics: *Single Part App Pages cannot be edited by end users using a browser *Currently supports hosting only single web part or Microsoft Teams application *End users can create new app pages using the New > Page experience available in modern sites. *Developers can change page layout programmatically from normal page layout to a Single Page App Page * End users can create new Article pages or Single Page App pages by using the New/page experience present in the ribbon of any modern article pages.