Summary
Teams app extensibility across Microsoft 365 offers a consolidated way to deliver your applications across various platforms to a broader user base. As these apps become a more integral part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, it's crucial to follow appropriate guidelines during the planning and development stages to ensure they meet the necessary validation requirements.
Here are the key points that you've learned in this module:
- How extending Teams apps across Microsoft 365 clients can enhance user experience by allowing users to access your app in the context of their work without switching platforms.
- The importance of maintaining functional cross-parity across Microsoft 365 clients. Also, avoiding common app review failures such as continuous loading indicators, error messages, or unresponsive actions in your app.
- General guidelines for publishing Teams apps extensible to Microsoft 365 including compatibility, mobile experience requirements, the need for appropriate app listing metadata, and support and privacy links relevant across all the supported clients.
- The necessity of thoroughly testing your app across various platforms and making sure it complies with the Microsoft commercial marketplace policies and Microsoft Teams store validation guidelines.
- Key steps for streamlining the app submission process, such as preparing your Partner Center account in advance, self-testing your app for bugs, ensuring responsiveness across form factors, and verifying your app package.
Understanding and addressing the common review failures to improve the quality of your app submission, expedite the app publishing process, and enhance your app's performance across Microsoft 365. However, Microsoft reserves the right to remove any app from the commercial marketplace if it doesn't adhere to the Microsoft commercial marketplace policies.