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Incoming webhooks - Microsoft Teams Tutorial
From the course: Developing for Microsoft Teams
Incoming webhooks
- Let's take a look at some Teams Extensions that offer a useful option when you just want to do something fairly simple, or in the case of Connectors something that can be used across Microsoft 365. Now Webhooks is a term that is widely used in the industry and has become a standard way of connecting services together. Essentially, it's a way of solving the problem of monitoring the state of something, looking for changes. For example, suppose I want to know when something gets added to a SharePoint list or an email server or a database row gets added to a table, I could just keep checking it every few seconds. And that's a process called Polling and it's very inefficient. So the Webhook approach means you provide an endpoint on the service that you can subscribe to. So it's a sort of publish and subscribe model but using web technologies and REST. The first thing we're going to look at is Teams incoming Webhooks…
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