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Outgoing webhooks - Microsoft Teams Tutorial
From the course: Developing for Microsoft Teams
Outgoing webhooks
- [Instructor] An incoming webhook is a way of getting messages into Microsoft Teams so as you can probably guess, the job of an outgoing webhook is to allow people to send messages from Teams out to some external service. For example, we might want to perform some kind of action against a backend system. So once that's configured, the user in Teams will typically at mention the outgoing webhook and send it a message. And usually, but not necessarily the service in other words, your application will send something back, like an acknowledgement or maybe a further interaction with the user. Setting up an outgoing webhook is about as easy as setting up an incoming webhook. You can think of it as a simple bot without the sophistication of the bot framework. Let's set one of these up. So to get started we need some sort of backend service that we can call and that's going to respond to HTTP requests. Now we've already done…