Teams Real Simple with Pictures: The Microsoft 365 Admin App is here. In Teams.

In a couple of days time I'll be presenting on Microsoft Loop at the Modern Workplace Conference in Paris (MWCP). It's my second time lucky. I am very proud to be returning to such a prestigious event given it was the one that got me interested in the circuit in the first place. Vesku and I will be teaming up again once more. Last year we talked about Teams as a Platform. This year I guess you could say we are also talking about Teams as a Platform exploring Loop Components, their intricacies, and other aspects we've investigated like compliance and flows. It's all very exciting given that they are only just rolling out into Ring 4 (GA) from preview. Now, earlier today whilst doing the prep work something caught my eye. You know the score. In the ever changing landscape of cloud apps things pop up out of nowhere. But this I had to do a double take on. The Microsoft 365 Admin App - yes, the admin app as in the awesome one you get on your phone via the apple store to manage aspects of your tenant and review service health - its now surfaced into Teams. Now before I start getting too carried away I am sure as a v1.0 it isn't going to have parity with the current admin app, or anywhere near the web version. So even before looking at it I am going to set my expectations low. But imagine. Imagine how handy considering how much we work in Teams if you could just spin up a user or a Team by launching it off the app rail. Also, on first thoughts, it's probably not an app we are going to want to make accessible for the majority of our users in Teams so we'll probably need to whip out some app permissions policies considering these things get launched with a default of on.