He created a Microsoft Teams “app” to embed Outlook on the Web (previously called Outlook Web App) in Microsoft Teams. So Brent Whichel, Director and Modern Workplace Evangelist, has done just that. That being said, Microsoft Teams offers a development platform/app studio and an ability to create your own Teams apps. However, a big part of the positioning of “Workstream Collaboration” products is getting away from email in order to be more productive, so Microsoft adding email to Teams might well impact the marketing message/typical user usage.
This is obviously not a big technical challenge, Microsoft has a great web-based email application, clearly it could be added to Teams technically, just like Trello, Planner or any other web app can be added today. This often provokes the question, why is there not access to email in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is often positioned as the single application for your communication and collaboration and sometimes even the single pane of glass for business productivity. It just shows you the power behind the platform. This app is NOT a supported enterprise-level app. This is a custom app that was written using the power of App Studio within Teams.
DISCLAIMER – This is a community-written Proof of Concept custom App
