Outgoing Webhook In MS Teams

This blog would help you to configure Outgoing Webhook and receive message sent from MS Teams.

Overview

 

This blog will help you to configure Outgoing Webhook and receive messages sent from MS Teams.

Outgoing Webhook in MS Teams acts like a bot and we can trigger it from channel using @mention and we can send the message to the channels as well using outgoing webhooks.

Note

Outgoing webhook are scoped at the team level.

 

Solution for Outgoing webhook

 

Step 1

 

Clone the repository from the below link for sample purposes:

https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-sample-outgoing-webhook

 

Step 2

 

Open the solution in Visual Studio and run the Solution

 

Step 3

 

Install ngrok from the below link

https://ngrok.com/download

 

Step 4

 

Open command prompt and navigate to the folder where we have stored ngrok.exe:

 

ngrok.exe http 1163 -host-header="localhost:1163"

 

Step 5

 

Copy the forwarding with https URL

 

 

 

Registering Outgoing webhook

 

Step 1

 

Click on More options(…) on Teams

 

Step 2

 

On the fly out menu select "Manage Team"

 

Step 3

 

Select the Apps Tab in Manage Teams section and click on Create an outgoing webhook

 

 

 

Step 4

 

Fill in the form with appropriate data

• Name :- This name would be used in @mention name
• Callback URL :- The URL copied from ngrok and appened it with /api/sample
• Description :- This would be used for describing the outgoing webhook

 

 

Step 5

 

Once we click on create we will get an access token which will be used for authenticating the data.

 

Copy the code and add it in the sample solution AuthProvider.cs file.

 

 

 

Final Outcome