Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams
- Source
- vercel.com
- Author
- Bhrigu Srivastava
- Date
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Vercel Connect's managed connector gives applications a bot inside Microsoft Teams. People can mention the bot in a channel or message it directly; the application receives the activity and supplies the reply. According to the announcement, Vercel handles the associated application and bot registration in the organization's tenant after an administrator completes setup.
The application requests scoped access credentials when needed, and Connect refreshes them automatically. This shifts registration and credential handling into the managed connector while developers implement the bot's behavior. Setup still requires a tenant administrator with an Azure subscription, and connector access applies only to the environments where it is attached.
- Vercel Connect's new Microsoft Teams connector has Vercel register the Entra app and Azure Bot resource directly in the customer's tenant, so no client secret needs to be stored by the developer.
- A tenant administrator with an Azure subscription does a one-time setup; after that, incoming Teams messages are verified and forwarded to the app as a Connect trigger.
- Access are requested on demand, scoped to what's asked for, and refreshed automatically, so there is nothing to rotate manually.
- Access can be revoked at any time with a single CLI command (vc connect revoke-tokens), and connectors only function in the environments they're explicitly attached to.
- token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
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