Watching the Office 365 Roadmap with Microsoft Team Channel Messages

Do you find it hard to keep up to date with all the latest Office 365 Roadmap news?
Would you like an easier way to keep you and maybe your colleagues informed?

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Then look no further, with power of Microsoft Teams you can now post the Roadmap updates directly into a Microsoft Teams Channel. By using the super powers of Microsoft Flow we can now publish the Office 365 Roadmap cleanly into a Microsoft Teams Channel and heres how we can do it.

Launch http://flow.microsoft.com

Creating the Microsoft Flow for RSS to Microsoft Teams Channel

Select My Flows
Create New
Automated – from Blank

Give you Microsoft Flow a name and choose the RSS trigger for “When a feed item is published” then click create 🙂

Provide the following URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365RoadmapWatcher and select New Step as will now be defining the Microsoft Teams element to this flow

Please Note:

You must be signed into Flow with an account that has Microsoft Teams access.

Browse for Microsoft Teams and select Post a message (V3) (preview). The Microsoft Teams element in Flow are relatively new and all in public preview.

You will now need to specify your Team, Channel, Message and Subject. As you can see from below I am using Feed summary as the message and Feed title as the subject.

At the next trigger you will receive a message like below into your specified Microsoft Teams Channel.

Regards
The Author – Blogabout.Cloud