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Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams

Vercel Connect now ships a managed Teams bot connector—no client secrets, no manual token rotation, agents can @mention it in channels.

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Why it matters

Vercel lowers the friction for deploying app and agent integrations into Microsoft Teams by handling OAuth, bot registration, and token lifecycle automatically. Relevant to teams building agentic workflows inside enterprise chat platforms.

The key facts

12 to know
  1. Vercel managed connector for Microsoft Teams now GA

  2. Automatic Entra app and Azure Bot resource registration

  3. No client secrets to manage; token scoping and auto-refresh built in

  4. Works with @vercel/connect SDK, eveChat SDK, and chat adapters

  5. One-time tenant admin setup; connectors scoped to specific environments

  6. Revoke access via 'vc connect revoke-tokens' CLI command

  7. Vercel Connect adds managed Microsoft Teams connector

  8. Org-wide bot provisioning via Entra/Azure Bot Service (no client secret management)

  9. SDK support: @vercel/connect, eveChat, Slack adapter compatible

  10. Token scoping and auto-refresh; revoke via 'vc connect revoke-tokens'

  11. Single tenant-admin setup; connector bound to specific environments

  12. Incoming Teams activities verified and forwarded as Connect trigger events

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Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: now includes a managed connector for . Creating one gives your organization a Teams bot that your apps and agents run. People can @mention it in channels or message it directly, and your code receives the message and replies as the bot.Vercel ConnectMicrosoft Teams As a , Vercel registers the Entra…
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