How to fix the authentication issues with personal apps using SharePoint pages

By João Ferreira Feb 13, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 5 Comments

SharePoint has been out there forever and I’m sure you have a lot of content on it that you would love to start seeing on Microsoft Teams.

Vesa Juvonen did an amazing video covering a typical scenario of how SharePoint and Teams can be integrated without writing code but unfortunately the solution fails when used on the desktop Microsoft Teams client.

The with this solution is that the SharePoint page is not doing the authentication and the user ends up in a blank page, as shown in the following image.

In order to make it work you will need to modify it either by editing the manifest.json or by adding extra properties to it using he app studio.

The modifications made to the solution are documented here and you should be able to use them without any problem, in the following image you have highlighted all the necessary additions to the manifest.

Since the original video describe the process as a no code solution I’m providing the steps

1. Start by opening the app on the app studio
2. Edit your tabs and modify the content url to the following format

   https://handsonsp.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/teamslogon.aspx?spfx=true&dest=/sites/projects/SitePages/It's-all-about-communication.aspx

   
   The link to the actual page is added as a relative URL after the query string dest.

Leave the website url with the default SharePoint link

3. On the domains and permissions add the following domains manually by clicking in the Add button
   

   *.login.microsoftonline.com
   *.sharepoint.com
   *.sharepoint-df.com
   spoppe-a.akamaihd.net
   spoprod-a.akamaihd.net
   resourceseng.blob.core.windows.net
   msft.spoppe.com
   

4. On the domains and permissions scroll down and add the following value to the AAD App-ID field

   00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000

   This app already exists on your azure and is used also by the SPFx web parts on Microsoft Teams

5. On the domain permission add the URL to your SharePoint portal to the Single-Sign-On filed
   
6. Save the app and install it, the following animation demonstrates how it will work now when used on the Microsoft Teams desktop client

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