How to use the Approvals App in Microsoft Teams: Tutorial

The Approvals app in Microsoft Teams makes it easy to request, approve, reject and reassign approvals in your organisation. In this video tutorial I show you how to use the Teams approvals app for basic approvals, approvals requiring more than one person to approve, templated approvals for common scenarios, and how to use Power Automate to trigger automated approvals.


00:00 - Approvals App in Microsoft Teams
00:21 - Navigating around the Approvals App in Teams
01:23 - Create an approval request
03:31 - Approve, reject, or reassign an approval request
04:26 - Set up Teams notification preferences for approvals
05:18 - Create approval templates
08:43 - Automate approvals using Power Automate