# Quickstarts

> The following are links to step-by-step instructions on how to use the Microsoft Teams activities. These guides help you create a working sample of the different activities so that you can verify the connection to your Microsoft Teams application and get familiar with the input/output datatypes.

## Overview

The following are links to step-by-step instructions on how to use the Microsoft Teams activities. These guides help you create a working sample of the different activities so that you can verify the connection to your Microsoft Teams application and get familiar with the input/output datatypes.

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     Quickstart  
     Description  
  
 
 
  
     Get Teams, Channels, and Messages  
     After completing the steps in this guide, you'll have an automation sequence that does the following: 
      
         Establishes a connection to your registered Microsoft Teams application (  Microsoft Teams Scope  ). 
         Finds and returns a team that matches your team search query (  Get Teams  ). 
         Finds and returns channel, from your specified team, that matches your channel search query (  Get Channels  ). 
         Retrieves all messages from your specified channel (  Get Messages  ). 
         Verifies the messages were retrieved by outputting the message body content and returning any message replies (  For Each  and  Write Line  , and  Get Message Replies  ). 
      

  
  
     Get Chats and Send Message  
     After completing the steps in this guide, you'll have an automation sequence that does the following: 
      
         Establishes a connection to your registered Microsoft Teams application (  Microsoft Teams Scope  ). 
         Retrieves all of your chats  Get Chats  . 
         Retrieves the members of each of your chats (  For Each  and  Get Chat Members  ). 
         Locates the chat that includes a specific chat member and sends a message (  If  ,  Assign  , and  Send Message  . 
         Verifies the message was sent successfully by retrieving and outputting the message Id and message content  Get Message  and  Write Line  ).