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George71
Brass Contributor
Oct 01, 2020

Teams Tab App Not Working On External Web Server

Hi,   I'm trying to deploy my Teams tab app on an external Tomcat web server but Teams is not rendering the tab. i.e. the tab is blank.   However, when I use ngrok and deploy the same Teams tab a...
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George71
Brass Contributor
Oct 05, 2020

Nikitha-MSFT 

I did add a valid domain to the manifest.json file. Here is my manifest file:

{
    "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/json-schemas/teams/v1.7/MicrosoftTeams.schema.json",
    "manifestVersion": "1.7",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "id": "243244b2-5499-4442-864b-9e6be093ebbf",
    "packageName": "com.gctest",
    "developer": {
        "name": "GcTest",
        "websiteUrl": "https://www.microsoft.com",
        "privacyUrl": "https://www.microsoft.com/privacy",
        "termsOfUseUrl": "https://www.microsoft.com/termsofuse"
    },
    "icons": {
        "outline": "contoso20x20.png",
        "color": "contoso96x96.png"
    },
    "name": {
        "short": "GENCom App",
        "full": "GENCom App for Microsoft Teams"
    },
    "description": {
        "short": "App for Microsoft Teams",
        "full": "This app provides an innterface to make GENCom voice calls from within Microsoft Teams."
    },
    "accentColor": "#60A18E",
    "staticTabs": [
        {
            "entityId": "com.gctest.findcontacts",
            "name": "Contact List",
            "contentUrl": "https://172.29.120.99/gctest/findcontacts.html",
            "scopes": [
                "team"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "permissions": [
        "identity",
        "messageTeamMembers"
    ],
    "validDomains": [
        "172.29.120.99"
    ]
}
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Nikitha-MSFT
Former Employee
Oct 08, 2020

George71 - IP address will not support for the tab. Valid you please try adding the web domain instead of IP address? Try if that helps.