Manifest does not work with extension field content making Bot + Outlook add-in not possible

[Sphinx95]

Hello,

I'm new to programming and github so I don't know if I'm allowed to create issue.

I take the manifest sample on this repo:

hello-world-teams-tab-and-outlook-add-in/appPackage/manifest.json

I run the command: teamsapp package --manifest-file ./appPackage/manifest.json --output-package-file ./appPackage/build/appPackage.test.zip

I try to upload appPackage.test.zip in the Teams admin center but I get this error:

{
"error": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Failed to execute settings store request: https://emea.settings.teams.internal.office.com/v1.0/settings/teams/apps/6c4ec7c0-98a1-403c-ad61-f56d7a9585fb/definitionv2, StatusCode: 400, ReasonPhrase: Schema validation errors, X-MSEdge-Ref: 907de1a5-0d71-4763-beea-d7960e2e31f6",
"innerError": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Failed to execute settings store request: https://emea.settings.teams.internal.office.com/v1.0/settings/teams/apps/6c4ec7c0-98a1-403c-ad61-f56d7a9585fb/definitionv2, StatusCode: 400, ReasonPhrase: Schema validation errors, X-MSEdge-Ref: 907de1a5-0d71-4763-beea-d7960e2e31f6",
"details": [],
"date": "2025-02-08T18:20:37",
"request-id": "09ec8965-b8b7-49ce-8782-f6fe2d1e3958",
"client-request-id": "09ec8965-b8b7-49ce-8782-f6fe2d1e3958"
}
}
}

If I remove all the content in the extensions field then it works:

{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#appCatalogs/teamsApps/$entity",
"id": "cdbb4740-169f-4ec1-95df-5088ce90f644",
"externalId": "61c6407f-5b07-402e-bad5-14d404a1922b",
"displayName": "Contoso",
"distributionMethod": "organization"
}

Does anyone know what is happening? I went through 4 customer support tickets, no one knows how to solve this.

My understanding is that the extensions can be used to for example have a Teams app with a Bot AND an Outlook taskpane for example.

Thank you for your help!

[Sphinx95]

Hello,

I don't know if that helps but I found someone with a similar issue. The investigation is ongoing:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/teamsdeveloper/outlook-plugin-updating-manifest-doesnt-work-update-tenantappdefinition-failed/4375047

[Sphinx95]

Hi @jayzhang ,

Any updates on your side?

[johnnycardy]

Also hitting this issue when attempting to convert an add-in to use the unified manifest as per this tutorial;
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/convert-xml-to-json-manifest

[jayzhang]

@Sphinx95 Thanks for reporting. I can not successfully reproduce the the command: teamsapp package --manifest-file ./appPackage/manifest.json --output-package-file ./appPackage/build/appPackage.test.zip: the error is:

The raw manifest.json file is a template that contains placeholders for environment variables that need to replace after provision is done.

The normal step is: 1. create sample app hello-world-teams-tab-and-outlook-add-in from TTK 2. open the project and trigger F5 for local debug, 3. after debug, make sure the env file is filled with provisioned values:

4. after debug, the package file is automatically generated:

Alternatively, you can run command teamsapp package --manifest-file ./appPackage/manifest.json --output-package-file ./appPackage/build/appPackage.test.zip --env local to create the app package manually by CLI.

Could you please share your zip package without credential information in it?

[Sphinx95]

appPackage.test.zip

Hi @jayzhang ,

Thanks for the update. Please find the .zip file attached.