Create External Credentials for the Microsoft Teams Connector (Beta)

To ingest data from Microsoft Teams to Data 360, set up an external credential for Microsoft Teams.

Before you begin:

  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Named Credentials. Then select Named Credentials (1).

    namedcredential definition

  2. On the External Credentials tab (2), click New.

    • Enter a label and name for your external credential. The name can’t contain spaces. You can use underscores.

    • For Authentication Protocol, select OAuth 2.0.

    • For Authentication Flow Type, select Browser Flow.

    • For Authentication Provider, select the provider you created.

      • The Auth Provider type should be OpenID Connect.
      • In your Auth Provider, Consumer Key is the Client ID from your Azure App.
      • In your Auth Provider, Consumer Secret is the Client Secret value from the Certificates & Secrets section of your Azure App.
      • Authorize Endpoint URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantID}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize
      • Token Endpoint URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantID}/oauth2/v2.0/token

    • Click Save.

  3. Add principal to external credentials

    • In the external credentials that you created, under Principals, click New.

    • Enter the parameter name. You can include spaces.

    • For Identity Type, select Named Principal.

    • Add the following scopes in the principal:

      • Directory.Read.All
      • offline_access
      • https://graph.microsoft.com/group.read.all
      • https://graph.microsoft.com/group.readwrite.all
      • https://graph.microsoft.com/user.read.all
      • https://graph.microsoft.com/appcatalog.readwrite.all

    • Set the Sequence Number to 1.

    • Click Save.

  4. Authenticate your external credentials.

    • Under Principals, from the Actions dropdown menu, select Authenticate.

    • Follow the authentication flow and confirm access permissions.

    • To connect Data Cloud to Microsoft Teams, click Allow.

      After you authenticate, the status changes to Configured.

  5. Define the named credential.

    • In the Named Credentials Tab, click New. Then enter a label and name. The name can’t contain spaces, but you can use underscores.

    • For the URL, enter https://www.teams.microsoft.com.

    • For external credentials, select the credential that you created.

    • Click Save.

  6. Enable external credentials access.

    • From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Profiles. Then select it.

    • Click System Administrator.

    • On the Enable External Credential Principal Access tab, click Edit.

    • Add the external credentials principal that you created to the Enabled External Credentials Principals column.

    • Click Save.