Collaborate within Microsoft Teams#

The Mattermost for Microsoft Teams plugin enables you to break through siloes in a mixed Mattermost and Teams environment by forwarding real-time chat notifications from Teams to Mattermost.

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Connect your Mattermost account to your Microsoft Teams account#

To use the Microsoft Teams plugin, you must connect your Mattermost user account to your Microsoft Teams account. You only need to complete this step once.

  1. Log into Mattermost using your credentials.

  2. In any channel, run the /msteams connect slash command, and select the resulting link.

  3. Authenticate with Microsoft Teams using the email address matching your account in Mattermost.

Mattermost will confirm when your account is connected, and prompt you to enable notifications.

Enable notifications#

Once you’ve connected your Mattermost account to your Microsoft Teams account, Mattermost prompts you to enable notifications. When enabled, any messages you receive in a chat or group chat in Microsoft Teams will be appear in Mattermost as a notification, with a link to open the chat in Microsoft Teams and continue the conversation.

Note

Your system administrator must enable support for notifications.

An example of a chat message notification.

Mattermost Slash commands#

You can run the following Mattermost slash commands by typing the commands into the Mattermost message text box, and selecting Send:

  • /msteams connect: Connect your Mattermost account to Microsoft Teams account.

  • /msteams disconnect: Disconnect your Mattermost account from Microsoft Teams account.

  • /msteams status: Show your current connection status.

  • /msteams notifications: Manage and show your current notifications settings.