Activating Microsoft Teams

Important:

  • To activate Microsoft Teams, you must have administrator access to Office 365.

  • To activate Microsoft Teams, you must have any of these licenses:

    • Office 365 E5/A5/G5

    • Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5

    • Microsoft 365 E5/A5/F5/G5 Compliance and Microsoft 365 F5 Security & Compliance

    • Microsoft 365 E5/A5/F5/G5 Information Protection and Governance or Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance add-on, when either of them is added to one of the these E3 licenses:

      • Enterprise Mobility + Security E3

      • Office 365 E3

      • Microsoft 365 E3

To activate Microsoft Teams:

  1. From the Getting Started Wizard click Start for Microsoft Teams.
    Note:

    This wizard appears only when you are activating your first SaaS application in the Avanan Administrator Portal.

    or

    Navigate to Security Settings > SaaS Applications and click Start for Microsoft Teams.

  2. Click Start in the pop-up screen that appears.
  3. In the Microsoft Sign in window that opens, sign in with your Microsoft administrator credentials.
    Note:

    Microsoft performs the authentication, and Avanan does not provide these credentials.

  4. In the authorization screen from Microsoft, click Accept to grant necessary permissions to Avanan.

    For the list of permissions requested from Microsoft, see Required Permissions.

    The Microsoft Teams SaaS is enabled, and monitoring begins immediately.