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

00:04: This tutorial demonstrates, how to activate protection for Microsoft, teams, 00:09: with Harmony, email and collaboration. 00:11: Log in to Infinity Portal and access the harmony email and 00:15: collaboration Administration portal. 00:17: If Microsoft teams is the first product, you are onboarding to Harmony 00:21: email and collaboration the welcome page appears 00:25: If you already have a contract purchase from checkpoint, click already have a contract 00:30: and follow the on-screen instructions to add your user Center account. 00:33: Otherwise click Start free trial by default. 00:36: The trial is for 14 days and you can access all the features. 00:40: If welcome to checkpoint page appears click, let's get started. 00:43: And in the SAS selection page, that appears, click Start for Microsoft teams. 00:47: If you have already, onboarded another SAS application with Harmony 00:52: email and collaboration, the overview page appears 00:56: Click security settings and then click SAS applications. 01:00: Click Start for Microsoft teams. 01:02: In the confirmation pop-up that appears click Start to confirm 01:06: You are now redirected to the Microsoft login page, follow the on-screen 01:11: instructions and sign in with Microsoft Global administrator credentials. 01:15: Review the permissions requested by checkpoint and click accept to Grant the 01:19: permissions. 01:20: The Microsoft teams SAS is enabled and Harmony email and collaboration 01:24: starts monitoring for security events to prevent threats. 01:29: You must change the policy protection mode. 01:31: To do that. From the left navigation, panel, click policy. 01:36: Expand Microsoft teams and click the default threat protection ru. 01:40: Select the policy protection mode as detect and remed. 01:44: Click save and apply now that the policy protection mode is changed 01:48: to detect and remediate Harmony email and collaboration starts 01:53: taking remedy actions.

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 Harmony Email & Collaboration 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 Check Point does not provide these credentials.

  4. In the authorization screen from Microsoft, click Accept to grant necessary permissions to Harmony Email & Collaboration.

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

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