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 with

00:09: Check Point Email Security.

00:12: Log in to the Check Point Portal and access the Email Security Administration

00:17: Portal. If Microsoft Teams is the first product you are onboarding to Email Security,

00:22: the Welcome page appears.

00:24: If you already have a contract purchase from checkpoint, click already have a contract

00:28: and follow the on-screen instructions to add your user Center account.

00:31: Otherwise click Start free trial by default.

00:35: The trial is for 14 days and you can access all the features.

00:39: If the "Welcome to Check Point" page appears, click "Let's Get

00:42: Started" and in the "SaaS Selection" page that appears, click "Start" for Microsoft

00:46: Teams. If you have already onboarded another SaaS application with Email Security,

00:51: the Overview page appears.

00:54: Click security settings and then click SAS applications.

00:58: Click Start for Microsoft teams.

01:00: In the confirmation pop-up that appears click Start to confirm

01:04: You are now redirected to the Microsoft login page, follow the on-screen

01:08: instructions and sign in with Microsoft Global administrator credentials.

01:13: Review the permissions requested by checkpoint and click accept to Grant the

01:17: permissions.

01:18: The Microsoft Teams SaaS is enabled, and Email Security starts monitoring for security

01:23: events. To prevent threats,

01:25: you must change the policy protection mode.

01:28: To do that. From the left navigation, panel, click policy.

01:33: Expand Microsoft teams and click the default threat protection ru.

01:37: Select the policy protection mode as detect and remed.

01:41: Click Save and Apply.

01:42: Now, that the policy protection mode is changed to Detect and Remediate, Email

01:47: Security starts 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 Email Security 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 Email Security.

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

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