Configure the Totango bot for Microsoft Teams

Who can use this feature?

  • Global admins or users with advanced permissions can configure integrations
  • Not currently available for EU services

The Totango bot for Microsoft Teams allows anyone who can interact with the bot to query Totango data from MS Teams. The bot requires the following permissions for configuration:

  1. Admin or owner-user in MS Teams
  2. Totango admin permissions

An MS Teams user does not need to have any Totango licenses to be able to interact with the bot; it's up to the administrator of MS Teams to provide access to the bot according to the organization needs and policies.

If your organization's MS Teams admin does not have Totango admin account, consider creating a temporary Totango global admin user to share with your IT team who manages MS Teams. Post installation, disable the temporary Totango admin user.

1. Connect your MS Teams and Totango account

Your Totango administrator must do this step.

  1. From within Totango, click Settings from the left nav.
  2. Expand Data Management > Customer Data Hub.
  3. Under Collaboration, locate MS Teams, and click Connect.
  4. Click Add to Microsoft Teams.
  5. When successful, click OK.

2. Add the Totango bot to Totango teams

Your Totango administrator must do this step to define the account set that Totango bot can access. Add the Totango bot to every team that the bot should be able to access.

  1. From within Totango, click Settings from the left nav.
  2. Expand User Management > Teams.
  3. Click a team to view properties. 
  4. From the Team Members tab, click Add Zoe Slack Bot.
  5. Click to confirm account access.

The bot is added as a member of the team. The bot does not consume a license.

3. Install the Totango bot application (or allow installation)

Your MS Teams admin should do this step to provide the organization with access to the bot (either install for everyone or make available to everyone).

  1. Visit the Totango page within Microsoft AppSource.
  2. Click Get it now, and sign using the email address of the account you want to use when acquiring apps on AppSource.
  3. Choose the app permission options you want your organization to have.
    • If make available for installation, each MS Teams user who wants to use Totango bot for MS Teams must also add the app to their Teams application:
      • Within MS Teams, click +Apps.
      • Search for "Totango," and click Add.

        Or click here to go directly to the bot app within your Teams environment.

      • When successful, you should see the following message from Totango bot:
    ➡Learn more about interacting with Totango bot for Microsoft Teams.

FAQs

Question: I'm confused about Totango and Zoe; what are these names?

Answer: When Totango launched a Zoe bot for Slack, we envisioned it to become a brand of any tools that allow you to communicate with Totango system, without being a user (or necessity to login). Since then, we've unified our bot tools under the Totango brand name for simplicity. 

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