Configuration guide: Microsoft Teams - Stability and compliance

Overview

For many companies, Microsoft Teams has become an essential tool for communication and collaboration both between employees and with third parties. It is imperative, therefore, that IT teams are able to monitor the status of this application across the organization, in terms of performance, stability, adoption, and network connectivity

Pre-requisites

This library pack contains some widgets that are dependent on Connections data

Note: Connections events are only available for devices with Collectors that report 'Infinity only'.

Content and dependencies

This library pack contains the following content and dependencies:

Type
Name
Description
Dependencies

Live dashboards

MS Teams - Stability and compliance

Provides visibility over key performance, adoption, and compliance data points from the Teams landscape

Remote actions

Get Microsoft Teams Work or School client status

Retrieves the installation status of MS Teams as well as the client version and the number of months since the last update.

Required to populate specific dashboard widgets.

Clear Microsoft Teams Work or School cache

Closes Microsoft Teams Work or School if it is open and deletes the cache files.

Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School Windows

Downloads and installs the latest version of Microsoft Teams on all targeted devices

Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School macOS

Downloads and installs the latest version of Microsoft Teams on all targeted devices

Remote action campaigns

Close Microsoft Teams (short maintenance) - Invoke

Asks users if they agree to have MS Teams closed for maintenance. If they agree, the Clear cache remote action will be triggered

Required to include a notification with the "Clear Microsoft Teams Work or School cache" remote action.

Close Microsoft Teams (short maintenance) - Completed

Informs users that the MS Teams maintenance is complete and can be reopened. It will appear after the remote action is successful.

Required to include a notification with the "Clear Microsoft Teams Work or School cache" remote action.

Reinstall Microsoft Teams - Invoke

Asks users if they agree to have MS Teams reinstalled for maintenance. If they agree, the remote action will trigger to close MS Teams and reinstall the application.

Required to include a notification with the "Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School Windows" and “Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School macOS” remote actions

Reinstall Microsoft Teams - Completed

Informs users that MS Teams has been re-installed and can be restarted. It will appear after the remote action is successful.

Required to include a notification with the "Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School Windows" and “Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School macOS” remote actions

Configuration guide

To effectively use this library pack, the content must be installed and configured appropriately. Below are some suggested steps to install and configure the content properly before use.

Step 1) Install library pack content

Go to the Nexthink Library and install all required content.

Step 2) Configure remote action(s)

Navigate to the manage remote action administration page to review and edit your remote actions.

We recommend the following configurations for these remote actions:

Name
Trigger
Schedule query
Parameters to edit

Get Microsoft Teams Work or School client status

Scheduled, weekly

Code
devices
| with execution.events
| where binary.product_name = "Microsoft Teams (work or school)" or (binary.product_name ="Microsoft Teams" and device.operating_system.platform = windows and binary.version >= v24102.2223.2870.9480) or (binary.product_name ="Microsoft Teams" and device.operating_system.platform = macos and binary.version >= v24102.2214.2869.7475)

Clear Microsoft Teams Work or School cache

Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices

Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School Windows

Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices

Reinstall Microsoft Teams Work or School macOS

Manual, can be triggered on multiple devices

Step 3) Edit campaigns

Navigate to the manage campaigns administration page to review and edit your campaigns.

For each installed campaign, please ensure to:

  • Customize the sender name and image.

  • Review and adjust questions.

  • Publish the campaign when you are ready to use it.

We recommend the following configurations for these campaigns:

Name
Trigger
Priority

Close Microsoft Teams (short maintenance) - Invoke

Remote action

Not urgent

Close Microsoft Teams (short maintenance) - Completed

Remote action

Not urgent

Reinstall Microsoft Teams - Invoke

Remote action

Not urgent

Reinstall Microsoft Teams - Completed

Remote action

Not urgent

Usage

To know more about how this dashboard should be used, please refer to the Usage Guide:

Usage guide: Micosoft Teams - Stability and compliance


Collaboration Experience

Live dashboards

Remote actions

Campaigns

Connections data

Last updated

#451: 2024.8-Overview of integration DOC

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