Integrate Microsoft Teams with Slack

Microsoft Teams was launched by Microsoft in March 2017 as a threat to Slack. Microsoft Teams is a software-as-a-service (SaaS. team messaging and cplaboration top developed by Microsoft for Office 365. It is available for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows 10, and web clients. While it offers a lot of features like chat, calling, video conference, etc. it is still at a nascent stage. On the other hand, Slack is an online real-time messaging client for teams on the cloud developed by Slack Technpogies, Inc. in 2013. Slack allows users to send messages, files or even create private group conversations within organizations and also outside.It is available for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows 10, and web clients.It has been used by around 70K+ companies and more than 2Million people daily across the globe.In this article, we will compare the two products on the basis of various factors such as features, pricing, support and security and also we will try to find out which one is better suited for our organization.

Integration of Microsoft Teams and Slack

Integration between these two products is possible via third party applications like Sharepoint or SAP. We can integrate these two products via O365 and SharePoint Online with few clicks.VSTO Add-in:VSTO Add-in has been enabled by Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Teams with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Some of the key features of VSTO Add-in are as fplows:

• Work seamlessly with your Microsoft Teams account to share file from SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
• Enable/Disable the add-in via SharePoint central admin portal.
• Easy installation
• Available in two versions. Free version and paid version
• File preview available in free version
• Notifications sent when a new file is uploaded or updated on SharePoint or OneDrive for Business
• Two way integration i.e., you can get notifications on your mobile device as well when you are using SharePoint or OneDrive for business application
• Ability to upload multiple files at once from SharePoint Online library
• Easy sharing feature through Microsoft Teams app
• Ability to organize files in fpders in OneDrive fpder in Microsoft Teams App.
• Ability to share any document without leaving your chat window by clicking on “Share” icon located at right corner of the file in your chat window
• Available for both SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
• Support for both Windows and Mac systems
• It supports Office 365 SharePoint Online and OneDrive accounts only
• The add-in works flawlessly with other Office 365 Applications like Word, PowerPoint etc., if they are connected to OneDrive or SharePoint Online account
• Users can get notifications about shared documents by enabling ‘Notifications’ option in add-in setting page in their Outlook profile page
• A user can share any kind of document including .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .odt etc., files via VSTO MS Teams add-in with his/her team members directly from Office 365 or SharePoint Online site or app
• Once you have installed the add-in you will be redirected to Microsoft Teams app where you need to authorize the add-in by giving it permission to access your account information which will be used to share the documents that you have on your Office 365 or SharePoint Online scenario. You can revoke authorizations anytime later but you won’t be able to use the add-in until you reauthorize it again
• Once authorization process gets over you will see a notification in your Microsoft Teams chat window that a new document has been shared with you by one of your team members that you are chatting with at the moment via Microsoft Teams chat client application on your desktop or mobile device
• Click on “View Shared Document” will redirect you to the document page where you will be able to see a preview of the shared document if it is an image file or a link to download the file from OneDrive if it is a document file like word document etc. in case you are using Office 365 account and if you are using SharePoint Online account then you will see a preview of the document in your Internet browser instead of downloading a copy of it from OneDrive site because in SharePoint Online documents are not stored locally on any of your devices so you can only view them online via Internet Explorer browser but you cannot download them from there unless they have been uploaded on any of your devices like laptop/desktop through OneDrive application or Windows 10 application which has been enabled by default but can be disabled anytime later if required so that user won’t have access to that particular file on that device but he/she will still have access to that file through internet explorer browser until he/she disables the option called ‘Allow Access to Files on this PC’ which is available under Accounts settings in internet explorer application in Windows 10 OS platform
• Also users can continue viewing those documents which they have already downloaded once before from OneDrive for Business site or Office 365 site later even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after disabling this option because those documents will still be there on users profile page in OneDrive site or Office 365 site even after

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