Microsoft Teams Integration with WatchGuard CloudDR
Applies To: WatchGuard CloudDR
Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based collaboration platform that enables teams to communicate, collaborate, and share content in real-time. Teams provides a wide range of features and capabilities, such as instant messaging, video and audio conferencing, file sharing and collaboration, project management, and integration with other Microsoft and third-party applications and services. This guide describes how to integrate Teams as a standalone application with CloudDR.
This integration is not required if you have already integrated the same instance of Teams as part of a Microsoft 365 integration.
Available Features
- Misconfiguration Rules
- User Inventory
- Identity Rules
Prerequisites
To configure this integration, you must:
- Have a Microsoft Teams Essentials subscription or a Microsoft 365 Business Basic subscription or higher.
- Have a user account with Team Member and Owner permissions along with the Privileged Role Administrator, Global Reader, and Teams Administrator roles, or alternatively, the Global Administrator role. The user account must have these permissions:
| Scope | Use |
|---|---|
| Access Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business data as the signed in user | Read access to Teams settings and configurations |
| Read directory data | Read access to organization information, roles, role assignments, and third-party apps |
|
Read the names and descriptions of teams |
Read access to teams in the organization |
| Read the members of teams |
Read access to team members in the organization |
|
Read all users' full profiles |
Read access to detailed profiles for users |
| Read and query your audit log activities | Read access to audit logs for the organization |
| Read Reports | Read access to reports |
Configure the Teams Integration in CloudDR
Service Providers can configure integration in CloudDR for a single organization or for all of their managed organizations. If you select a managed Service Provider from Account Manager, you can configure integration for all organizations managed by the Service Provider.
Before you begin, select the account you want to configure integration for:
- To configure integration for all organizations, from Account Manager, select Overview.
- To configure integration for a single organization, from Account Manager, select the account you want to integrate the application in CloudDR.
To configure the Teams integration in CloudDR, from WatchGuard Cloud:
- Select Configure > CloudDR.
- Select Integrations > SaaS Services.
- (Service Providers) From the Select Integrations View drop-down list, select Add Integrations.

- In the Microsoft Teams widget, click Add.
- Click Start Integration.
- To give CloudDR access to your Organization inventory in Teams, in the Step 1– OAuth section, click Sign In with Microsoft Teams, and log in with the user account identified in the prerequisites.
- Click Next.
- To give CloudDR access to your Teams settings, in the Step 2– OAuth section, click Sign In with Microsoft Teams, and log in with the user account identified in the prerequisites.
CloudDR uses Microsoft Graph APIs and Microsoft Teams for deep integration, so CloudDR requests OAuth tokens for both services.
- Click Finish.