Grant Cloud App Security access to Microsoft Teams (Teams) to allow Cloud App Security to run advanced threat protection and data loss prevention scanning on files in protected teams.
Important
Important
Cloud App Security protects the Teams and Chat services in Microsoft Teams separately.
Cloud App Security scans files that employees share in team channels, which are stored in SharePoint.
If you have also granted Cloud App Security access to SharePoint Online, when the SharePoint site and the team corresponding to a file are selected as a policy target respectively, Cloud App Security applies policies for Microsoft Teams (Teams) to this site unless the site does not hit any policy for Microsoft Teams.
The steps outlined below detail how to grant access to Microsoft Teams (Teams) from Dashboard.

Procedure

  1. On the Dashboard screen, hover over Microsoft Teams and click Grant access.
    The Grant Access to Microsoft Teams screen appears.
  2. Click Click here at the end of Step 1.
    The Microsoft logon screen appears.
  3. Click Grant Permission.
  4. Specify your Microsoft 365 Global Administrator credentials and click Sign in.
    The Microsoft authorization screen appears.
  5. Click Accept to grant Cloud App Security permissions on teams in your organization.
  6. Go back to the Cloud App Security management console and click Done.
    Cloud App Security then updates data of the teams in your organization. The time required depends on how much data you have in teams.
  7. Hover over the notification icon in the upper-right corner of the management console.
    If the message "Microsoft Teams protected." appears on the Notifications screen, the access grant is successful.