WorkPoint Notifications in Microsoft Teams

To upload the WP365 Notifications app, follow these steps:

9. In the left side panel of the Microsoft Teams administration, expand the "Teams apps" section and select "Manage apps".

10. In the "Manage apps" page, open the "Actions" menu and select "Upload new app".

11. In the "Upload a custom app" pop-up, click the "Upload " button.

12. Select the WP365 Notifications app downloaded from the WorkPoint 365 administration and select "Open".

The app should now be uploaded and displayed in the list of apps (here we have searched for "wp365" to find it):

Next, we need to set up a setup policy which we can apply to select personnel in the organization:

13. In the left side menu of the Microsoft Teams administration, in the "Teams app" section select "Setup policies".
14. By default, Microsoft Teams contains two default setup policies which cannot  be deleted; the "Global (Org-wide default)" and "FirstLineWorker" policies.
15. In this instance, we will create a new setup policy. To do this, we click the "Add" button in the command bar.

16. At the top of the page, we provide a name and description for the new setup policy.
17. Next, we want to add the WP365 Notification app to the setup policy to ensure that users targeted by it will get the app installed automatically. Click the "Add apps" button.

18. In the right side panel, search for the WP365 Notifications app, hover over it and select "Add".

19. In the bottom of the right side panel, click the "Add" button.

The app should now appear in the list of installed apps for the new setup policy:

Next, we can ensure that the app is automatically pinned for users targeted by the new setup policy:

20. In the command bar of the "Pinned apps" section, click "Add apps".

21. In the right side panel, search for the WP365 Notifications app, hover over it and select "Add".

22. In the bottom of the right side panel, click the "Add" button.

The app should now appear in the list of pinned apps:

23. To save the new setup policy, we click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

The new setup policy should now appear in the list of setup policies:

Note that the WP365 Notifications app will be installed for all users targeted by the Setup Policy. This also means that the app will receive the following permissions for each user affected:

To assign users to a setup policy

23. Select the setup policy to which you want to assign users.
24. In the command bar, expand the "Manage users" menu and select "Assign users".

25. In the right side panel, search for and add the users which should be assigned to the setup policy. Here we have added three people from our organization.
26. To apply the settings and add the personnel to the setup policy, click the "Apply" button.

Before the personnel are added to the setup policy, you will see a confirmation dialogue:

27. Consider the dialogue text and click "Confirm" when you are ready.

To unassign personnel from a setup policy, follow these steps:

28. Select the setup policy from which you want to unassign one or more users.
29. In the command bar, expand the "Manage users" menu and select "Bulk unassign users".

30. In the "Unassign policies from users in bulk" page, select the setup policy and click "Unassign" in the command bar.

31. Consider the confirmation dialogue and click "Confirm" when ready in unassign the users from the setup policy.

To assign an Active Directory group to a setup policy, follow these steps:

32. In the "App setup policies" page, switch to "Group policy assignment".
33. To add an Active Directory group to a setup policy, click the "Add" button in the command bar.

34. In the right side panel, search for and select an Active Directory group.

35. Next, select a setup policy to apply to the selected group. Here we select the "New setup policy" which we created earlier.

36. In this instance we leave the "Select rank" setting at the default value of 1. If users in the selected group are part of any other groups with a policy assigned, those users will inherit the policy from the group with the highest rank.
37. To save the settings and apply the selected policy to the selected Active Directory group, click the "Apply" button.

38. Consider the confirmation dialogue text, and click "Confirm" when ready.

The configuration should now appear in the list of group policy assignments:

The WP365 Notifications app is used to display your WorkPoint notifications inside the Microsoft Teams application. It enables the user to view all their notifications, but it also enables notifications to appear in the activity feed of Microsoft Teams. Whenever a notification is received in WorkPoint, it will appear in the activity feed, as exemplified here:

Who will see the WP365 Notifications app in their Microsoft Teams application depends on how it is installed.

The app can be installed on an individual user bases where a single user installs it manually in their personal Microsoft Teams application. In that case, the app will appear only in that user's Microsoft Teams.

However, it is also possible to centrally deploy the WP365 Notifications app to multiple account within an organization through Microsoft Teams setup policies. In that case, all personnel targeted by the setup policy will see the WP365 Notifications app in their Microsoft Teams application.

Both of these methods of installing the WP365 Notifications app are described in this article.

While it is possible to install a WP365 Notifications app in your Microsoft Teams without you having access to a WorkPoint 365 solution, it will not be able to display anything for you, because the app itself is generated from and works for a specific WorkPoint 365 solution. Therefore, it does not make sense to install a WP365 Notifications app without access to a WorkPoint 365 solution.

Certainly! Depending on the method of installing the WP365 Notifications app, the uninstallation process differs. The two different methods are described in this article.

The notifications you have previously received and which are displayed in the activity feed in Microsoft Teams will persist in the feed after uninstalling the WP365 Notifications app. However, users will no longer be able to open the WP365 Notifications app and view their WorkPoint related notifications, which means that when the WorkPoint related notifications in the activity feed are pushed out by newer notifications from other sources, those WorkPoint related notifications will no longer be viewable in Microsoft Teams.

The WP365 Notifications app does not add any commands to Microsoft Teams.