Connecting Microsoft Teams Beginner

Connect Microsoft Teams so your bot can work in it for you. This guide explains what that means, how to connect it in a few clicks, and practical things to try.

What you'll learn

What connecting Microsoft Teams lets your bot do
How to connect it step by step
How to stay in control and disconnect

Before you start

The Grok Bot app, installed and signed in. New? See where to download it and installing and signing in.
A Microsoft Teams account you can sign in to.

1. What Microsoft Teams is and why connect it

Microsoft Teams is Microsoft's work chat and meetings app. A connector is a link that lets your bot work inside an app for you, instead of you clicking around yourself. Once Microsoft Teams is connected, you can just ask in plain words and your bot does the work in Microsoft Teams. New to connectors? Read What is a connector first.

2. Connect Microsoft Teams

Open Grok Bot and click Connect apps in the sidebar. (Or just type "Connect Microsoft Teams" to your bot; it can show a Connect card right in the chat.)
Find Microsoft Teams in the list. If you can't find it, ask your bot; which connectors appear can depend on your account.
Click to connect. Your web browser opens Microsoft Teams's own sign-in page.
Sign in there and read what access it asks for, then approve. Your password goes to Microsoft Teams, never into the chat.
Come back to Grok Bot and test it with a simple request, like one of the ideas below.

Screenshot: The Connect apps list in the sidebar with Microsoft Teams highlighted.

Screenshot: Microsoft Teams's own sign-in or permission screen.

A work account may need IT approval before you can connect.

3. What your bot can do with it

You can ask it to search and read chats and channel messages.
You can ask it to send messages after you approve.

Exactly which actions are available depends on the connector's current tools. If you're not sure, ask: "What can you do with Microsoft Teams?"

4. Staying in control

A connected app is available to every bot on your account. Bots draft messages and changes for your approval, and risky actions are checked by Auto-review (see Safety and approvals). To cut access later, remove the connection on the Microsoft Teams side (Microsoft Learn: manage apps in Teams) or ask your bot how to disconnect it.

Ideas to try

Catch up.
Summarize today's messages in the Marketing channel.
Find a file mention.
Search my Teams chats for where someone shared the price list.
Quick note.
Draft a chat message to Sam saying I'll be 10 minutes late. Show me first.
Follow-ups.
List questions people asked me in Teams this week that I didn't answer.

Tips

Start with read-only requests (search, list, summarize) before asking for changes.
If you have more than one account, tell the bot which one to use.
If Microsoft Teams stops responding, ask your bot to check the connection. You may just need to sign in again.

Facts about the Grok Bot app come from Cursor's official Grok Bot documentation. Microsoft Teams details: Microsoft Learn: manage apps in Teams. Menus and services change; if something looks different, check the official docs or ask your bot.