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Microsoft Teams connector overview - Amazon Q Business

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Microsoft Teams connector overview

The following table shows the Amazon Q Business Microsoft Teams connector features and capabilities.

Category Feature Latest Connector Legacy Connector
Security Authentication type OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow
Authentication credentials
  • Microsoft Teams Client ID

  • Microsoft Teams Client secret

  • Microsoft Teams Client ID

  • Microsoft Teams Client secret

Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling. Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling Yes Yes
VPC No Yes
Customer Managed Key (CMK) support No Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No Yes
Entities Chat messages, Channel posts Yes. The following entities are supported:
  • Chat messages

  • Chat attachments

  • Channel posts

  • Channel file attachments

  • Wiki

  • Meeting chats

  • Meeting details

  • Meeting notes

  • Meeting files

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.

Field mappings No Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Only Date range Yes. The following filters are supported:
  • Include/exclude using user email

  • Include/exclude using team name

  • Include/exclude using channel name

  • Include/exclude using file name

  • Include/exclude using file type

  • Chat message

  • Chat attachment

  • Channel post

  • Channel attachment

  • Channel wiki

  • Calendar meeting

  • Meeting chat

  • Meeting file

  • Meeting note

Sync mode Full sync only Supports full and incremental sync