Microsoft Teams admin approval

If you receive the message “Need admin approval,” you can work with your Microsoft Entra ID administrator to obtain it in 2 different ways:

Option 1: Connect Microsoft Teams in Airtable as Microsoft Entra ID admin

  • Request that your Microsoft Entra ID administrator to log in to Airtable and connect their Microsoft Teams account.

    • As part of the process, your Microsoft Entra ID administrator will be asked to approve the Airtable integration for use within your organization.

  • Users in your organization cannot connect their Microsoft Teams accounts to Airtable without requiring approval from the administrator. The administrator can remove their MS Teams account in Airtable after this approval flow is complete without affecting the approval.

Option 2: Approval via direct link

If your Microsoft Entra ID Administrator does not have an Airtable account, they can still approve the Airtable integration via a direct link.If your Microsoft Entra ID Administrator does not have an Airtable account, they can still approve the Airtable integration using a direct link.

To gain approval via direct link:

  1. Locate your organization’s tenant ID.

    1. In Microsoft Teams’s channel list, click on the “...” next to a channel in your organization and select “Get link to channel”. This will present you with a long URL that ends in something like &tenantId=XXX-XXX. The content after the “=” is the tenant ID. Here’s a video walkthrough.

    2. If you have access to your organization’s Azure Portal, your tenant ID can be found in the “Azure Active Directory” tab. Here’s a video walkthrough.

  2. Create a direct approval link modeled off of the following URL:.

    1. https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant-id} /adminconsent?client_id=e4df1407-746c-45a8-899b-dbbadccb1cc9

  3. Replace {tenant-id} with your organization’s tenant ID.

    1. Example result: https://login.microsoftonline.com/dd8659a7-215f-4e41-8302-62bb310dbf50/adminconsent?client_id=e4df1407-746c-45a8-899b-dbbadccb1cc9.

  4. Have you Microsoft Entra ID Administrator click Accept.

  • Maintain access to data you have given it access to: Allows Airtable to continue sending messages after completing the authorization flow.

  • Read all users' full profiles: required to obtain the user's name for display in Airtable and the list of Teams the current user is a member of for selection in Airtable.

  • Send channel messages: Allows Airtable to send messages in Microsoft Teams.

  • Read the names and descriptions of teams: Required to display a list of teams for selection in Airtable.

  • Read the names and descriptions of channels: Required to display a list of channels for selection in Airtable.