Microsoft Teams

The Lyftron Provider for  Microsoft Teams offers the most natural way to access Microsoft Teams data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Microsoft Teams data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Microsoft Teams data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to Microsoft Teams.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Microsoft Teams,Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your Microsoft Teams connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click Microsoft Teams for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Microsoft Teams connection with Lyftron.

"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=MyApplicationId;OAuthClientSecret=MySecretKey;CallbackURL=http://localhost:33333;"

 

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	My OAuthClientId	Required
OAuthClientSecret	My SecretKey	Required
Url	Your Url	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Microsoft Teams connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for Microsoft Teams models entities in the Microsoft Teams API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.

Tables

The Lyftron Provider for Microsoft Teams models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your Microsoft Teams store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.

Views

Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views.

Name	Type	Description
Apps	Tables	Apps table for MSTeams data provider.
Channels	Tables	Channels table for MSTeams data provider.
GroupMembers	Tables	GroupMembers table for MSTeams data provider.
GroupOwners	Tables	GroupOwners table for MSTeams data provider.
Schedules	Tables	Schedules table for MSTeams data provider.
SchedulingGroups	Tables	SchedulingGroups table for MSTeams data provider.
Shifts	Tables	Shifts table for MSTeams data provider.
Teams	Tables	Teams table for MSTeams data provider.
TeamsInstalledApps	Tables	TeamsInstalledApps table for MSTeams data provider.
TeamTabs	Tables	TeamTabs table for MSTeams data provider.
TimeOffReasons	Tables	TimesOffReasons table for MSTeams data provider.
TimesOff	Tables	TimesOff table for MSTeams data provider.
Groups	Views	Groups table for MSTeams data provider.
Users	Views	Users table for MSTeams data provider.