Microsoft Teams Integration
Connect PushPulse to Microsoft Teams to deliver alerts, status updates, and form submission notifications directly to your team's channels.
How It Works
When an alert is triggered in PushPulse, a message is posted to any Teams channels you've configured for delivery. As the incident evolves, status updates, notes, and all clears are automatically threaded under the original alert message — keeping communication organized and easy to follow.
Form submissions can also be configured to notify Teams channels, giving your team real-time visibility into incoming reports.
Setup Overview
Getting Teams connected involves two steps:
Authorize the PushPulse app — connect your Microsoft Teams organization via OAuth
Install the PushPulse bot in Teams — an admin installs the app package and adds it to your desired teams
Configure delivery — attach channels to alert templates, individual alerts, or forms
Step 1: Authorize the Teams App
In PushPulse, navigate to Manage → Integrations → Microsoft Teams and click Connect. You'll be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft account and grant PushPulse permission to connect to your organization.
You must have sufficient Microsoft 365 permissions to authorize third-party app integrations, or work with an admin who does.
Step 2: Install the PushPulse Bot in Teams
This step requires a Microsoft Teams admin. The PushPulse bot must be uploaded to your organization's app catalog before it can be added to any team or channel.
Open Microsoft Teams and go to Apps
Click Manage your apps
Click Upload an app
Select Upload an app to your org's app catalog
Upload the PushPulse app package provided by your PushPulse administrator
Once uploaded, add PushPulse to your desired teams
Note: Uploading to the org's app catalog makes the bot available across your organization. Individual team owners can then add it to their teams, or an admin can deploy it broadly.
After installation, you can send a test message from the integration page in PushPulse to confirm delivery is working before configuring live alerts.
Step 3: Configure Delivery
Notification Templates
To deliver alerts to Teams at the template level — so every alert created from that template notifies the same channel(s) automatically:
Go to Alert Templates and open or create a template
In the Delivery section, select one or more Teams channels
Save the template
Alerts created from this template will automatically notify the selected channels when triggered.
Individual Notifications
You can also select Teams channels when composing a new alert:
Start composing an alert
In the Delivery section, select one or more Teams channels
Send the alert
This is useful for one-off alerts where broader or different notification is needed beyond a template's default configuration.
Forms
To send a Teams notification when a form is submitted:
Go to Forms and open or create a form
In the form settings, locate the Send submission notification section
Select one or more Teams channels to notify on submission
Save the form
The notification will be sent to the configured channel(s) each time the form is submitted.
What Gets Sent to Teams
Alert triggered
New message posted to configured channel(s)
Status update
Threaded reply under the original alert message
Note added
Threaded reply under the original alert message
All clear issued
Threaded reply under the original alert message
Form submitted
New message posted to configured channel(s)
Troubleshooting
I don't see any channels available to select. Confirm the PushPulse bot has been installed and added to your teams by a Microsoft Teams admin. Channels only become available for delivery after the bot is present in the team.
The app upload option isn't available. Your Microsoft Teams organization may restrict custom app uploads. A Teams admin will need to enable this in the Teams admin center under Teams apps → Setup policies, or perform the upload on your behalf.
Test message didn't arrive. Verify that the PushPulse bot was successfully added to the target team, not just uploaded to the catalog. Open the team in Teams and confirm PushPulse appears under Apps for that team.
Alerts aren't being delivered to Teams. Verify that (1) the Teams integration is authorized in PushPulse, (2) the PushPulse bot is installed in the target team, and (3) the channel is selected in the alert template, individual alert, or form configuration.
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