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Use app setup policies to pin and auto-install Yeeflow teams app for users
Use app setup policies to pin and auto-install Yeeflow teams app for users

Automatically pin and install Yeeflow app in Teams for users with app setup policies, ensuring easy access and team collaboration.

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As a Microsoft Teams admin, you use app setup policies to install and pin Yeeflow app to Teams. Pinning helps promote adoption of and provide quick access to the Yeeflow app in your organization.

  • Pin apps: App setup policies let you choose apps to pin, set the order the apps show up for your users in the Teams app bar or the compose message area. Admins can also control whether the users can pin their own apps or not.

  • Install apps: App setup policies let you install the allowed apps on behalf of users when they start Teams and during meetings.

The following built-in app setup policies are available in the Microsoft Teams admin center, by default:

  • Global (Org-wide default): This default policy applies to all users in your organization unless you assign another policy. Edit the global policy to pin apps that are most important for your users.

  • FirstlineWorker: This policy is for Frontline Worker. The policy cannot be customized. You can assign it to Frontline Workers in your organization.


Pin Yeeflow Teams app

Pinning the Yeeflow Teams app displays the app in the app bar in Teams client. Admins can pin app and they can allow users to pin. Pinning is a used to highlight this app that are needed the most by users and promote ease of access.

Admins can pin the Yeeflow teams app via an app setup policy. The app that are pinned by admins get automatically installed for the users for whom the app is allowed. Users can't uninstall by themselves .

The Yeeflow Teams app will be pinned to the app bar on the left side of the Teams desktop client and at the bottom of the Teams mobile clients.

To pin apps using an app setup policy, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to Teams admin center and access Teams apps > Setup policies.

2. Select the "+ Add" button. Enter a name and description for the policy. Optionally, turn on User pinning to allow users to pin apps and change the order of the pinned apps.

3. Under Pinned apps, select Add apps.

4. In the Add pinned apps pane, search for the apps you want to add, and then select Add.

5. Select Add.

6. Under the App bar or Messaging extensions, arrange the apps in the order that you want the apps to appear in Teams client.

7. Select Save.


Install Yeeflow Teams app

Using an app setup policy, an admin can achieve the following tasks:

  • Install apps for users in their personal Teams environment.

  • Install apps for users as messaging extensions.

The users can install Yeeflow Teams app on their own if the app permission policy lets them install it and the app is allowed by the Teams admin. If the app is blocked, then the users can request admin approval.

To install Yeeflow Teams app using an app setup policy, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to Teams admin center and access Teams apps > Setup policies.

2. Select Add.

3. Provide a name and description for the policy.

4. Under Installed apps, select Add apps.

5. In the Add installed apps pane, search"Yeeflow". You can also filter apps by app permission policy.

6. Select Add.


Manage app setup policies

You manage app setup policies in the Microsoft Teams admin center. Use the global (Org-wide default) policy or create and assign custom policies. Users get the global policy. If you create a custom policy, it overrides the global policy. Global admin or Teams service admin can manage these policies.

You edit the settings in the global policy to include the apps that you want. To customize Teams for different groups of users in your organization, create and assign one or more custom policies.


Edit app setup policy

You can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to edit a policy, including the global (Org-wide default) policy and custom policies that you create. After you edit or assign a policy, it can take a few hours for changes to take effect.

1. Sign in to Teams admin center and access Teams apps > Setup policies.

2. Choose the policy you want to edit and then select Edit.

3. Make the changes that you want.

4. Select Save.


Assign a custom policy in app setup policy to users and groups

To know how to assign policies to your users and to groups, see how to assign policies to users and groups.

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