With Office Chat, you as an administrator can easily disable/enable any device that has access to your network. With Office Chat User devices feature, each user that has connected via native Mobile apps to your domain is listed here. Their username, device type, device ID, last activity, and status is shown in this list. Network administrators can disable individual users at the device level and wipe out all of the network content on their device using the “Actions” drop-down menu.

To disable any device from the admin portal:

1. Login to Admin Portal from the web browser and navigate to ‘Security’ tab on the Left-Hand side Navigation menu
2. Here Click on the ‘User Devices’ Tab and search for the user whose device has to be disabled.
3. Once the users’ active devices are listed, please click on the drop-down button and click on ‘Disable Access’

To enable any device from the admin portal:

1. Login to Admin Portal from the web browser and navigate to ‘Security’ tab on the Left-Hand side Navigation menu
2. Here Click on the ‘User Devices’ Tab and search for the user whose devices has to be enabled.
3. If in case there are any disabled devices, please click on the drop-down button and click on ‘Enable Access’

MailChimp is an online email marketing service for managing contacts, sending emails, and tracking results of your teams email campaigns.

To integrate Office Chat with MailChimp:

Step 1:

In your Group, click on Configure Integrations in the Admin Tools. Please note: You need to be the admin to configure MailChimp for your team.

Step 2:

Enable MailChimp in the list of integrations.

Please note: If you don’t see MailChimp, please contact your domain administrator to enable it from ‘Admin Portal > Integrations > Services’ page.

Step 3:

In the MailChimp settings dialog, click on Authenticate with MailChimp to login into the MailChimp account and authorize Office Chat on MailChimp.

Then Select 1 or more of the MailChimp lists from which the events will be posted into this team. You will be required to select a minimum of 1 MailChimp list from the dropdown. Click the Save Settings button when you are done.

Setup instructions to follow on MailChimp side

Since Office Chat automatically does the webhook configuration once you have authenticated and connected the Office Chat account to MailChimp, there is no setup required on MailChimp side for this integration to work. It’s that easy!

In case your organization is already using Slack you can integrate the same inside teams in Office Chat to get real-time notification from Slack to Office Chat and vice-versa.

To integrate Slack with Office Chat:

1)  Ensure Slack is enabled in the Admin Portal. Then proceed with the configurations as shown in the figure below:

2. Navigate to ‘Groups’  and select the group that you want to integrate Slack with. Once you have selected the Group, click on the ‘More Tools’ icon (three dots) and select ‘Configure Integrations’

3. Click “Enable” besides Slack from the list of available integrations and you will be presented with a pop-up to Configure Slack in Office Chat.

4. Here’s a brief on each of the fields to configure the integration:

• Webhook URL: This is the URL that you will need paste into Slack outgoing webhooks integration, this cannot be modified and is required to be copied and pasted as is in Slack.
• Customize Name: Choose a username that messages from this integration will be posted as.
• Authenticate with Slack: Click to authenticate Slack in Office Chat to enable the integration, this is a mandatory step to configure the integration.
  

5. Go to your Slack team Integrations settings. Open it from Slack app menu or via direct URL https://yourdomain.slack.com/services. Select the Slack Channel you wan to integrate and then the gear along the top and Integration from the drop down.

6. Then create a new Outgoing webhook integration by searching for “Outgoing Webhooks” in the app directory then adding the same by clicking ‘Add Configuration’.

7. Once installed, scroll to “Integration Settings” and paste the Webhook URL from Office Chat into “URL(s)” and Save Settings.

8. Once done, please double check whether the Link is correct. Go back to the project and select Authenticate and Authorize from the following popup.

9. Once Authorized, confirm the success message and Save the Settings.

Now you should receive messages posted in Slack as feeds in Office Chat Group. Let’s take a look to exactly what that experience will look like.