Please follow steps mentioned in this guide to configure CloudMonitor FinOps Teams bot.

Navigate to[Azure Active Directory &gt; App Registrations](https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/ActiveDirectoryMenuBlade/~/RegisteredApps), and click your CloudMonitor Service Principal by name or ClientId under the "All applications" tab.

On the side menu, under Manage, click **"API permissions"** and then click **"Add a permission"**.

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Click "Your application needs to access the API as the signed-in user."

Your application needs to access the API as the signed-in user.

Click the "Search box" field. and search for,

1. [[User.Read]]
2. [[Channel.ReadBasic.All]]
3. [[Team.ReadBasic.All]]

And tick them

Permission assignments should be visible here.

There are few other permissions also required, please click on this button

Your application runs as a background service or daemon without a signed-in user.

Click the "Search box" field. and search for each below and tick them,

1. **[[Team.ReadBasic.All]]**
2. **[[TeamsActivity.Send]]**
3. **[[Chat.ReadBasic.All]]**
4. **[[User.Read.All]]**
5. **[[Channel.ReadBasic.All]]**
6. **[[AppCatalog.Read.All]]**
7. **[[TeamsAppInstallation.ReadForUser.All]]**
8. **[[TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteForUser.All]]**

Click "Add permissions" after selecting all the permissions

Click "Grant admin consent for ...". This action requires a user with Admin rights.

Next step is to download the CloudMonitor Teams bot manifest file

Navigate to Admin App and authenticate with your account

Click on the profile button then Click "Account"

Click "Download CloudMonitor Bot", then manifest file will be downloaded to your personal computer

Next step is to add the CloudMonitor Team bot to your Teams account using the downloaded manifest file

Next, click on this button - Admin privileges are required for this step. If you are not an admin, please follow the next step and ask your admin to complete the approval.

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Then select the downloaded zip file in step no. 18 and upload it here.

After it is successfully uploaded, you will see the CloudMonitor FinOps Bot here. It will be under "Build for your org" section. Please click on that.

Now CloudMonitor Finops Bot is successfully installed in your Teams environment. To activate the bot you will need to send a message to that so it will get activated.

Now you will receive audit trails, budget notifications, recommendations and cost anomalies via the Teams Bot

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