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My team is driving the adoption of MS Teams across our organisation. Currently, only a handful of Teams Apps are activated (all of which are Microsoft ones). I want more to be activated but the 365 Admins within IT are very risk-averse to any third party applications of any nature with whom we don't have a contract with. So e.g. the Teams YouTube app has been turned away because of fear that YouTube will be able to access "sensitive" information about the members of Teams the app is added to.
The small print on every Teams App is pretty generic, how can I reassure my IT department that third-party apps are safe to activate?
Hi Mary. Microsoft run a compliance program to make sure third-party apps have been vetted. Here's the third-party certification program. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-app-certification/overview
The best way to test and enable is to publish apps to a small group of people using policies. Evaluate an app. Run your own testing to confirm it fits the need.