> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.exterview.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to Set Up Your Microsoft Teams Tenant for the Exterview Panel Bot

> Turn on recording and transcription, and grant the Exterview bot Graph access, in your organization's Microsoft Teams tenant.

**Core.** Before the Exterview bot can join, record, transcribe, and score a Panel or HR round in Microsoft Teams, your organization's Teams admin has to turn on recording and transcription, and grant the bot's application access to online meetings and transcripts.

## Turn on recording & transcription

In the **Teams Admin Center**, as your organization's Global or Teams admin, go to **Meetings → Meeting policies** (Global, or whichever policy your users are on) and set:

* **Recording** → On
* **Transcription** → On
* **Include speaker attribution** → On (this triggers a personal-data-exposure confirmation popup — accept it to continue)

<Frame>
  <img
    src="https://mintcdn.com/exterviewinc/qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5/images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/01.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5&q=85&s=83b5dceace9f1654b02495ad2d16d0c7"
    alt="Recording and transcription policy in the Teams Admin
Center"
    width="1380"
    height="589"
    data-path="images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/01.webp"
  />
</Frame>

## Grant the bot Application Access

This part isn't in the Teams Admin Center UI — it's PowerShell only, and assumes the recording/transcription policy above is already set.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Connect to the tenant">
    ```powershell theme={null}
    Connect-MicrosoftTeams
    ```

    <Frame>
      <img
        src="https://mintcdn.com/exterviewinc/qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5/images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/02.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5&q=85&s=a6a74bfc97245d7c025e5690e08b785e"
        alt="Connect-MicrosoftTeams in an admin PowerShell
session"
        width="800"
        height="59"
        data-path="images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/02.webp"
      />
    </Frame>

    <Warning>
      MicrosoftTeams module **v7.9.0** has a kernel32.dll crash on macOS.
      Downgrade to **5.9.0** if you hit it. Switching module versions requires
      a fully fresh terminal process — mixing versions in one session throws
      assembly-conflict errors.
    </Warning>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Verify recording & transcription programmatically">
    Don't assume the UI toggle persisted — check it explicitly:

    ```powershell theme={null}
    Get-CsTeamsMeetingConfiguration -Identity Global | Format-List EnableGraphTranscriptAccess, EnableAttributedTranscripts
    ```

    Both should read `True`.

    <Frame>
      <img
        src="https://mintcdn.com/exterviewinc/qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5/images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/03.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5&q=85&s=ec1cd8b4094dc226498570cc92a951cb"
        alt="Get-CsTeamsMeetingConfiguration output showing both flags as
True"
        width="1918"
        height="150"
        data-path="images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/03.webp"
      />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check for an existing Application Access Policy">
    ```powershell theme={null}
    Get-CsApplicationAccessPolicy
    ```

    <Frame>
      <img
        src="https://mintcdn.com/exterviewinc/qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5/images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/04.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=qwvgioLEiwsJj4T5&q=85&s=36770c476e77b67439be66664030704e"
        alt="Get-CsApplicationAccessPolicy output listing existing
policies"
        width="800"
        height="175"
        data-path="images/guides/modules/setup-teams-tenant/04.webp"
      />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create the policy, if none covers your app ids">
    ```powershell theme={null}
    New-CsApplicationAccessPolicy -Identity ExterviewPanelBotPolicy -AppIds @("a55446b7-43a9-43d7-89a9-87f48485bff2","<calling-app-id>") -Description "Exterview Panel Bot — app-only Graph access to online meetings"
    ```

    ```powershell theme={null}
    Grant-CsApplicationAccessPolicy -PolicyName ExterviewPanelBotPolicy -Global
    ```

    Gotchas:

    * `-AppIds` on `Set-CsApplicationAccessPolicy` replaces the whole list —
      always include every app id you want kept, not just the new one.
    * `-Global` has a real, sometimes multi-minute propagation delay. A blank
      result on `Get-CsOnlineUser -Identity <email> | Select-Object
      ApplicationAccessPolicy` right after granting is not proof of failure —
      sample 2-3 more users before concluding it didn't work.
    * `-Global` never overrides a user who already has an individual policy
      assigned.
    * If uncertain or time-pressured, grant directly to the specific
      organizer instead — this applies instantly, no propagation wait:

    ```powershell theme={null}
    Grant-CsApplicationAccessPolicy -PolicyName ExterviewPanelBotPolicy -Identity <organizer-email>
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>