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Connecting Amazon Q Business to Microsoft Teams using APIs

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Connecting Amazon Q Business to Microsoft Teams using APIs - Amazon Q Business

You use the CreateDataSource action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application.

Then, you use the configuration parameter to provide a JSON blob that conforms the AWS-defined JSON schema.

For an example of the API request, see CreateDataSource in the Amazon Q API Reference.

Microsoft Teams configuration properties

The following provides information about important configuration properties required in the schema.

Configuration Description Type Required

connectionConfiguration

Configuration information for endpoint for the data source.

object

This property has the following sub-property: repositoryEndpointMetadata.

Yes

repositoryEndpointMetadata

The endpoint information for the data source.

object

This property has the following sub-property: tenantId.

Yes

tenantId

The Microsoft 365 tenant ID. You can find your tenant ID in the Properties of your Azure Active Directory Portal.

string

The string must be 36 characters long and in in the pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

Yes

repositoryConfigurations

Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings.

object

This property has the following sub-properties:

  • chatMessage

  • chatAttachment

  • channelPost

  • channelWiki

  • channelAttachment

  • meetingChat

  • meetingFile

  • meetingNote

  • calendarMeeting

Yes
  • chatMessage

  • chatAttachment

  • channelPost

  • channelWiki

  • channelAttachment

  • meetingChat

  • meetingFile

  • meetingNote

  • calendarMeeting

A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Microsoft Teams content to Amazon Q index field names.

object

These properties have the following sub-properties: indexFieldName, indexFieldType, dataSourceFieldName, and dateFieldFormat.

No

indexFieldName

The field name of your Microsoft Teams assets.

string

Yes

indexFieldType

The field type of your Microsoft Teams assets.

string

The allowed values are STRING, STRING_LIST, DATE, and LONG.

Yes

dataSourceFieldName

The data source field name of your Microsoft Teams assets.

string

Yes

dateFieldFormat

The date format of your Microsoft Teams assets.

string

Specify the date format in the form yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'

No

additionalProperties

Additional configuration options for your content in your data source.

object

This property has the following sub-properties.

  • isCrawlAcl

  • isCrawlChatMessage

  • isCrawlChatAttachment

  • isCrawlChannelPost

  • isCrawlChannelAttachment

  • isCrawlChannelWiki

  • isCrawlCalendarMeeting

  • isCrawlMeetingChat

  • isCrawlMeetingFile

  • isCrawlMeetingNote

  • startCalendarDateTime

  • endCalendarDateTime

  • fieldForUserId

  • paymentModel

  • maxFileSizeInMegaBytes

  • inclusionTeamNameFilter

  • exclusionTeamNameFilter

  • inclusionChannelNameFilter

  • exclusionChannelNameFilter

  • inclusionFileNamePatterns

  • exclusionFileNamePatterns

  • inclusionFileTypePatterns

  • exclusionFileTypePatterns

  • inclusionUserEmailFilter

Yes

isCrawlAcl

Specify true to crawl access control information from documents.
Note

Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. See Authorization for more details.

boolean

No

maxFileSizeInMegaBytes

Specify the maximum single file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB.

string

No

fieldForUserId

Specify the field to use for UserId for ACL crawling.

string

No
  • isCrawlChatMessage

  • isCrawlChatAttachment

  • isCrawlChannelPost

  • isCrawlChannelAttachment

  • isCrawlChannelWiki

  • isCrawlCalendarMeeting

  • isCrawlMeetingChat

  • isCrawlMeetingFile

  • isCrawlMeetingNote

Specify true to index this content in your Microsoft Teams data source.

boolean

No
  • inclusionTeamNameFilter

  • inclusionChannelNameFilter

  • inclusionFileNamePatterns

  • inclusionFileTypePatterns

  • inclusionUserEmailFilter

A list of regular expression patterns to include specific content in your Microsoft Teams data source. Content that matches the patterns are included in the index. Content that doesn't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If any content matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index.

array (string)

No
  • exclusionTeamNameFilter

  • exclusionChannelNameFilter

  • exclusionFileNamePatterns

  • exclusionFileTypePatterns

A list of regular expression patterns to exclude specific content in your Microsoft Teams data source. Content that matches the patterns are excluded from the index. Content that doesn't match the patterns are included in the index. If any content matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index.

array (string)

No
  • startCalendarDateTime

  • endCalendarDateTime

You can choose to configure a startCalendarDateTime and endCalendarDateTime parameters so that the Microsoft Teams connector crawls content based on a specific date range.

string

Specify the date in the form ^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}Z$)

No

paymentModel

Specifies what type of payment model to use with your Teams data source. Model A payment models are restricted to licensing and payment models that require security compliance. Model B payment models are suitable for licensing and payment models that don't require security compliance.

string

Valid values are A, B, and Evaluation Mode.

No

syncMode

Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents.

string

You can choose between the following options:

  • Use FORCED_FULL_CRAWL to freshly re-crawl all content and replace existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use FULL_CRAWL to incrementally crawl only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use CHANGE_LOG to incrementally crawl only new and modified content each time your data source syncs with your index.

Yes

secretARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your Microsoft Teams.

string

The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys:

{ "clientId": String, "clientSecret": String }
Yes

type

The type of data source. Specify MSTEAMS as your data source type.

string

Yes

enableIdentityCrawler

true to activate identity crawler.Crawling identity information on users and groups with access to specific documents is useful for user context filtering. Search results are filtered based on the user or their group access to documents.

Note

Amazon Q Business crawls identity information from your data source by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to. For more information, see Identity crawler.

boolean

No

version

The version of this template that's currently supported.

string

No

Microsoft Teams JSON schema

The following is the Microsoft Teams JSON schema:

{ "type": "object", "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "pattern": "MSTEAMS" }, "syncMode": { "type": "string", "enum": ["FORCED_FULL_CRAWL", "FULL_CRAWL", "CHANGE_LOG"] }, "secretArn": { "type": "string", "minLength": 20, "maxLength": 2048 }, "enableIdentityCrawler": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "connectionConfiguration": { "type": "object", "properties": { "repositoryEndpointMetadata": { "type": "object", "properties": { "tenantId": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$", "minLength": 36, "maxLength": 36 } }, "required": ["tenantId"] } }, "required": ["repositoryEndpointMetadata"] }, "repositoryConfigurations": { "type": "object", "properties": { "chatMessage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "chatAttachment": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE", "LONG"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "channelPost": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "channelWiki": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE", "LONG"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "channelAttachment": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE", "LONG"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "meetingChat": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "meetingFile": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE", "LONG"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "meetingNote": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] }, "calendarMeeting": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "DATE"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] } } }, "additionalProperties": { "type": "object", "properties": { "isCrawlAcl": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": { "type": "string" }, "fieldForUserId": { "type": "string" }, "paymentModel": { "type": "string", "enum": ["A", "B", "Evaluation Mode"] }, "inclusionTeamNameFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "exclusionTeamNameFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "inclusionChannelNameFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "exclusionChannelNameFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "inclusionFileNamePatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "exclusionFileNamePatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "inclusionFileTypePatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "exclusionFileTypePatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "inclusionUserEmailFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "isCrawlChatMessage": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlChatAttachment": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlChannelPost": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlChannelAttachment": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlChannelWiki": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlCalendarMeeting": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlMeetingChat": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlMeetingFile": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "isCrawlMeetingNote": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "startCalendarDateTime": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}Z$" }, { "type": "string", "pattern": "" } ] }, "endCalendarDateTime": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}Z$" }, { "type": "string", "pattern": "" } ] }, "enableDeletionProtection": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ], "default": false }, "deletionProtectionThreshold": { "type": "string", "default": "15" } }, "required": [] }, "version": { "type": "string", "anyOf": [ { "pattern": "1.0.0" } ] }, "required": [ "type", "syncMode", "secretArn", "connectionConfiguration", "repositoryConfigurations", "additionalProperties" ] } }

Microsoft Teams JSON schema example

The following is the Microsoft Teams JSON schema example:

{ "type": "MSTEAMS", "syncMode": "FULL_CRAWL", "secretArn": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:my-teams-secret", "enableIdentityCrawler": "true", "connectionConfiguration": { "repositoryEndpointMetadata": { "tenantId": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000" } }, "repositoryConfigurations": { "chatMessage": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "message_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "chatAttachment": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "attachment_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "channelPost": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "post_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "channelWiki": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "wiki_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "channelAttachment": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "attachment_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "meetingChat": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "meeting_chat_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "meetingFile": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "meeting_file_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "meetingNote": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "meeting_note_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] }, "calendarMeeting": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "calendar_meeting_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] } }, "additionalProperties": { "isCrawlAcl": "true", "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": "50", "fieldForUserId": "user_id", "paymentModel": "A", "inclusionTeamNameFilter": ["TeamA", "TeamB"], "exclusionTeamNameFilter": ["TeamC"], "inclusionChannelNameFilter": ["Channel1", "Channel2"], "exclusionChannelNameFilter": ["Channel3"], "inclusionFileNamePatterns": ["*.docx", "*.pdf"], "exclusionFileNamePatterns": ["*.tmp"], "inclusionFileTypePatterns": ["image/png", "image/jpeg"], "exclusionFileTypePatterns": ["application/octet-stream"], "inclusionUserEmailFilter": ["user@example.com"], "isCrawlChatMessage": "true", "isCrawlChatAttachment": "true", "isCrawlChannelPost": "true", "isCrawlChannelAttachment": "true", "isCrawlChannelWiki": "true", "isCrawlCalendarMeeting": "true", "isCrawlMeetingChat": "true", "isCrawlMeetingFile": "true", "isCrawlMeetingNote": "true", "startCalendarDateTime": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z", "endCalendarDateTime": "2023-12-31T23:59:59Z", "enableDeletionProtection": "false", "deletionProtectionThreshold": "15" } }
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