The user who creates the Slack eDiscovery connector must be assigned the Data Connector Admin role. Roles in the Security & Compliance Center It's also recommended that you have automated user provisioning in your Slack organization configured to use single sign-on (SSO). You use these credentials to sign into this account when you create the data connector.
Obtain the username and password for your organization's Slack enterprise account.
For more information, see Types of roles in Slack. The user who creates the data connector must be assigned the Org owners application role in their Slack organization. For more information, see Slack subscriptions and features. Your organization needs the Enterprise Grid subscription for Slack. A subfolder in the Inbox folder named Slack eDiscovery is created in the user mailboxes and the chat message items are imported to that folder. The connector imports the converted chat messages to the mailboxes of specific users. The data connector also converts the contents of a chat message to an email message format. Your organization works with Slack to set up and configure a Slack workspace.Īfter the data connector is set up, messages from your organization's Slack workspaces are copied to user mailboxes in Microsoft 365.
The following overview explains the process of using a Microsoft data connector to archive the Slack data in Microsoft 365. If you’d like to participate in the preview, please reach out to the team at Overview of archiving Slack eDiscovery data Using a Slack eDiscovery data connector to import and archive data in Microsoft 365 can help your organization stay compliant with government and regulatory policies. After the Slack data is imported, you can apply compliance solutions, such as Litigation hold, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium), Communication compliance, and retention settings to the Slack content. The data connector pulls data from the Slack API, converts it to an email message format, and then imports those items to user mailboxes in Microsoft 365. The Slack eDiscovery data connector provided by Microsoft helps you to import and archive instant messaging data (such as messages, attachments, links, and revisions) from your organization's Slack workspaces to Microsoft 365.