Setting Up a Microsoft Teams REST Connection Manager
The REST Connection Manager is an SSIS connection manager that can be used to establish connections and facilitate data integration with REST based APIs and services such as Microsoft Teams, among many more.
Integration for Microsoft Teams is enabled by the following two components:
To add a new connection, right-click the Connection Manager area in your Visual Studio project, and choose "New Connection..." from the context menu. You will be prompted the "Add SSIS Connection Manager" window. Select the "REST (KingswaySoft)" item to add a new REST Connection Manager.
The REST Connection Manager contains the following pages of configuration.
- General
- Advanced Settings
- Custom Header
General Page
The General page allows you to specify connection properties and login credentials for the Microsoft Teams REST service:
- Service Name
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The REST service that will be connected to.
- API Throttle Rate
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The API Throttling Rate will limit the number of requests that can be sent per second.
- Authentication Mode
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The Authentication Mode option allows you to specify the authentication mode when working with Microsoft Teams. Available options are:
- Authorization Code
- Client Credentials
- Certificate
- Authorization Code
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- Generate Token File
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This button opens a dialogue box in order to sign in to your instance to generate a new Token.
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- Tenant ID: The Tenant ID option allows you to specify the unique ID that identifies the tenant you are connecting to.
- Client ID: The Client ID option allows you to specify the unique ID which identifies the application making the request.
- Client Secret: The Client Secret option allows you to specify the client secret belonging to your app.
- Redirect URL: The Redirect URL option allows you to specify the Redirect URL to complete the authentication process.
- Scope: Allows you to set the scopes required for your app.
- Use Default Browser to Sign In: When this option is checked the Sign In and Authorize button will open your default web browser to complete the OAuth authentication. When this option is unchecked, the Sign In and Authorize button will complete the entire OAuth authentication process inside the toolkit.
- Sign In and Authorize: This button allows you to log into the service endpoint and authorize your app to generate a token.
- Path To Token File
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This option allows you to enter the path to the token file on the file system.
- Token File Password
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The password to the token file.
- Client Credentials:
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- Tenant ID
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The Tenant ID option allows you to specify the unique ID that identifies the tenant you are connecting to.
- Client ID
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The ClientID option allows you to specify the unique ID that identifies the application making the request.
- Client Secret
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The Client Secret option allows you to specify the client secret belonging to your app.
- Certificate:
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- Tenant ID
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The Tenant ID option allows you to specify the unique ID that identifies the tenant you are connecting to.
- Client ID
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The Client ID option allows you to specify the unique ID that identifies the application making the request.
- Certificate Location
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Allows you to specify the location of the certificate that will be used. There are two options available:
- Store
- File System
- Certificate Thumbprint
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Allows you to specify the thumbprint of the client certificate from the Certificate Store. Click the ellipses button to browse and select a certificate for the user's store. This option is available when you choose Store as Certificate Location.
- Certificate Chooser (...)
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Click on the ellipsis button to open the certificate choose window.
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- Path to Certificate
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Provide the path to the certificate file to use for authentication. Click the ellipses button to browse their file system for the certificate. This option is available when you choose File System as Certificate Location.
Note: The component supports Azure Blob Shared Access Signature (SAS) URL in the certificate path. -
Advanced Settings Page
- Proxy Mode
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The Proxy Mode option allows you to specify how you want to configure the proxy server setting. There are three options available:
- No Proxy
- Auto-detect (Using system-configured proxy)
- Manual
- Proxy Server
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Using the Proxy Server option allows you to specify the name of the proxy server for the connection.
- Port
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The Port option allows you to specify the port number of the proxy server for the connection.
- Username (Proxy Server Authentication)
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The Username option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user account.
- Password (Proxy Server Authentication)
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The Password option (under Proxy Server Authentication) allows you to specify the proxy user's password.
Note: The Proxy Password is not included in the connection manager's ConnectionString property by default. This is by design for security reasons. However, you can include it in your ConnectionString if you want to parameterize your connection manager. The format would be ProxyPassword=myProxyPassword; (make sure you have a semicolon as the last character). It can be anywhere in the ConnectionString.
- Timeout
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The number of seconds requests should wait before timing out.
- Retry on Intermittent Errors
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The retry on intermittent errors option determines if requests will be retried when there is an error. If this option is checked, requests will be retried up to 3 times.
- Ignore Certificate Errors
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This option can be used to ignore those SSL certificate errors when connecting to Mailjet servers.
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Warning: Enabling the "Ignore Certificate Errors" option is generally NOT recommended, particularly for production instances. Unless there is a strong reason to believe the connection is secure, such as the network communication is only happening in an internal infrastructure, this option should be unchecked for best security.
Custom Headers Page
The Custom Headers page will allow you to set the Header Name and Header Value. You may select the green icon to add another row, and the red icon to remove an existing header you have configured.