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Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
Using Connections with Microsoft Teams
Enabling support for Microsoft Teams integration with Connections is an optional task. Enable this support only if your organization is using Microsoft Teams.
Enabling Connections to use the app registry service
Personal chats in Microsoft Teams (from the Connections business card, profile, and Important to Me bubble) require that Connections is enabled to make requests to the app registry service to discover the extensions that enable those integrations.

Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
- Connections Engagement Center
  Connections Engagement Center provides the corporate office, management, and workforce with a single user experience for all communications, as well as a state of the art enterprise social collaboration features and the possibility of adding custom applications. All this runs at the office and on all mobile devices, so the entire workforce – from CEO to intern – can access this most valuable tool regardless of where they are, what their role is, or what devices they prefer.
- Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
  Access and update your Connections content from other applications.
- Using the HCL Connections desktop plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™
  Use this plug-in to upload and work with files in HCL Connections from Microsoft™ Windows™ Explorer and Microsoft Office.
- Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
  Use HCL Connections for Mac to keep local files in sync with copies of those files on the server.
- Using the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office
  Use the plug-ins to share files and information between Microsoft™ Windows™ applications and HCL Connections or HCL Connections Cloud.
- Using Connections with Microsoft Teams
  Enabling support for Microsoft Teams integration with Connections is an optional task. Enable this support only if your organization is using Microsoft Teams.
  - Enabling app registry extensions for Microsoft Teams integration
    Extensions that can be loaded into app registry are available to enable chat with Microsoft Teams function as well as the Share with Microsoft Teams button on most every Connections page.
  - Enabling Connections to use the app registry service
    Personal chats in Microsoft Teams (from the Connections business card, profile, and Important to Me bubble) require that Connections is enabled to make requests to the app registry service to discover the extensions that enable those integrations.
  - Updating WebSphere to support single sign-on with Connections for Microsoft Teams
    Authentication between the Connections for Microsoft Teams app and the Connections server is handled using single sign-on (SSO). This way, as long as the user's email address in Microsoft Teams matches the email address of the Connections user, the user won't be prompted to log in to Connections.
  - Configuring an Azure app to support the Microsoft Teams app
    This task is accomplished using the Developer Portal within Microsoft Teams.
  - Setting up the Connections app for the Microsoft Teams client
- Using the HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook
  The power of Connections from your Outlook inbox. Use the Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook to work with Connections content from within your Outlook inbox.
- Using the HCL Connections community app for Microsoft Sharepoint
  As a Microsoft SharePoint administrator you can register the Sharepoint app with Microsoft Azure and edit its configuration file in HCL Connections to make it available for your organization.
- Using plug-ins from HCL Connections with other products
  Get help using the plug-ins that integrate the capabilities of HCL Connections with other products.

Enabling Connections to use the app registry service

Personal chats in Microsoft Teams (from the Connections business card, profile, and Important to Me bubble) require that Connections is enabled to make requests to the app registry service to discover the extensions that enable those integrations.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have enabled the app registry extensions for Microsoft Teams integration.

About this task

By default, Connections applications do not try to make requests to the app registry service to avoid unnecessary requests if the app registry service has not been deployed as part of a Component Pack installation.

Procedure

Locate the WAS_HOME\profiles\WAS_Profile\config\cells\Host_name\LotusConnections-config\LotusConnections-config.xml file.
Locate the sloc:serviceReference section where serviceName="extensionRegistry" in the file.
Check that both the enabled and ssl_enabled properties are true.

If they are not true, update the configuration file so the section looks as follows (where httpserver.domain.com is the host name used to connect to Connections):

<sloc:serviceReference bootstrapHost="admin_replace" bootstrapPort="admin_replace" clusterName="" enabled="true" serviceName="extensionRegistry" ssl_enabled="true">
    <sloc:href>
      <sloc:hrefPathPrefix>/appregistry</sloc:hrefPathPrefix>
      <sloc:static href="admin_replace" ssl_href="admin_replace"/>
      <sloc:interService href="admin_replace"/>
    </sloc:href>
  </sloc:serviceReference>

If you made changes, restart the server.

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