What’s needed to connect to Microsoft Outlook

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To successfully import calendar meetings and emails, you must:

  • Set up either a company wide connection, or a user-by-user connection

  • Set the data you want to give Gong access to:

    • calendar meetings and emails

    • calendar meetings only

  • Set which data will be imported to Gong

  • Set the team member’s data capture settings

Settings for integrating MS Office 365, including data access and import options.

Permissions required by Gong

Gong requires the following access for the following MS Graph API permission scopes:

Permissions

Mail.Read

Required for importing Office 365 emails. Used when import emails is enabled.

Calendars.Read

Calendars.Read.Shared

Required for importing Office 365 calendars and calendar events. Used when calendar import is enabled.

User.Read.All

User.Read

Required for retrieving Office 365 user IDs to use in user-specific API calls when importing emails, calendars, and photos.

Group.Read.All

Required for retrieving Office 365 group information for troubleshooting only.

OpenID Connect: openid

Required for user-by-user connections, so that Gong can view user profile data

OpenID Connect: email

Required for user-by-user connections, so that Gong can read the user’s primary email address

OpenID Connect: profile

Required for user-by-user connections, so that Gong can see  user’s basic profile such as name, picture, user name, email address

OpenID Connect: offline_access

Required for user-by-user connections. Enables Gong to view and update the data you’ve granted access to, even when you’re not actively using Office 365. This does not provide any additional permissions.