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Microsoft Teams to Namely integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Microsoft Teams and Namely in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Microsoft Teams and Namely

Keep the people, teams, and status that Microsoft Teams and Namely share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in Microsoft Teams keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Namely is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Chats & Chat Messages, Team Members & Users, Online Meetings, Tabs & Installed Apps in Microsoft Teams with Profile Fields, Events, Profiles, Job Titles in Namely bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Namely creates or updates the matching user in Microsoft Teams within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Microsoft Teams captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Namely in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Notify an ops channel when a sync detects failed or conflicting records that need review.
  • 02 Sync team membership from HR or identity systems so channels match the org chart.
  • 03 Map Job Titles and Job Tiers into a warehouse dimension table so leveling and seniority stay consistent across HR, finance, and BI reporting.
  • 04 Push Groups and Teams (departments, locations, team categories) into downstream apps to keep org structure and reporting lines aligned.

Common sync patterns

Org and team structure kept current

Department, team, and reporting-line changes from Namely keep the groups, queues, or projects in Microsoft Teams assigned to the right people.

Where Microsoft Teams routes or assigns work by person: assignments follow the org

When someone changes teams or managers in Namely, the queues, ownership, or approvals in Microsoft Teams update to match, so work reaches whoever holds the role now.

Onboarding: access ready on day one

A new hire recorded in Namely creates the matching user in Microsoft Teams with the right team and manager already set, so people can start working without waiting on a provisioning ticket.

What you can sync between Microsoft Teams and Namely

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Microsoft Teams objects Namely objects How this pairing syncs
Teams Team containers provisioned or read to mirror org and project structure. Teams Teams and team categories a Profile belongs to; read and written for org-chart and provisioning workflows. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Tabs & Installed Apps App configuration read to audit or provision team workspaces. Events Home-feed items such as announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, and new arrivals; typically read-only into comms tools. Tabs & Installed Apps is specific to Microsoft Teams and Events to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Channels Channel targets used for routing synced notifications and updates. Profiles The core employee record (personal, job, contact, and compensation fields); synced two-way via GET/POST/PUT with updated_at driving incremental polling. Channels is specific to Microsoft Teams and Profiles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Channel Messages Posted messages read for archiving or written to broadcast record changes. Job Titles Job title definitions; read and written so titles stay aligned with an HRIS, directory, or reporting dimension. Channel Messages is specific to Microsoft Teams and Job Titles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Chats & Chat Messages 1:1 and group chat content read under protected-API access for compliance use. Job Tiers Leveling hierarchy grouping zero-to-many Job Titles; read to map seniority into warehouse dimension tables. Chats & Chat Messages is specific to Microsoft Teams and Job Tiers to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Team Members & Users Membership synced with identity, HR, or CRM ownership data. Groups Departments and locations that organize Profiles; synced to keep org structure aligned with a warehouse or IdP. Team Members & Users is specific to Microsoft Teams and Groups to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Microsoft Teams and Namely

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Microsoft Teams Namely Sub-second propagation

DetectionMicrosoft Teams notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Graph change notifications (webhooks) for messages and membership.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Namely through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Namely Microsoft Teams Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Microsoft Teams through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Microsoft Teams ⇄ Namely

Connect Microsoft Teams and Namely for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Microsoft Teams–Namely connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Microsoft Teams or Namely instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Microsoft Teams or Namely data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Microsoft Teams or Namely record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Microsoft Teams ⇄ Namely sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Microsoft Teams and Namely.

How the Microsoft Teams and Namely connectors work

Microsoft Teams

Integration surface
REST API (Microsoft Graph)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via Microsoft Entra ID; reading message content at scale requires Microsoft-approved protected-API access
Change detection
Graph change notifications (webhooks) for messages and membership; delta queries on some resources
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks

Namely

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
Change detection
No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
How it works

How to connect Microsoft Teams to Namely — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Microsoft Teams and Namely with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Microsoft Teams connected
    Namely connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Microsoft Teams and Namely objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Microsoft Teams ⇄ Namely
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Microsoft Teams Namely
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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