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With the Microsoft Teams integration, Rallly creates a Teams meeting on your Microsoft account at the moment you finalize a poll. The join link goes into the event, the calendar invite and the confirmation emails, so participants never wait for a link to follow.
Microsoft Teams meeting links require a Pro subscription on rallly.co. Connecting your account works on every plan, but choosing Microsoft Teams as the video call for a poll is a Pro feature.

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How it works

  1. You connect your Microsoft work or school account once, from your settings.
  2. When you create a poll, you choose Microsoft Teams as the video call. The poll shows “Microsoft Teams” to participants while voting is open; there is no link yet.
  3. When you finalize the poll, Rallly creates a Teams meeting for the chosen time on your Microsoft account and attaches the join link to the event.
The meeting is created on the Microsoft account you connected, so it follows your organization’s Teams meeting policies, such as the lobby and who can present. Rallly does not change those settings.

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Requirements

  • A Microsoft work or school account with a Microsoft Teams license. Personal Microsoft accounts (Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live) are not supported: Microsoft does not let apps create Teams meetings for them, so Rallly asks Microsoft for a work or school account when you connect.
  • You must have used Teams at least once with that account. An account whose Microsoft 365 plan does not include Teams cannot create meetings.
  • Your organization must let you approve Rallly, or an administrator must approve it for the organization. See Admin approval.
  • The Microsoft Teams integration must be enabled on the Rallly instance you use. On a self-hosted instance the administrator turns it on.

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Adding the app

1

Open Conferencing settings

In Rallly, open Settings from the sidebar and choose Conferencing.
2

Connect your account

Next to Microsoft Teams, click Connect. You are sent to Microsoft to pick your work or school account and sign in.
3

Approve the permissions

Microsoft shows what Rallly is asking for (listed under Permissions). Click Accept. You are returned to Rallly, where the email address of your Microsoft account appears next to Microsoft Teams.
When you connect, Rallly checks that the account can create Teams meetings by creating a test meeting and deleting it straight away. The test meeting does not appear in your calendar or in Teams. If Microsoft refuses it, Rallly does not connect the account and tells you why; see Troubleshooting. You can connect one Microsoft account for Microsoft Teams. To switch to a different account, disconnect the current one, then connect the new one. Connecting Microsoft Teams is separate from signing in to Rallly with Microsoft. You can sign in with any method and still connect Teams, and connecting Teams does not change how you sign in.

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Admin approval

Many organizations do not let their users approve apps themselves. If yours is one of them, Microsoft shows “Need admin approval” instead of the permissions, and Rallly shows an error when you return. Only an administrator of your organization can resolve this. When the connection fails, Rallly offers a Copy link button. Send that link to your IT administrator. The administrator opens it, signs in with their administrator account and approves Rallly for the whole organization; they do not need a Rallly account. On rallly.co the link is:
On a self-hosted instance, replace https://app.rallly.co with the address of your instance. After the administrator approves, connect Microsoft Teams again. Microsoft no longer asks for approval. Administrators who prefer the Microsoft Entra admin center can grant the same approval under Enterprise apps, after searching for Rallly and opening Permissions.

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Using the integration

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Choosing Microsoft Teams for a poll

When creating a poll, click Add video call and choose Microsoft Teams. The form shows “Microsoft Teams” as the video call for this poll. If your Microsoft Teams account is not connected, the form tells you so and links to Conferencing settings. Participants see “Microsoft Teams” on the poll page while voting is open. No meeting link exists yet.

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Finalizing the poll

When you finalize the poll and pick the winning time, Rallly:
  1. Creates a Teams meeting for that time on your Microsoft account.
  2. Attaches the join link, meeting ID and passcode to the event.
  3. Includes them in the calendar invite (.ics) and in the confirmation emails sent to you and to participants.
Rallly does not add the meeting to your Outlook calendar; the calendar invite Rallly sends covers it. If the meeting cannot be created, for example because the Microsoft connection has expired or your account no longer has a Teams license, the poll stays open and Rallly shows an error that says which it is. See Troubleshooting.

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Which account hosts the meeting

The meeting is created on the Microsoft account of the poll’s organizer. If a space member finalizes a poll organized by someone else, the meeting is still created on the organizer’s Microsoft account, and the organizer is the host.

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Permissions

When you connect, Rallly asks Microsoft for these permissions: Rallly uses OnlineMeetings.ReadWrite only to create a meeting when you finalize a poll and to create and immediately delete one test meeting when you connect. Rallly does not read your other meetings, chats, recordings, transcripts, files, contacts, calendar or email, and does not join or record meetings.

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Data Rallly stores

For a connected Microsoft account, Rallly stores:
  • Your Microsoft account id and email address, to identify the connection and show it in your settings.
  • The access token and refresh token Microsoft issues, encrypted at rest, so Rallly can create meetings on your behalf without asking you to sign in each time.
For each finalized poll, Rallly stores the join link, meeting ID and passcode of the meeting it created, as part of the event. Rallly does not store the content of any meeting.

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Removing the app

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From Rallly

  1. Open Settings, then Conferencing.
  2. Next to Microsoft Teams, click the More options button and choose Disconnect.
The connection is removed immediately, Rallly deletes the tokens it stored for that Microsoft account and stops creating Teams meetings for you. Microsoft does not let apps revoke their own access, so disconnecting in Rallly does not remove Rallly from your Microsoft account. Rallly no longer holds tokens to use it, but to remove the permission itself, follow the steps below. Polls that already chose Microsoft Teams keep that choice but can no longer be finalized with a Teams link until an account is connected again. Meetings Rallly already created keep working.

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From your Microsoft account

  1. Open My Apps and sign in with the account you connected.
  2. Find Rallly, open its menu and choose Manage your application.
  3. Choose Revoke permissions and confirm.
If you do not see the option, your organization manages app permissions centrally; ask your administrator to remove Rallly. Microsoft does not tell Rallly, so the connection still appears in your settings until you disconnect it in Rallly as well; Rallly can no longer use it.

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Troubleshooting

Microsoft says “Need admin approval”. Your organization does not let users approve apps. Send your administrator the link described under Admin approval. Microsoft does not accept your personal account. Microsoft Teams meetings can only be created for work or school accounts. Connect the account your organization gave you. Rallly says the account can’t create Teams meetings. Microsoft refused the test meeting Rallly creates when you connect. The account has no Teams license, Teams has never been opened with it, or your organization’s policies do not let it create meetings. Open Teams with that account: if Teams does not open, ask your IT administrator for a license that includes Teams. Once Teams opens, connect the account in Rallly again. “Microsoft Teams is not connected” when creating a poll. Your Rallly account has no Microsoft Teams connection, or it was removed. Connect one in Conferencing settings and choose Microsoft Teams again. Finalizing fails because Microsoft Teams couldn’t create the meeting. The account could create meetings when you connected it and no longer can, usually because its Teams license was removed. Check that you can open Teams with that account, then finalize again. The poll is unchanged until finalizing succeeds. Finalizing fails because the account is not connected. The connection expired after 90 days without use, your password was changed, or your administrator removed Rallly. Disconnect and reconnect Microsoft Teams in Conferencing settings and finalize again. Participants wait in the lobby. Who waits in the lobby follows your organization’s Teams meeting policies. The host can admit people from the meeting, or change the meeting options in Teams. The meeting was created on the wrong account. The meeting is always created on the poll organizer’s connected Microsoft account. Check which account is connected in Conferencing settings. Still stuck? Contact support.