Using the Microsoft 365 App

Requirements for using the Microsoft 365 app

• A Zoom account
• Zoom desktop client
  • Windows: version 6.2.5 or higher
  • macOS: version 6.2.5 or higher
• A Microsoft account

How to install from the Zoom App Marketplace

1. Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace.
2. Search for Microsoft 365.
3. Click Add. 
4. Review the requested permissions and click Authorize. Once installed, the app is displayed under the Apps section of the Zoom desktop app.

How to connect the Microsoft 365 app to your Microsoft account

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Click Apps in a meeting or in the main desktop app.
3. Open the Microsoft 365 app.
4. You will be redirected to your system browser and prompted to sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace. Make sure you sign in using the same account you used to sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
5. You will be prompted to sign in to your Microsoft account.
6. Review the requested permissions and click Authorize. Once connected you will be automatically redirected back to the Zoom desktop app.
7. If you are not automatically redirected to the Zoom desktop app, you can manually return to the Microsoft 365 app and click Refresh.
8. Your Microsoft account should now be connected and you should be able to access your Microsoft Office files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

How to use the Microsoft 365 app

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Click Apps in a meeting.
3. Open the Microsoft 365 app.
4. Select an existing file that you want to open. Alternatively, you can select New to create a new Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file.
5. Click Collaborate to bring the document into the meeting for co-editing. 
6. You will be prompted to grant access to meeting invitees. Use the dropdown menu to grant editor, commentor, or viewer access. Click Grant access. 
7. The file will open natively within Zoom. Meeting participants will be sent invitations to join the collaboration.
8. After clicking Join, participants will be prompted to connect their Microsoft account to the Microsoft 365 app if they haven't done so in the past. 
9. Once connected, participants will automatically be granted access to the document and the file will open natively within Zoom for real-time collaboration.

How to remove the Microsoft 365 app

1. Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace.
2. In the top right of the page, click Manage.
3. In the left navigation menu, click Added Apps.
4. Next to the Microsoft 365 app, click Remove.

Data Security

• See, edit, create, and delete all of your Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files
• See your primary Microsoft email address
• See and download contact info automatically saved in your "Other contacts"

• Enable Zoom App within Zoom Meeting Client (zoomapp:inmeeting)
• Enable user managed app within Zoom Team Chat client (imchat:userapp)

• sendAppToBackground - This will send the app to the background and not keep it in the view for the user.
• onRunningContextChange - Triggers when there is a change in running context.
• openUrl - Opens a URL in the system browser of a user's device.
• getAppContext - This API returns app context token that contains signed app context data for secure backend validation.
• getUserContext - It returns basic information about the meeting participant while in a meeting.
• onCollaborateChange - The event is triggered when changes such as start, end, leave, join happen in Collaborate mode or end sidecar collaboration.
• endCollaborate - Ends Collaborate mode in a meeting.
• leaveCollaborate - Leave Collaborate mode.
• startCollaborate - Starts Collaborate mode in a meeting.
• expandApp - Tells the client to expand to the larger size or collapse it back to the default app UI size.
• The app uses several unpublished APIs to support collaboration and in-app navigation requests from iframes

• Protocol: TLS 1.2
• Cipher suite: ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
• Key length: 128 bits
• Perfect Forward secrecy: YES

• Zoom OAuth ID's (user-level only) are stored in an encrypted database.