To use this app at your company, you will need an active subscription that is based on the amount of users able to use Microsoft Teams. The subscription is tied to your organization and will be payed and managed using the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace.
Get a Subscription for Link Spotter
Go to AppSource to buy a Subscription for Link Spotter. Please verify your payment information used by our tenant and choose the number of teams users as seat size. Our services checks these information later and updates the seat size to the numbers of users with a Teams license on your tenant (without guests).
Please be aware that we will check your user count periodically and update your subscription in order to provide a correct payment.
After creating the subscription in AppSource you has to configure your account and has to activate your subscription. You can then start using Link Spotter. The subscription is automatically associated with the tenant you are logged into when you make the purchase in AppSource.
There can be only one active subscription per tenant. Additional subscriptions are automatically cancelled when the account is configured. Subscription to subsets of users is not currently supported.
Manage Subscription
To manage the subscription for your organization you can simply click on the link “Manage Subscription“ in the top right corner of a tab.
Please consider that the initial loading of the channel has to be finished in order to see the link. You can follow instructions at Add Link Spotter to a Team Channel if you haven’t added Link Spotter to a channel yet.
To provide your company more flexibility in managing your subscription we have restricted access to that link. Users or groups that should be able to see that link have to be added to the application role “Licence Manager“ by your Azure AD administrator.
Assign the Licence Manager role
To assign the Licence Manager role to persons or groups you have to navigate to the tab “Enterprise applications“ inside your organizations Azure Active Directory.
You should be able to find “Link Spotter” following the steps on the screen below:
After selecting the app you are able to manage user and group assignments for Link Spotter using the tab “Users and groups“. Click on the button “Add user/group“ to assign users to the group “Licence Manager”.
Clicking on “None Selected“ allows you to select the users or groups which should be able to manage the subscription of your organization.
The role “Licence Manager” should be preselected automatically because it’s the only role available.
You can finish the configuration process by clicking on “Assign“.
It can take up to 30 minutes until this change will be reflected by Link Spotter and the assigned users are able to see the “Manage subscription“ link.