This article describes how IT managers of a team can quickly get started with Feishu Admin. Thanks to Feishu's flexibility, IT specialists of a company can create their own Workplace apps, activate Feishu email accounts and help desks, and set security policies to empower their company's intelligent management and an efficient and pleasant office experience in Feishu.
📖 What are the IT feature highlights of Feishu Admin?
- •Basic feature configuration: You can import employee information, activate Feishu email accounts and manage the help desk via API.
- •Workplace settings: You can review, configure and create apps.
- •Navigation bar settings: You can customize the navigation bar in Feishu clients and add company apps.
- •Security settings: You can configure file permissions, watermarks and administrator logs.
💻 As a team IT specialist, what can I do with Feishu Admin?
First, you need to set SSO login for Feishu and activate features as needed to introduce apps and software for your company. You can also add your company's own apps through Feishu Open Platform and set security policies for your company. Detailed procedure can be found as follows:
- •Go to Feishu Admin
On Feishu mobile app, click the profile photo in the upper-left corner and a pane will appear. Click Administration to go to Feishu Admin. You can also use the Suite Admin gadget on Feishu mobile app for more convenience. For more methods to access Feishu Admin, .
- •Configure feature settings
Feishu Admin has a specialized area for feature management where you can activate Feishu email accounts, manage the help desk, set features related to video meetings, create an all-staff calendar and perform other actions.
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- •Import employee information via API
You can add custom fields to enrich employee information, and batch retrieve employee information via the contacts API of Feishu Open Platform. Once the Allow to invoke by Open Platform’s Contacts API option is enabled, developers can call the API to query, add or modify members' custom info.
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- •Configure Workplace settings
As an administrator, you can go to Feishu Admin - Workplace to get a great variety of official apps and third-party apps for your company, and configure apps' availability and the recommended sorting orders in Feishu Workplace. If your company has development capacity, you can also create your own apps on Feishu Open Platform. After the apps pass the review of Feishu Admin, they can then be available to your employees.
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- •Configure navigation bar settings
As an administrator, you can go to Feishu Admin - Settings - In-App Navigation Bar to adjust the app sorting order in the navigation bar as you prefer. You can also add your company's own apps to create a more personalized user experience.
- •Configure security settings
Information security is a top concern in company operations. Feishu offers multiple security policies to prevent confidential information leakage and safeguard your data security. For example, Feishu adds a watermark to each feature page to make everything traceable. Feishu also has a file sharing permission mechanism for you to enable or disable permissions as needed.
- •Configure administrator logs
Any action performed by any administrator in Feishu Admin is recorded in Feishu Admin - Security - Admin Log. The log can be exported and archived for tracking purposes, ensuring security of Feishu Admin.
- •Configure Single Sign-On (SSO)
Feishu supports login using your company's own account system. This feature is under grayscale test. If you want to have a try, click Customer Service below to activate the feature. After this feature is activated, your company's super administrator should complete the SSO configuration in Feishu Admin before your team members can use SSO login.
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💕 Learn more
👏 Click to view more guides to Feishu Admin features. If you still have questions or want to try out the grayscale feature, contact Customer Service.