Does ChatGPT Dots work in Microsoft Teams?

Not yet, for most people. Messaging your dot in Microsoft Teams is an invite-only alpha. What you can do today is connect the Teams plugin, so your dot has your Teams conversations as context when you talk to it in ChatGPT.

#Three Teams things that get mixed up

"Dots and Teams" can mean three different things, and only the plugin is open to everyone today.

#What do you want Teams for?

Now match that to what you're after. Tap the one that sounds like you.

What do you want Teams for?

Pick what you're after. Most of it has a route today.

Message my dot from Teams

Not yet, unless you're in the alpha

Status

Messaging a dot in Teams is an invite-only alpha.

Do this

Message your dot in ChatGPT, call it, or connect it to Slack.

How to tell

Your dot's profile shows a Call button and a Slack button. If there's no Teams button, you're not in the alpha.

Give my dot context from Teams

Yes, with the Teams plugin

Status

Works today, where your plan and your Microsoft admin allow the Teams plugin.

Do this

Connect the Teams plugin.

Where it answers

In ChatGPT, or wherever else you talk to your dot. It doesn't post in Teams.

Let my whole team ask an assistant in a channel

Yes, with @ChatGPT, which isn't your dot

Status

@ChatGPT in Teams is available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Do this

Ask your ChatGPT workspace admin and your Teams admin to set it up.

The difference

@ChatGPT is shared by the team and remembers nothing about you. Your dot is yours alone.

Reach my dot away from my desk

Yes: on your phone, or in Slack

Status

Works today.

Do this

Open the ChatGPT app on your phone, where your dot is the first entry in the menu. Or connect your dot to Slack.

Good to know

It's the same dot with the same memory everywhere you reach it.

#How to tell whether you're in the alpha

Open your dot's profile and look at the buttons under its name. Outside the alpha there are two, Call and Slack, and no Teams button.

There's no request form for the alpha. In an Enterprise workspace, an admin can turn on the permission Add dots to Slack and Microsoft Teams, but that doesn't open Teams messaging by itself. Dots for workspace admins has the settings.

#Connect the Teams plugin

The plugin is the part that's open today. If you sign in to ChatGPT with a Microsoft account, setup offers Teams alongside Outlook and SharePoint, behind one Continue with Microsoft button.

If your dot already exists, add the plugin yourself:

1. Open Plugins from the @ icon at the far left of ChatGPT.
2. Under Communication, find Teams ("Summarize Teams and follow up") and click +.
3. Sign in with your Microsoft work or school account. Your Microsoft admin may need to approve it first.

Your dot sees only what your Microsoft account can already open. It isn't a member of your Teams, so it doesn't post there: you still talk to it in ChatGPT.

#Check you've got it

One question before you go.

Quick check

A colleague types @ChatGPT in a Teams channel and asks a question. Who answers?

• Your dot, because you connected the Teams pluginThe plugin gives your dot context. It doesn't put your dot in the channel.
• The shared @ChatGPT assistant your organization set up@ChatGPT is shared by the team. It has none of your dot's memory and doesn't speak for your dot.
• Nobody, until your organization joins the alphaThe alpha is for messaging your dot. @ChatGPT in Teams is a separate feature on Business and Enterprise plans.

Show the answer

The shared @ChatGPT assistant your organization set up @ChatGPT is shared by the team. It has none of your dot's memory and doesn't speak for your dot.

Use meanwhileConnect your dot to Slack

Add your dot to Slack from its profile: click Slack, pick a workspace, click Allow. Then DM it or mention it in a thread. Who it answers, and prompts to copy.

1. 6 October 2026
   Rebuilt around what works in Teams today.
2. 5 October 2026
   First published.