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Mattermost documentation
Mattermost documentation
  • About Mattermost
    • Mattermost overview
    • Use cases
      • Maximize your Microsoft investment
      • Secure command and control
      • DevOps collaboration
      • Incident response collaboration
    • Security overview
    • Integrations overview
    • Subscription overview
      • Cloud subscriptions
        • Cloud Dedicated
        • Cloud Shared
        • Cloud VPC Private Connectivity
      • Self-hosted subscriptions
      • Editions and offerings
    • Releases and life cycle
      • Release policy
      • Server
        • Server releases
        • v10 changelog
        • v9 changelog
        • Unsupported legacy releases
        • Version archive
      • Desktop
        • Desktop releases
        • Desktop app changelog
      • Mobile
        • Mobile releases
        • Mobile apps changelog
      • Removed and deprecated features
    • Corporate directory integration
    • Certifications and compliance overview
    • Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
      • General Mattermost questions
      • Community questions
      • Notifications questions
      • Video, audio, and screen sharing questions
      • Enterprise questions
      • License questions
      • Integration questions
      • Use cases
      • Product questions
      • High trust questions
      • Design decision questions
      • Business questions
      • Illicit use questions
  • Deploy Mattermost
    • Migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL
      • Automate PostgreSQL migration
      • Manually migrate to PostgreSQL
    • Prepare your Mattermost database
    • Deploy on Ubuntu
    • Deploy using Docker
    • Deploy with a tarball
    • Deploy using Omnibus
    • Deploy using Kubernetes
    • Deploy on Red Hat
    • Set up an NGINX proxy
    • Set up TLS
    • Prepare for your Mattermost deployment
      • Software and hardware requirements
      • Manage the Mattermost Kubernetes Operator
      • Administrator tasks
      • Architecture overview
      • Plan your Mattermost implementation
      • Enterprise roll out checklist
      • Welcome email template
    • Deployment guides
      • Server deployment
        • Deployment overview
        • Set up a socket-based Mattermost database
        • Image proxy
        • Backup and disaster recovery
        • Encryption options
        • Configure transport encryption
          • Configuring proxy to Mattermost transport encryption
          • Configuring database transport encryption
          • Configuring cluster transport encryption
        • Bleve search
        • Trial Mattermost using Docker
      • Desktop and mobile app deployment
        • Desktop app deployment guide
        • Desktop MSI installer and group policy installation guides (Beta)
        • Desktop App custom dictionaries
        • Desktop managed resources
        • Using Mattermost’s pre-built mobile apps
        • Testing push notifications
        • Deploy Mattermost mobile apps
        • Mobile push notifications
        • Building and distributing your own custom Mattermost mobile apps
        • Deploying mobile apps using an EMM provider
        • AppConfig for EMM solutions with Mattermost Mobile Apps
        • Mobile VPN options
        • Mobile apps FAQ
        • Client-side data storage FAQ
    • Upgrade Mattermost
      • Important upgrade notes
      • Prepare to upgrade Mattermost
      • Upgrade Mattermost Server
      • Enterprise install and upgrade
      • Install a license key
      • Downgrade Mattermost Server
    • Scale Mattermost
      • Scale for Enterprise
      • Scale up to 200 users
      • Scale up to 2000 users
      • Scale up to 15000 users
      • Scale up to 30000 users
      • Scale up to 50000 users
      • Scale up to 80000 users
      • Scale up to 90000 users
      • Scale up to 100000 users
      • High availability cluster-based deployment
      • Elasticsearch
      • Collect performance metrics
      • Deploy Prometheus and Grafana for performance monitoring
      • Performance monitoring metrics
      • Mattermost performance alerting guide
      • Ensuring releases perform at scale
    • Deployment troubleshooting
      • General troubleshooting
      • Troubleshooting your high scale deployment
      • Troubleshooting mobile applications
      • PostgreSQL installation troubleshooting
      • MySQL installation troubleshooting
    • Additional server installation guides
      • Deploy Mattermost on Bitnami
      • AWS Elastic Beanstalk Docker setup
      • SMTP email setup
      • Install Mattermost Team Edition in GitLab Helm Chart
      • Open source components
  • Manage Mattermost
    • Get started
      • Mattermost feature labels
      • Optimize your workspace
      • Mattermost configuration settings
      • Self-hosted edition and license
      • Cloud subscription, billing, and account
      • Reporting configuration settings
      • User management configuration settings
      • Environment configuration settings
      • Site configuration settings
      • Authentication configuration settings
      • Plugins configuration settings
      • Enable Copilot
      • Manage user surveys
      • Integrations configuration settings
      • Compliance configuration settings
      • Experimental configuration settings
      • Deprecated configuration settings
      • Environment variables
      • Provisioning workflows
      • Multi-factor authentication
      • Active Directory/LDAP
      • GitLab SSO
      • OpenID SSO
      • Google SSO
      • Entra ID SSO
      • Advanced permissions
      • Delegated granular administration
      • Manage team and channel members
      • Custom branding tools
      • Export channel data
      • eDiscovery
      • Compliance monitoring
      • Compliance export
      • Legal hold
      • Data retention tools
      • Custom terms of service
      • Notify Admin
      • AD/LDAP groups
      • Use AD/LDAP synchronized groups to manage team or private channel membership
      • Guest accounts
      • SAML Single Sign-On
        • Okta SAML Configuration
        • Generate self-signed certificates
        • OneLogin SAML Configuration
        • Microsoft ADFS SAML Configuration for Windows Server 2012
        • Microsoft ADFS SAML Configuration for Windows Server 2016
        • Keycloak SAML Configuration
      • SAML Single-Sign-On: technical documentation
      • Shared channels
      • Statistics
      • In-product notices
      • User satisfaction surveys
      • System-wide notifications
      • Bulk export tool
    • Cloud workspace management
      • Workspace migration
      • Cloud data residency
      • Cloud IP Filtering
      • Cloud Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)
    • Self-hosted administration
      • Mattermost self-hosted billing
      • Mattermost error codes
      • Request a server Health Check
      • Store configuration in your database
      • Bulk loading data
      • SMTP email setup
      • Email templates
      • Calls self-hosted deployment
      • Network Requirements for Calls Deployment
      • Configure CloudFront to host static assets
      • Use an outbound proxy
      • Migration guide
      • Migrate from Slack
      • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search
      • Customize Mattermost
      • Mattermost logging
      • JSON audit log schema
      • SSL client certificate setup
      • Certificate-based authentication
      • Manage telemetry
      • Configure health check probes
    • Other resources
      • Convert OAuth 2.0 providers to OpenID Connect
      • Generate a support packet
      • mmctl command line tool
      • Migration announcement email template
      • Advanced permissions infrastructure
      • Command line tools
  • Use Mattermost
    • Connect and collaborate
      • Access your Mattermost workspace
        • Install the desktop app
        • Install the iOS mobile app
        • Install the Android mobile app
        • Log out of Mattermost
      • Organize using teams
        • Team settings
        • Team keyboard shortcuts
      • Organize using custom user groups
      • Invite people
      • Learn about Mattermost roles
      • Collaborate within channels
        • Channel types
        • Channel naming conventions
        • Communicate a channel's focus and scope
        • Create channels
        • Rename channels
        • Convert public channels to private channels
        • Convert group messages to private channels
        • Join and leave channels
        • Make calls in Mattermost
        • Manage channel members
        • Browse channels
        • Navigate between channels
        • Mark channels as favorites
        • Mark channels as unread
        • Archive and unarchive channels
      • Communicate with messages and threads
        • Send messages
        • Reply to messages
        • React with emojis and GIFs
        • Organize conversations
        • Mark messages as unread
        • Forward messages
        • Share links to channels and messages
        • Save and pin messages
        • Set message reminders
        • Search for messages
        • Format messages
        • Set message priority
        • Mention people
        • Share files in messages
      • Collaborate within Microsoft Teams
      • Chat with Copilot
      • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Keyboard accessibility
        • Run slash commands
        • Built-in-slash-commands
      • Extend Mattermost with integrations
    • Build repeatable processes
      • Learn about collaborative playbooks
      • Work with collaborative playbooks
      • Work with runs
      • Work with tasks
      • Work with notifications and updates
      • Work with metrics and goals
      • Share and collaborate
      • Interact with collaborative playbooks
    • Customize your preferences
      • Manage your notifications
        • Manage your web notifications
        • Manage your desktop notifications
        • Manage your mobile notifications
        • Manage your thread reply notifications
        • Manage your @mention & keyword notifications
        • Manage your channel-specific notifications
      • Customize your Mattermost theme
      • Customize your channel sidebar
      • Manage your profile
      • Manage your security preferences
      • Set your status & availability
      • Manage your display options
      • Manage your sidebar options
      • Manage advanced options
      • Manage your calls preferences
      • Customize your desktop app experience
      • Connect to multiple workspaces
  • Integrate and extend
    • GitHub interoperability
    • GitLab interoperability
    • Jira interoperability
    • Mattermost Playbooks for Microsoft Teams
    • Microsoft Calendar interoperability
    • Microsoft Teams interoperability
    • Microsoft Teams Meetings interoperability
    • ServiceNow interoperability
    • Zoom interoperability
  • Develop with Mattermost
  • Get help with Mattermost
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