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  2. Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
  3. What is a connector?
  4. Configure credentials
  5. Assign Microsoft 365 apps registration
Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Assign Microsoft 365 apps registration

When assigning Microsoft 365 app registrations, the apps will initially be in an inactive status. A Global Admin from your organization must approve the admin consent before the apps can be used for backup and restore operations.

To assign Microsoft 365 apps registration

  1. On the Credentials page, click M365 app registrations.
  2. Click + Assign M365 apps.
  3. On the Assign new M365 apps page, enter the following details:

    Tenant Domain

    Select the tenant's domain name from the dropdown list. If the domain name is not listed, contact Cohesity Support.

    Number of apps to provision

    Enter the number of apps to be provisioned for this connector. The number of apps provisioned ensures that the required performance is achieved.

    • For Audit Log connector - One app only

    • For Entra ID connector - Five hundred apps

    • For Teams chat connector - One app only

    Guidelines to assign Microsoft 365 apps registration for SharePoint Online connector:

    • For license count less than 1000, then provision 1 to 3.

    • For license counts between 1000 and 5000, provision 4 to 8

    • For license counts between 5000 and 15000, provision 9 to 15.

    • For license counts between 15000 and 50000, provision 16 to 25.

  4. Click Assign.
  5. If the app status is displayed as Inactive. The Global Admin from your organization is required to approve these apps by accepting the admin consent.

    Note that the backup cannot start unless the Global admin accepts the admin consent and the apps are in an active state.

    Do any of the following to activate the apps:

    - Approve the admin consent request now.

    - Proceed with connector creation by clicking Next and later return to this page to approve the admin consent.

Next step:

See Manually approve Microsoft 365 apps registration. or See Approve Microsoft 365 apps using the App Consent Grant utility.

Related topics:
  • See API permissions for Microsoft 365 workloads.

  • See Microsoft 365 apps registration status.

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