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Sharepoint - How do I link my account?

How to link your Sharepoint account

Updated over a week ago

Overview

To authenticate your Sharepoint account, you will need to provide the following information:

  • Sharepoint username

  • Sharepoint password

Prerequisites

Non-admins may require admin consent to utilize the full capabilities of the integration, such as write permissions.

If admin consent is necessary, please read the guide here and follow the instructions here to ask your SharePoint administrator to grant user consent. You must start the linking flow over to re-link once you get consent from your admin.

Step 1: Select permissions

Select the permissions option that fits your use case

  • Read-only for non-admin users

    • Read access to Files, Folders, and Drives that only you have access to.

    • It does not allow access to Groups, upload Files, and create Folders.

  • Read-only for admin users

    • Read all the Files, Folders, and Drives in your Sites.

    • This does not allow the integration to upload Files and create Folders.

  • Read & Write for admin users

    • Read all the Files, Folders, and Drives in your Sites, as well as upload Files and create Folders.

Select Submit to proceed to the next page

Step 2: Authorize using SharePoint's website

Select Open window, to be redirected to SharePoint's website. Enter your SharePoint credentials when prompted.

Specific OAuth scopes will be requested, depending on the permissions you previously selected. Learn more.

  • Read-only for admin users

    • Microsoft Graph

      • Files.Read: Read user files

      • Files.Read.All: Read all files that user can access

      • Files.Read.All: Read files in all site collections

      • Group.Read.All: Read all groups

      • Group.Read.All: Read all groups

      • GroupMember.Read.All: Read group memberships

      • GroupMember.Read.All: Read all group memberships

      • Sites.Read.All: Read items in all site collections

      • Sites.Read.All: Read items in all site collections

      • User.Read: Read all users' full profiles

      • User.Read.All: Read all users' full profiles

    • SharePoint

      • Sites.Search.All: Run search queries as a user

  • Read & Write for admin users

    • Microsoft Graph

      • Files.Read: Read user files

      • Files.Read.All: Read all files that user can access

      • Files.ReadWrite: Have full access to user files

      • Files.ReadWrite.All: Have full access to all files user can access

      • Files.ReadWrite.All: Read and write files in all site collections

      • Group.Read.All: Read all groups

      • Group.Read.All: Read all groups

      • GroupMember.Read.All: Read group memberships

      • GroupMember.Read.All: Read all group memberships

      • Sites.Manage.All: Create, edit, and delete items and lists in all site collections

      • Sites.ReadWrite.All: Edit or delete items in all site collections

      • User.Read: Sign in and read user profile

      • User.Read.All: Read all users' full profiles

  • Read-only for non-admin users

    • Microsoft Graph

      • Files.Read.All: Read all files that user can access

      • Sites.Read.All: Read items in all site collections

      • User.Read: Sign in and read user profile

      • User.ReadBasic.All: Read all users' basic profiles

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Why each scope is needed

Refer to Microsoft’s permissions reference for an in-depth explanation as to why we need each requested scope. Also, see the attached screenshots at the bottom of the article for a description of each requested scope.

Explanation of differences between delegated and application permissions.

Read scopes

Sites.Read.All, Sites.Read.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to surface sites and populate file and folder information in sites that the user has access to. We also use these scopes to show the list of files, folders and drives to select from in the file picker UI.

Sites.Search.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to search for SharePoint sites using specific keywords. We also use these scopes to show the list of files, folders and drives to select from in the file picker UI.

Files: Files.Read, Files.Read.All, Files.Read.All

Sample relevant endpoint that requires these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to read files and folders that a user has access to. This enables us to populate file and folder information, such as descriptions, the drive the file or folder belongs to, file thumbnails and URLs, file and folder names, and file mime types. Note that, with selective sync enabled, we’ll only process the files, folders and drives that the end user would like to have synced.

We also use these scopes to show the list of files, folders and drives to select from in the file picker UI.

Group.Read.All, Group.Read.All, GroupMember.Read.All, GroupMember.Read.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to populate group information, such as the name of the group and the users which belong in the group.

User.Read, User.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to populate information about users, such as names and email addresses.

Write scopes

Files.ReadWrite, Files.ReadWrite.All, Files.ReadWrite.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

  • POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{parent-item-id}/children

  • POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

  • POST /me/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

  • POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

  • POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

We use information enabled by these scopes to read and create files and folders.

Sites.Manage.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All

Sample relevant endpoints that require these scopes:

We use information enabled by these scopes to read and write items in site collections. These scopes also enable us to populate information about permissions such as the group that is granted permission, which permissions are enabled, and what type of people have access to the file. We also use these scopes to show the list of files, folders and drives to select from in the file picker UI.

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