Permission Requirements

This article discusses the permission requirements necessary to run Syskit Point successfully.

Microsoft 365

When connecting to your Microsoft 365 tenant, it is required for you to connect with a Global Administrator account.

Please note! Microsoft 365 Global Admin credentials are only needed when connecting for the first time.

Below, the reasons for such requirements are described in greater detail.

Global Administrator

When connecting to a Microsoft 365 tenant for the first time, you must connect with a Global Administrator account.

The first time you connect to your Microsoft 365 tenant, you will be prompted to consent to a set of permissions that Syskit Point requires to function correctly. Additional prompts may appear in the future when installing a newer version of Syskit Point because of new functionality and, consequently, new permissions required.

Syskit Point App Permissions

Please note! Permissions described below are automatically granted to Syskit Point by giving consent during the initial connection process.

To achieve its functionality, Syskit Point is registered as an Enterprise Application in Azure Active Directory. The permissions model is based on OAuth and OpenID Connect flows. This enables Syskit Point to consume all of the APIs provided by Microsoft in a standard and well-defined way. It also allows the use of modern authentication, including Multi-Factor Authentication. Syskit Point requires permissions to access several Microsoft APIs. There are two types of required permissions:

  • Application permissions - define what Syskit Point can do without a signed-in user.

  • Delegated permissions - define what Syskit Point can do in the name of the signed-in user.

The following permissions are required for Syskit Point Installer Enterprise Application:

Microsoft Graph

PermissionsTypeReason

Read all users' full profiles

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to read your users' profiles and show you reports based on that data.

Access directory as the signed-in user

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to access your directory.

Read directory data

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to autodiscover your sites, groups, and users.

Sign users in

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to scan your environment as a signed-in user

View users' basic profile

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point Microsoft Teams application to show users basic data and allow secure communication with Syskit Point.

Windows Azure Service Management API

PermissionsTypeReason

Access Azure Service Management as organization users

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to create an additional application in your tenant for safer data access.

To allow safer access to your Microsoft 365 tenant data and optimize the data sync process, additional app registrations are created during the initial connect process:

  • Syskit Point Service

  • Syskit Point Client

  • Syskit Point Permissions Loader

  • Syskit Point API - currently in Beta stage and not being used by default

Syskit Point Service

Syskit Point Service app registration is used for data Sync, audit log collection, and sending emails. The following permissions enable Syskit Point to perform these actions:

Microsoft Graph

PermissionsTypeReason

Read all audit log data

Application

Enables Syskit Point to access data used to determine the time of the last sign-in for guest users.

Read the members of all channels

Application

Allows Syskit Point to collect membership data for private and shared channels.

Read directory data

Application

Allows Syskit Point to autodiscover your sites, groups, and users.

Read files in all site collections

Application

Enables Syskit Point to perform partial site syncs containing changed files only.

Read and write all groups

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read Microsoft 365 Group data and show you reports based on that data. Additionally, it allows you to manage your groups from Syskit Point.

Read all published labels and label policies for an organization

Application

Enables Syskit Point to sync published sensitivity labels and store them in the database.

Read and write mail in all mailboxes

Application

Allows Syskit Point to send emails as a part of the Access Review, Lifecycle Management, Scheduled Reports, Alerts, and other features.

Send mail as any user

Application

Allows Syskit Point to send emails as a part of the Access Review, Lifecycle Management, Scheduled Reports, Alerts, and other features.

Read all usage reports

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read usage reports generated by Microsoft.

Read and write users' full profiles

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your users' profiles and show you reports based on that data. Additionally, it allows Syskit Point to automatically remove inactive guest users if defined in the Inactive Guest Users policy.

Microsoft 365 Exchange Online

PermissionsTypeReason

Manage Exchange as application

Application

Allows Syskit Point to sync distribution lists and email enabled security groups.

Microsoft 365 Management APIs

PermissionsTypeReason

Read activity data for your organization

Delegated, Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your organization's audit logs.

Read service health information for your organization

Delegated, Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your organization's audit logs.

SharePoint

PermissionsTypeReason

Have full control on all sites

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read documents and list items in all site collections and show you reports based on that data.

Please note: The Syskit Point Service Principal is also added to the Exchange Administrator; this enables syncing the distribution list and email-enabled security group owners and running management actions for such groups in Syskit Point.

Syskit Point Client

The second app registration, Syskit Point Client, enables users to securely sign in to Syskit Point and perform actions they are entitled to, based on their permissions in Microsoft 365 environment. The following permissions are used:

Microsoft Graph

PermissionsTypeReason

Add and remove members from channels

Delegated

Enables users to manage private channels in Syskit Point.

Access directory as the signed-in user

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to access your directory.

Read and write directory data

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to autodiscover your sites, groups, and users; allows license management actions to be performed.

View users' email address

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to log users in Microsoft Teams application.

Read and write all groups

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to read Microsoft 365 Group data and show you reports based on that data. Additionally, it allows you to manage your groups from Syskit Point.

Maintain access to data you have given it access to

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point always to show you the latest data about your environment.

Sign users in

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to scan your environment as the signed-in user.

Read all users' relevant people lists

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to display users' relevant people lists in People Picker within Syskit Point Teams app.

Read presence information of all users in your organization

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point Microsoft Teams application to show the status of users.

View users' basic profile

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point Microsoft Teams application to show users basic data and allow secure communication with Syskit Point.

Add and remove members from teams

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to add newly created users in AAD to Microsoft Teams and private channels.

Send a teamwork activity to any user

Application

Allows Syskit Point Microsoft Teams application to send notifications to users.

Read and write all users' full profiles

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point to read your users' profiles and show you reports based on that data; allows license management actions to be performed.

When using Microsoft Authentication Flow to connect a service account, the following Microsoft Graph permissions are added to the Syskit Point Client app registration:

PermissionsTypeReason

Read all published labels and label policies for an organization

Delegated

Enables service account to read published sensitivity labels.

Read users' full profiles

Delegated

Allows service account to read your users' profiles.

Microsoft 365 Exchange Online

PermissionsTypeReason

Manage Exchange configuration

Delegated

Allows Syskit Point users to manage owners and members in distribution lists and email enabled security groups.

SharePoint

PermissionsTypeReason

Have full control of all site collections

Delegated

Allows you to manage your Site Collections directly from Syskit Point.

Syskit Point Permissions Loader

Syskit Point Permissions Loader app registration is used for optimized data Sync for SharePoint and OneDrive data paired with the Syskit Point Service app registration. The following permissions enable Syskit Point to perform these actions:

Microsoft Graph

PermissionsTypeReason

Read all audit log data

Application

Enables Syskit Point to access data used to determine the exact time of the last sign-in for guest users.

Read the members of all channels

Application

Allows Syskit Point to collect membership data for private and shared channels.

Read directory data

Application

Allows Syskit Point to autodiscover your sites, groups, and users.

Read files in all site collections

Application

Enables Syskit Point to perform partial site syncs, containing changed files only.

Read and write all groups

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read Microsoft 365 Group data and show you reports based on that data. Additionally, it allows you to manage your groups from Syskit Point.

Read all published labels and label policies for an organization

Application

Enables Syskit Point to sync published sensitivity labels and store them in the database.

Read and write mail in all mailboxes

Application

Allows Syskit Point to send emails as a part of the Access Review, Lifecycle Management, Scheduled Reports, Alerts, and other features.

Send mail as any user

Application

Allows Syskit Point to send emails as a part of the Access Review, Lifecycle Management, Scheduled Reports, Alerts, and other features.

Read all usage reports

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read usage reports generated by Microsoft.

Read and write users' full profiles

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your users' profiles and show you reports based on that data. Additionally, it allows Syskit Point to automatically remove inactive guest users if defined in the Inactive Guest Users policy.

Microsoft 365 Exchange Online

PermissionsTypeReason

Manage Exchange as application

Application

Allows Syskit Point to sync distribution lists and email enabled security groups.

Microsoft 365 Management APIs

PermissionsTypeReason

Read activity data for your organization

Delegated, Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your organization's audit logs.

Read service health information for your organization

Delegated, Application

Allows Syskit Point to read your organization's audit logs.

SharePoint

PermissionsTypeReason

Have full control on all sites

Application

Allows Syskit Point to read documents and list items in all site collections and show you reports based on that data.

Please note: The Syskit Point Permissions Loader Principal is also added to the Exchange Administrator role; this enables syncing the distribution list and email-enabled security group owners and running management actions for such groups in Syskit Point.

Syskit Point Power Platform

By default, no permissions are added. If Power BI data collection is configured, the following Admin API permissions are given through a specified security group:

  • read-only access to all the information available through Power BI admin APIs; for example, user names and emails, dataset and report detailed metadata

  • read-only access to detailed metadata about Power BI items; for example, responses from GetScanResult APIs will contain the names of dataset tables and columns

Read the following article to learn how to enable Power BI data collection in Syskit Point

Configuration Inventory Module

If the Configuration Inventory module is deployed, Syskit Point creates an Azure AD Application named Syskit Point Configuration Inventory when establishing a connection to your tenant.

Open this article to see all permissions granted to Syskit Point Configuration Inventory app registration.

Syskit Point API

Syskit Point API app registration is used for third-party app integration, meaning you can get Syskit Point data via Syskit Point API and use it in other business applications and web services. This feature is currently in the Beta stage.

By default, the app registration has no permissions added.

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