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Access your Privacy settings
- Click Settings at the bottom of the left menu.
- Select the Privacy tab.
Available options
Access to Microsoft 365 resources
Toggle on Always consent access to your Microsoft 365 resources to consent to the Azure ShareGate Desktop application.
Consenting access to your Microsoft 365 resources allows ShareGate Desktop to identify to Microsoft 365 that it is running operations on your tenant through an access token.
It does this through the Azure ShareGate Desktop app in your Azure Active Directory.
Administrator rights
Toggle on Auto-assign as administrator to allow ShareGate Desktop to auto-assign Site Collection Administrator permissions when you connect to your environment.
For full functionality, we recommend Site Collection Administrator permissions (even if you have higher admin permissions).
This allows ShareGate Desktop to automatically grant your user account the required rights when you access a site collection.
This is toggled off by default.
Note: This option only works when you are connected directly to your Microsoft 365 Tenant or SharePoint farm. This only applies to the user account that is used to connect to the tenant or farm. Permissions added in this way will not be removed automatically. To undo this action, you can follow the guide here.
Security
Toggle on Allow ShareGate Desktop to connect using invalid certificates to allow ShareGate Desktop to connect using invalid certificates.
This is toggled off by default.
Note: If you attempt to connect using an invalid certificate with this option toggled off, you will receive a warning prompt offering you the option to allow or cancel the connection.
Telemetry
Toggle off Enable usage data and errors to be sent to ShareGate to disable ShareGate Desktop from collecting telemetry data on its usage.
Telemetry data is used when planning new features and improvements to better match what users are doing with ShareGate Desktop. No confidential information will ever be collected with this option toggled on.
This is toggled on by default.
Comments
4 comments
Hi ShareGate,
Not really enough detail. What are the implications if we don't select "Always consent access to your Office 365 resources"? Will a Global admin have to "consent" every time we access the connection if we don't enable this? Or is this required just to be able to consent?
Thanks!
Hi Michael,
You can click on the link for the Azure ShareGate Desktop Application. It will bring you to this article that should answer all your questions.
Generally speaking the global admin consent is a one time thing and the application helps a lot with throttling.
It is also required for certain operations on Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams.
Best regards,
Thanks Vic for the quick response! I guess my main question is, once we have the Global Admin authorize the ShareGate Azure App which creates the access_token, do I then need to enable the "Always consent access to your Office 365 resources" option to use the feature?
Thanks!
Hi Michael,
It's my pleasure. You do not need to activate that feature. When you connect to a new tenant, you usually get a prompt about consenting the app with a global admin account.
If you had global admin permissions, activating that option automatically consents any new tenant you would connect to in ShareGate Desktop without showing that prompt.
Once consented by a global admin, the Azure app does its job for any admin connecting to the tenant with ShareGate Desktop, regardless of that setting.
Best regards,
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