Microsoft 365 Certificate Based Authentication

[heiko_fuchs2]

Hi, is there any possibility to setup the Microsoft 365 adapter with Certificate Based Authentication instead of Client Credentials on the beacon GUI ?

[ChrisG · Accepted solution]

The following possibilities are available for configuring your Microsoft 365 connector:

1. You can configure the Microsoft 365 connector using a multi-tenant app supplied by Flexera (and thus avoid configuring your own app).
2. You can configure the Microsoft 365 connector using your own single-tenant app. This offers two kinds of authentication:
   • You can use similar credentials to the first case of the Flexera-supplied app
   • Importantly, you can instead configure a client secret that, for the lifetime that you declare, can be used to collect the appropriate data (without using additional credentials).

To avoid client credentials, you might consider the last option here to use a client secret.

Start on the following page for information about configuration options: Connecting to Microsoft 365 > Prerequisites and Configuration Considerations