#Get Started

Refer to the sections below for important information on Confide.

#Subscription and Licensing Information

To find out how AvePoint charges for user seats for Confide service, refer to Licensing Information.

#Required Permissions

You can use the app profile authentication method to connect Confide with your Microsoft 365 tenant by registering an app. This ensures that all actions that run in your environment are tagged as AvePoint activities and we do not need to store any service accounts or passwords. By using the app profile authentication method, the app token within the app profile will be used to manage data, and the credentials of the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator account will not be stored by AvePoint Online Services – only your Administrator’s consent is recorded, and this consent can be monitored in your Microsoft Entra ID and can be revoked at any time from your environment.

You can use the app automatically created in Azure by AvePoint Online Services. Refer to the following steps to create an app profile for Confide in AvePoint Online Services:

1. Click Management > App Management > Create. The Create app profile page appears.

2. In the Select services step, select the desired tenant from the Tenant drop-down list, and then select Confide from the services list.

   NOTE

   Connect your tenants to AvePoint Online Service before the tenants can be listed in the Tenant drop-down list. For details, refer to the Connect Tenants section.

3. Click Next to proceed to the next step.

4. In the Choose setup method step, select Modern mode.

5. Click Next to proceed to the next step.

6. In the Consent to apps step, click Consent next to the app.

7. On the Microsoft 365 sign-in page, sign in with a Microsoft 365 Global Administrator account.

8. On the Permissions requested page, review the permissions required for using Confide and click Accept to accept the permissions to ensure the AvePoint Online Services and Confide functionality works. (The required permissions are listed in the table below.)

9. The success message appears and will be auto-closed after 5 seconds. When the message is closed, you will return to the Consent to apps step. Click Finish to finish creating the app profile.

10. The App management page appears, and the app profile is created successfully.

    Once you create an app profile for Confide, the AvePoint Confide Admin Portal app for authentication will be created.

    NOTE

    It may take some time for the app to be available. If you cannot find the app after you create the app profile, wait for about 10 minutes and try again.

To create a custom Azure app to connect Confide to your Microsoft 365 tenant, you can refer to the required API permissions listed below to add the API permissions to your custom app.

For details on how to create an app in your Microsoft Entra ID, see Create Custom Apps. When the app is in place, create an app profile in AvePoint Online Services and select Custom mode as the setup method.

Refer to the following API permissions requested by the AvePoint Confide Admin Portal app or your custom Azure app.