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Export to PDFYou can sign in to Confide with a Microsoft 365 account. Your account will be automatically signed out if there is no activity for 1 hour, and you can sign in again.
To sign in to Confide with a Microsoft 365 account, complete the following steps:
Open the following URL in a browser: https://ent.confideshare.com.
On the sign-in page, click Sign in with Microsoft.
On the Microsoft 365 authentication page, enter an existing Microsoft 365 login ID and password.
If you sign in with a local account, do not enter the account directly but proceed with the following steps:
Click Sign-in options.
Click Sign in to an organization.
Enter the domain name of your organization you’d like to sign in to.
Enter the email address.
Enter the code sent to your email.
When signing in to Confide for the first time or whenever there are updates to the application’s permissions, you must grant authorization to the AvePoint Confide with SharePoint Embedded application. Additionally, if a business user with the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator role selects the Consent on behalf of your organization option on the Permissions requested page during authorization, other business users will not be prompted to provide authorization.
The following permissions will be requested.
| API | Permission | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Graph | email (View users' email address) | Delegated | Read users' primary email addresses. |
| Microsoft Graph | offline_access (Maintain access to data you have given it access to) | Delegated | Read and update the data users have given the app access to and refresh the token. |
| Microsoft Graph | openid (Sign users in) | Delegated | Sign users in and read basic user profile information. |
| Microsoft Graph | profile (View users' basic profile) | Delegated | Read basic user profile information, including picture, username, and email address. |
| Microsoft Graph | User.Invite.All (Invite guest users to the organization) | Delegated | Invite guest users to the current organization. |
| Microsoft Graph | User.Read (Sign in and read user profile) | Delegated | Retrieve signed-in user information. |
| Microsoft Graph | User.Read.All (Read all users' full profiles) | Delegated | Retrieve and display user information. |
| SharePoint | Container.Selected (Access selected file storage containers) | Delegated | Manage containers. |
If you are using the Microsoft 365 account to sign in to another app on the same browser, you will be automatically signed in to Confide.
Click Sign in.
As an external user, you can refer to the steps below to sign in to Confide with SharePoint Embedded after you have been invited to collaborate on a project or an object in the share center:
After being invited, you’ll receive a notification email from Confide. Click Get Started or Go to share center in the received email to access the sign-in page.
On the sign-in page, click Sign in with Microsoft.
If you access the sign-in page by navigating to the product URL in your browser, you will need to locate the organization to which you have been invited.
Click Sign-in options from the Sign in page.
Click Sign in to an organization.
Enter the domain name of the organization you have been invited for collaboration and click Next.

Enter your email address and click Next.
Enter the account verification code from the Microsoft email you received and click Sign in.

Click Accept to accept the required permissions and sign in to Confide with SharePoint Embedded.
This is only required for your first sign-in.