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    Home > Perform Exchange Online Public Folder Migrations > Create a Connection

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    Create a Connection

    To connect Fly to your source and destination, you need to add connections in Fly before the migration. Refer to the following steps to add an Exchange Online connection:

    1. Click Settings in the left pane, and select Connections to access the Connections page.

    2. Click Create connection. The Create connection panel appears.

    3. In the Create connection panel, complete the following settings:

      • Connection name – Enter a name for the connection.

      • Connection type – Select Exchange Online from the drop-down list to create a connection for Exchange Online.

      • Tenant – Select a tenant from/to which you want to migrate Exchange Online objects. You can enter the keyword of a tenant in the Search tenant text box and press Enter on the keyboard to search the tenant.

        If your desired tenant cannot be found from the drop-down list, you need to connect to the tenant in AvePoint Online Services Tenant management. Refer to Connect Your Tenants to AvePoint Online Services for details. Then click the Refresh (Button: Refresh button.) button to reload the tenant.

      • Credentials – Refer to the following instructions to configure credentials.

        • App profile – Select an app profile from the drop-down list to use the app profile authentication method to add the connection. You can enter the keyword of an app profile in the Search app profile text box and press Enter on the keyboard to search the app profile.

          • Impersonation user – If you select a custom app profile, the impersonation user you configured in AvePoint Online Services will be automatically filled in. You can change the user to a desired user with the Exchange Online product license assigned in Microsoft 365. This user will be used to identify your Microsoft 365 tenant ID. If the user configured in Fly differs from the one in AvePoint Online Services, the migration will use the user configured in Fly.

        • Service account authentication – Fly provides the following two authentication methods:

          • Legacy authentication – Select one or multiple service accounts from the drop-down list.

            *Note: This method does not support service accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

          • Modern authentication – If the account has MFA enabled, you can use modern authentication method and select one or multiple delegated app profiles from the drop-down list to add the connection. You can enter the keyword of a delegated app profile in the Search delegated app profile text box and press Enter on the keyboard to search the delegated app profile.

      • You can also create a new (delegated) app profile or service account in AvePoint Online Services. Remember to click the Refresh button to reload the (delegated) app profile or service account after the creation.

    4. Click Save to save your configurations.

    On the Connections page, you can manage the existing connections.

    - Filter – Click **Filter** to filter connections by connection type and/or tenant. - Search – Enter the keyword of a connection name in the search box to search for the desired connection. - Edit – Click the connection name to edit a connection. - Delete – Select one or multiple connections and click **Delete** to delete them.