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Export to PDFTo connect to the destination, you can choose to only use a service account, Fly app profile, or custom app profile as the authentication method. You can also use the combination of a service account and a Fly app profile or the combination of a service account and a custom app profile.
Refer to the following sections to view the permissions required by the authentication methods.
With the Tenant Owner or Service Administrator role, you can create a Fly app profile in AvePoint Online Services > Management > App management to connect to the Microsoft 365 tenant using the Fly app.
Refer to Fly App Profile Permissions about how to create a Fly app profile and required permissions of the Fly app profile.
With the Tenant Owner and Service Administrator role, you can create a custom app profile in AvePoint Online Services > Management > App management to connect to the Microsoft 365 tenant using a custom Azure app.
Refer to the following procedures to create a custom app profile:
Prepare a certificate in Microsoft Entra ID. Refer to Prepare a Certificate for the Custom Azure App for more information.
You can ignore this step if you have a certificate.
Create a custom Azure app in Microsoft Entra ID. Refer to Create Custom Azure Applications for more information.
Create an App Profile for a Custom Azure App in AvePoint Online Services.
After you re-authorize the app profile, you need to wait about one hour before using the app profile for your migration to refresh the token if there are permissions updated.
Refer to the following table to add API permissions required by the destination SharePoint Online to the custom Azure app.
| API Name | Permission Name | Description | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Graph | User.Read.All | Read all users | Application | Retrieve and migrate Microsoft 365 users. |
| Microsoft Graph | RoleManagement.Read.Directory | Read all directory RBAC settings | Application | Check Service Account available roles. |
| Microsoft Graph | Group.Read.All | Read all groups | Application | Retrieve the destination SharePoint group information and create groups. |
| Microsoft Graph | Files.Read.All | Read files in all site collections | Application | Retrieve the users’ OneDrive site URLs. |
| SharePoint | Sites.FullControl.All | Have full control of all site collections | Application | Migrate data to SharePoint. |
For easy use, you can directly use the following commands to add required API permissions through Manifest for Microsoft 365 Commercial tenants.
The Tenant Owner and Service Administrators can also create a service account profile for Microsoft 365 to connect AvePoint Online Services to your Microsoft 365 tenant.
Users with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled cannot be used as the service account to perform migrations.
If you only use the service account for the destination, make sure the service account meets the following requirements:
Site Collection Administrator
If Fly detects that the service account is not the Site Collection Administrator, but the service account has the SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator role, Fly will automatically add the service account as the Site Collection Administrator of the site collection.
SharePoint Administrator
If the SharePoint Administrator cannot access the SharePoint admin center, the Global Administrator is required.
If the destination is a group site or modern site, make sure the Deny permission is removed from the source or destination site.
If you also configure an app profile for the destination, Fly will use the app profile to connect to the destination. Therefore, there are no permission requirements for the service account. However, the service account will be automatically added as the Site Collection Administrator of destination site collections to ensure a successful job.
Fly allows you to use the Fly delegated app profile or custom delegated app profile to connect to your workspace.
If the consent user of the delegated app profile has Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled, you must authorize or re-authorize the delegated app profile after MFA is enabled. Otherwise, the migration jobs using the delegated app profile will fail.
If you re-authorize the app profile, you need to wait about one hour before using the app profile for your migration to refresh the token when there are permissions updated.
To use the Fly delegated app profile with required permissions, refer to Fly Delegated App Profile Permissions.
To use a custom delegated app profile with required permissions, refer to the following steps:
After registering an app in Microsoft Entra ID, add the permissions in the table below to the app.
| API | Permission | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Graph | User.Read.All (Read user profiles) | Delegated | Retrieve and migrate Microsoft 365 users. |
| Microsoft Graph | RoleManagement.Read.Directory (Read directory RBAC settings) | Delegated | Retrieve and migrate Microsoft 365 users. |
| Microsoft Graph | Files.Read.All (Read files in all site collections) | Delegated | Retrieve the users’ OneDrive site URLs. |
| Microsoft Graph | Group.Read.All (Read all groups) | Delegated | Retrieve source site related group owner and member. |
| SharePoint/Office 365 SharePoint Online | AllSites.FullControl (Have full control of all site collections) | Delegated | Retrieve settings and permissions of SharePoint Online site collections. |
| SharePoint/Office 365 SharePoint Online | User.Read.All (Read user profiles) | Delegated | Migrate OneDrive sites. |
For easy use, you can directly use the following commands to add required API permissions through Manifest for Microsoft 365 Commercial tenants.
Click Authentication in the left navigation of the app.
Click Add a platform.
Select Web in the Configure platforms panel.
In the Configure Web panel, enter the AvePoint Online Services URL: https://www.avepointonlineservices.com for your commercial environment or https://usgov.avepointonlineservices.com for your U.S. Government environment in the Redirect URIs field.
Select the Access tokens and ID tokens checkboxes in the Implicit grant and hybrid flows field.

Click Configure.
Click Save.
Create an app profile for the app using the Custom mode in AvePoint Online Services by referring to Consent to a Custom Azure App with Delegated Permissions.
When consenting to the app, if you have granted the admin consent and allowed public client flows for the permissions, you can choose to use the Global Administrator consent or the User consent method. If not, you can only use the Global Administrator consent method.