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Granting access to SharePoint drive

Complyance Support
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Note: Please attempt the steps Section 2 of this article before using this method - unless you have been advised by our team!

 

Granting access to drive

The instructions in this section are for granting read-only access to one SharePoint drive. These steps need to be performed for each SharePoint drive from which files will be synced.

  1. Go to Microsoft Graph Explorer: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer Click on the login button in the top-right corner and login as a user, who has admin control over the SharePoint Site.

  2. First Microsoft Graph Explorer needs permission to modify sites. To grant this permission, complete the following steps:

    1. In the top-right corner, click on your avatar, then click the Consent to permissions link in the popup.

    2. In the Permissions drawer that opens, find the Sites.FullControl.All permission and click the Consent button.

  3. Given a SharePoint site with the following URL: https://acme-corp.sharepoint.com/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration Construct a URL with the following format: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/acme-corp.sharepoint.com:/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration:/drives

Steps to transform the original SharePoint URL: 

1. Remove the https:// prefix: acme-corp.sharepoint.com/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration 

2. Insert a colon between .com and /: acme-corp.sharepoint.com:/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration 

3. Add the prefix https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/acme-corp.sharepoint.com:/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration 

4. Add the suffix :/drives: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/acme-corp.sharepoint.com:/sites/ComplyanceSharepointIntegration:/drives

After that:

1. Paste the final constructed URL into the query input and click `Run query`

2. In the `Response preview` tab, find the drive that should be granted access and copy its ID.

   

  1. Construct the following URL, replacing the {drive_id} placeholder with the drive ID from the previous step: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/{drive_id}/root/permissions

    After that:

    1. Change the request method to POST.
    2. Paste the final constructed URL into the query input.

    3. Paste the following payload into the Request Body tab:

      {
  "roles": [
    "read"
  ],
  "grantedTo": {
    "application": {
        "id": "6c382c8c-f13d-41b6-a39e-3911074374a5",
        "displayName": "Complyance SharePoint Integration"
    }
  }
}

    4. Click Run query and confirm that the permission was successfully created.

 

Your new site/drive has been configured and is ready to be pulling evidence into Complyance!

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