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Connect to Microsoft Sharepoint Online

Let's configure the Microsoft SharePoint Online connection properties to connect to Microsoft SharePoint Online.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get information from your SharePoint Online account based on the authentication type that you want to configure.
To configure Access Control Service authentication, generate the client ID, client secret, bearer realm, authorization code, and refresh code from you Microsoft SharePoint Online account.
To configure Microsoft Entra ID authentication, get the client ID, client secret and the refresh token from your Microsoft SharePoint Online account.
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn more about these tasks.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Sharepoint Online
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.

SharePoint Online authentication types

You can configure Access Control Service and Microsoft Entra ID authentication types to access SharePoint Online.
Select the required connection type and then configure the connection-specific parameters.