prowler/docs/tutorials/microsoft365/getting-started-m365.md

Getting Started with M365 on Prowler Cloud/App

Set up your M365 account to enable security scanning using Prowler Cloud/App.

Requirements

To configure your M365 account, you'll need:

1. Obtain a domain from the Entra ID portal.

2. Access Prowler Cloud/App and add a new cloud provider Microsoft 365.

3. Configure your M365 account:

   3.1 Create the Service Principal app.

   3.2 Grant the required API permissions.

   3.3 Assign the required roles to your user.

4. Add the credentials to Prowler Cloud/App.

Step 1: Obtain your Domain

Go to the Entra ID portal, then you can search for Domain or go to Identity > Settings > Domain Names.

Once you are there just select the domain you want to use.

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Step 2: Access Prowler Cloud/App

1. Go to Prowler Cloud or launch Prowler App

2. Navigate to Configuration > Cloud Providers

   

3. Click on Add Cloud Provider

   

4. Select Microsoft 365

   

5. Add the Domain ID and an optional alias, then click Next

   

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Step 3: Configure your M365 account

Create the Service Principal app

A Service Principal is required to grant Prowler the necessary privileges.

1. Access Microsoft Entra ID

   

2. Navigate to Applications > App registrations

   

3. Click + New registration, complete the form, and click Register

   

4. Go to Certificates & secrets > Client secrets > + New client secret

   

5. Fill in the required fields and click Add, then copy the generated value (that value will be AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET)

   

With this done you will have all the needed keys, summarized in the following table

Value	Description
Client ID	Application (client) ID
Client Secret	AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
Tenant ID	Directory (tenant) ID

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Grant required API permissions

Assign the following Microsoft Graph permissions:

• Directory.Read.All: Required for all services.
• Policy.Read.All: Required for all services.
• SharePointTenantSettings.Read.All: Required for SharePoint service.
• AuditLog.Read.All: Required for Entra service.
• User.Read (IMPORTANT: this is set as delegated): Required for the sign-in.

Follow these steps to assign the permissions:

1. Go to your App Registration > Select your Prowler App created before > click on API permissions

   

2. Click + Add a permission > Microsoft Graph > Application permissions

   

3. Search and select every permission below and once all are selected click on Add permissions:

   • Directory.Read.All
   • Policy.Read.All
   • SharePointTenantSettings.Read.All
   • AuditLog.Read.All: Required for Entra service.

   

4. Click Add permissions, then grant admin consent

   

5. Click + Add a permission > Microsoft Graph > Delegated permissions

   

6. Search and select:

   • User.Read

   

7. Click Add permissions, then grant admin consent

   

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Assign required roles to your user

Assign one of the following roles to your User:

• Global Reader (recommended): this allows you to read all roles needed.
• Exchange Administrator and Teams Administrator: user needs both roles but with this roles you can access to the same information as a Global Reader (here you only read so that's why we recomend that role).

Follow these steps to assign the role:

1. Go to Users > All Users > Click on the email for the user you will use

   

2. Click Assigned Roles

   

3. Click on Add assignments, then search and select:

   • Global Reader This is the recommended, if you want to use the others just search for them

   

4. Click on next, then assign the role as Active, and click on Assign to grant admin consent

   

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Step 4: Add credentials to Prowler Cloud/App

1. Go to your App Registration overview and copy the Client ID and Tenant ID

   

???+ warning For Prowler Cloud encrypted password is still needed (when we update Prowler Cloud and regular password is accepted this warning will be deleted), so the password that you paste in the next step should be generated following this steps:

- UNIX: Open a PowerShell cmd with a [supported version](../../getting-started/requirements.md#supported-powershell-versions) and then run the following command:

    ```console
    $securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "examplepassword" -AsPlainText -Force
    $encryptedPassword = $securePassword | ConvertFrom-SecureString
    Write-Output $encryptedPassword
    6500780061006d0070006c006500700061007300730077006f0072006400
    ```

- Windows: Install WSL using `wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04`, then open the Ubuntu terminal, install powershell and run the same command above.

2. Go to Prowler Cloud/App and paste:

   • Client ID
   • Tenant ID
   • AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET from earlier
   • M365_USER the user using the correct assigned domain, more info here
   • M365_PASSWORD the password of the user

   

3. Click Next

   

4. Click Launch Scan