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Automated registration and configuration of Microsoft AzueAD application for Microsoft 365 workload protection with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

How To


Summary

This document describes the automated registration and configuration of a Microsoft® Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) application. The application registration and configuration is required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus® to protect Microsoft 365 workloads.

Objective

The Windows® PowerShell script included in this document can be used to register and configure an application in Microsoft AzureAD. The application is required to protect Microsoft 365 with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
The manual creation of the AzureAD application and the application access right configuration required is document in the IBM Spectrum Protect documentation
The script included in this document performs the same steps automatically. This automated procedure allows a much faster and error free application registration.

Download script: SPPAzureADAppRegistration.ps1


 

Environment

The Windows PowerShell script can run in a Windows PowerShell environment on a Windows machine. The Windows PowerShell module "AzureAD" is required. If not installed already it can be installed automatically as part of the script run. 

 

Steps

Start the script that is included in this document. The script performs the following steps:
  • Request acknowledge of the user on application registration default values
  • Optionally allow to set application-specific values different from the default values
  • Request the login to Microsoft Azure by using Microsoft credentials
  • Register the application and configure the required setting 
  • Request acknowledge of the user to open the Microsoft AzureAD website to finalize the configuration  

 

Additional Information

Script output examples:
  1. Request acknowledge of the user on application registration default values
    image 10389
    Optionally allow to set application values different from the default values
    image 10392
  2. Request the login to Microsoft Azure that uses Microsoft credentials
    Login Azure
  3. Register the application and configure the required settings
    Request acknowledge of the user to open the Microsoft AzureAD website to finalize the configuration
    image 10400
  4. Open the browser window and redirect the user to the API permission page.
    image 10406
  5. List the credentials required for the Microsoft 365 registration in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface
    image 10408
  6. Quit the script

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
11 June 2021

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ibm16437493