Destination Platform prerequisites - DropBox to Office 365

Mark Siddall

Updated June 29, 2023 14:43

These steps should be completed in your Destination environment.

Setting up Application Impersonation

Application Impersonation can be configured for your admin account within CloudM Migrate. Select 'Setup Administrative Permissions' in the Destination Platform Settings page.

Application Impersonation can also be configured manually as below. If Impersonation is not available in your environment, please follow the steps for Delegated Access.

Alternative Application Impersonation Setup

First login to the Office 365 Exchange Admin Portal. Go to 'permissions' on the left hand side bar and click the + symbol in order to add a new role group. Enter 'CloudMigratorImpersonation' in both the Name and Description fields.

Next, click the + symbol under 'Roles', select ApplicationImpersonation, click 'add' and the click 'OK'.

Next, click the + symbol under 'Members', select your administrator user, click 'add' and then click 'OK'.

Click 'Save' and you will see the impersonation role listen in admin roles. Application impersonation is now set up.

Setting up Delegated Access

Delegated access gives a user account permission to access another. Delegated access must be set up if you are not using an Enterprise plan of Office 365

First login to the Office 365 Exchange Admin Portal. Go to 'recipients' then under 'mailboxes', double-click the user you wish to delegate access to then go to 'Mailbox Delegation' and click the '+' symbol under 'Full Access'

Next, select your administrator user, click 'add' and then click 'OK'

Click 'Save' and your administrator user now has the required access for the migration to occur, repeat this process for all users you wish to migrate.

Office 365 Groups Azure App Registration

The following steps are required to migrate from/to Office 365 Groups.

Login to the Microsoft Azure portal for your chosen domain.
Click 'Azure Active Directory'and then'App registrations'

Click 'New registration'
- Enter a name for your application (This can be changed at any time).
- Supported Account Types should be left as the default 'Accounts in this organizational directory only (NAME OF COMPANY)'
- Redirect URI is not required.
- Click 'Register'
On successfully registering your application you will be redirected to the below screen.
NOTE : Open Notepad and Copy 'Application (client) ID'. This is the 'Client Id' required in the CloudM Migrate configuration.

Click 'Certificates & secrets'
'New client secret'
Select 'Never'
Click 'Add'
Client Secret will be generated and the client secrets table populated like below.
NOTE : Copy the value generated and paste the value into notepad. This is the 'Client Secret' required in the CloudM Migrate configuration.

Click 'API Permissions'
Remove the default 'User.Read' by selecting the row and clicking 'Remove permission'
Click 'Add a permission', under 'Microsoft APIs' select 'Microsoft Graph'
Click 'Application Permission'
Under 'Select Permissions' type the name of the permission you would like to add. Once all added, click 'Grant admin consent for '(Name of company)'

If you have not already done so, please insure that all permissions have been granted by clicking the 'Grant admin consent for (Company name)' button. .

Office 365 Groups as a Source

Directory.Read.All
Directory.ReadWrite.All
Group.Read.All
Sites.ReadWrite.All

Office 365 Groups as a Destination

AuditLog.Read.All
Directory.Read.All
Group.Read.All
Group.ReadWrite.All
Sites.ReadWrite.All