How to connect to Microsoft 365 activities

Microsoft 365 activities have different authentication flows that you can choose from. Your choice is dependent on: the type of automation mode you plan to run (attended or unattended), the type of projects you want to build (cross-platform or Windows), whether you use Integration Service or not, the type of permissions you want to grant (delegated or app-only), and your application authentication requirements (consult with your administrator if you're unsure which authentication requirements apply to your application).

^* Integration Service keeps the connection token alive by refreshing the token. After a certain period of time, you must manually refresh the connection by re-authentication.

To learn about the specifics of each option, see:

To understand the differences between delegated and application permissions, see the Microsoft official documentation: Comparison of delegated and application permissions.

Briefly, the differences are as follows:

For both delegated and application permissions, you can restrict what the application can and can't access using the scopes defined when you create the app. Refer to Scopes and permissions in the Microsoft documentation.

Many organizations require an administrator's consent before creating a connection to an external application. The admin consent workflow requires an admin to approve the app registration to specific users or groups before a connection is established. For more information, see Overview of admin consent workflow and User and admin consent in Microsoft Entra ID in the Microsoft documentation.

Both Microsoft 365 Scope and Integration Service connections support single tenant applications and multitenant applications. To learn the difference between the two, refer to Who can sign in to you app? in the Microsoft official documentation.

Both Microsoft 365 Scope and Integration Service connections support multiple Azure environments. For details, see Microsoft Graph and Graph Explorer service root endpoints.