Administrator Consent and Service Principals
On Demand Migration requires access to the customer’s Microsoft Entra ID and Office 365 tenancies. The customer grants that access using the Microsoft Admin Consent process, which will create a Service Principal in the customer's Microsoft Entra ID with minimum consents required by On Demand Migration for SharePoint. The Service Principal is created using Microsoft's OAuth certificate based client credentials grant flow.
Customers can revoke Admin Consent at any time. For more details, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/enterprise-apps/delete-application-portal and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skype-sdk/trusted-application-api/docs/tenantadminconsent.
The base consents required by Quest On Demand and On Demand Migration is shown below.
| Quest On Demand - Core - Basic | Quest On Demand - Migration - Basic |
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In addition to the base consents required by On Demand Migration, On Demand Migration for SharePoint requires the following consents:
Role based access control
Quest On Demand is configured with default roles that cannot be edited or deleted, and allows you to add custom roles to make permissions more granular. Each access control role has a specific set of permissions that determines what tasks a user assigned to the role can perform. For more information about role-based access control, see the Quest On Demand Migration User Guide.
Azure datacenter security
Microsoft Azure datacenters have the highest possible physical security and are considered among the most secure and well protected datacenters in the world. They are subject to regular audits and certifications including Service Organization Controls (SOC) 1, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005.
Relevant references with additional information about the Windows Azure datacenter security can be found here:
- Microsoft Azure Trust Center: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/trusted-cloud/
- Microsoft Trust Center Compliance: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trust-center/compliance/compliance-overview?service=Azure#Icons
- Microsoft’s submission to the Cloud Security Alliance STAR registry: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/registry/microsoft/
- Whitepaper: Standard Response to Request for Information – Security and Privacy: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26647
- Microsoft Global Datacenters: Security & Compliance: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/global-datacenters
- Azure data security and encryption best practices: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/data-encryption-best-practices
Overview of data managed by On Demand Migration for SharePoint
On Demand Migration for SharePoint accesses customer SharePoint data (content) from the source tenancy and writes the data to a SharePoint site on the target tenancy.
- Metadata that defines the SharePoint site structure and properties is temporarily stored in memory and deleted when the migration is completed.
- Documents stored in the document libraries and lists of the SharePoint site are temporarily stored in Azure blob storage for the duration of the migration. The storage container is deleted when the migration is complete.
- Manifest files and associated migration log files may be retained by the application for troubleshooting purposes. Manifest files contain data to identify the list items and documents. The troubleshooting data is stored in a separate storage account. Troubleshooting data is automatically deleted after 30 days.
- The application does not require or store any passwords.