- Office 365 Cloud App Security Portal
- Microsoft 365 Cloud Storage Explained
- Cloud Storage Office 365
- Office 365 Cloud
This article provides instructions for connecting Microsoft Cloud App Security to your existing Office 365 account using the app connector API. This connection gives you visibility into and control over Office 365 use. For information about how Cloud App Security protects Office 365, see Protect Office 365.
Cloud App Security supports the legacy Office 365 Dedicated Platform as well as the latest offerings of Office 365 services (commonly referred as the vNext release family of Office 365). Cloud App Security doesn't support the Legacy Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS).
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- Microsoft Access — a part of the Microsoft 365 office suite — offers a robust desktop-class relational database that doesn't need a server to run. Access databases work from a fixed file on your hard drive or a network share and offers sophisticated tools for creating tables, queries, forms, and reports.
- Office 365 is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office product line. The brand encompasses plans that allow use of the Microsoft Office software suite over the life of the subscription, as well as cloud-based software-as-a-service products for business environments, such as hosted Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, and SharePoint, among others.
- O365 (Microsoft Office 365) is a cloud-based Office solution that brings together the best tools for the way people work today. MS O365 Office solution that includes Email, Microsoft Office suite and other services such as Skype for Business, Outlook, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams etc. Build a great experiance for end users.
In some cases, a vNext service release differs slightly at the administrative and management levels from the standard Office 365 offering.
Cloud App Security supports the following Office 365 apps:
- Dynamics 365 CRM
- Exchange (only appears after activities from Exchange are detected in the portal, and requires you to turn on auditing)
- Office
- OneDrive
- Power Automate
- Power BI (only appears after activities from Power BI are detected in the portal, and requires you to turn on auditing)
- SharePoint
- Skype for Business
- Teams (only appears after activities from Teams are detected in the portal)
- Yammer
Office 365 Cloud App Security Portal
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Cloud App Security integrates directly with Office 365's audit logs and receives all audited events from all supported services, such as PowerApps, Forms, Sway, and Stream.
How to connect Office 365 to Cloud App Security
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- You must have at least one assigned Office 365 license to connect Office 365 to Cloud App Security.
- To enable monitoring of Office 365 activities in Cloud App Security, you are required to enable auditing in the Office Security and Compliance Center.
- Exchange administrator audit logging, which is enabled by default in Office 365, logs an event in the Office 365 audit log when an administrator (or a user who has been assigned administrative privileges) makes a change in your Exchange Online organization. Changes made using the Exchange admin center or by running a cmdlet in Windows PowerShell are logged in the Exchange admin audit log. For more detailed information about admin audit logging in Exchange, see Administrator audit logging.
- Exchange Mailbox audit logging must be turned on for each user mailbox before user activity in Exchange Online is logged, see Exchange Mailbox activities.
- If Office apps are enabled, groups that are part of Office 365 are also imported to Cloud App Security from the specific Office apps, for example, if SharePoint is enabled, Office 365 groups are imported as SharePoint groups as well.
- You must enable auditing in PowerBI to get the logs from there. Once auditing is enabled, Cloud App Security starts getting the logs (with a delay of 24-72 hours).
- You must enable auditing in Dynamics 365 to get the logs from there. Once auditing is enabled, Cloud App Security starts getting the logs (with a delay of 24-72 hours).
- If your Azure Active Directory is set to automatically sync with the users in your Active Directory on-premises environment the settings in the on-premises environment override the Azure AD settings and use of the Suspend user governance action is reverted.
- For Azure AD sign-in activities, Cloud App Security only surfaces interactive sign-in activities and sign-in activities from legacy protocols such as ActiveSync. Noninteractive sign-in activities may be viewed in the Azure AD audit log.
- Multi-geo deployments are only supported for OneDrive
- In the Connected apps page, click the plus button and select Office 365.
- In the Office 365 pop-up, click Connect Office 365.
- In the Office 365 components page, select the options you require, and then click Connect.Note
- For best protection, we recommend selecting all Office 365 components.
- The Office 365 files component, requires the Office 365 activities component and Cloud App Security file monitoring (Settings > Files > Enable file monitoring).
- After Office 365 is displayed as successfully connected, click Close.
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After connecting Office 365, you will see data from a week back including any third-party applications connected to Office 365 that are pulling APIs. For third-party apps that weren't pulling APIs prior to connection, you see events from the moment you connect Office 365 because Cloud App Security turns on any APIs that had been off by default.
If you have any problems connecting the app, see Troubleshooting App Connectors.
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I’m using Office 365 but I seem unable to share and sync my mail, calendar and contact items between multiple computers even though I’m allowed to install it on up to 5 devices.
I was told that Office 365 was “Cloud Based” and I’m signed in with my Microsoft Account to Office, so shouldn’t I be able to do this?
Well, not necessarily. It depends on whether you are talking about Office 365 for Home or Office 365 for Business.
Both are “Cloud Based” but both in a different form.
Office 365 for Home
Office 365 for Home isn’t “Cloud Storage” but “Cloud Based Software Delivery” or “Software as a Service”. This subscription based service delivers, installs and updates the latest version of the Office Suite via the Internet via a special streaming method also known as “Click-to-Run” or the Windows 10 Microsoft Store app.
Microsoft 365 Cloud Storage Explained
This only applies to the software and not to the storage of any data so nothing is synched back to the cloud just by having an Office 365 for Home subscription.
You can however combine it with a mail account which does sync with the cloud such as IMAP (mail only), Outlook.com (mail, calendar, contacts and tasks) or an Exchange account (full mailbox)
Note: POP3 accounts don’t sync anything (not even read/unread status), but you can configure it so that you can at least receive your emails on all your devices. Alternatively, you can use your current POP3 address to sign up with Outlook.com and be able to sync your mail, calendar, contacts and tasks between devices.
Office 365 for Business
Office 365 for Business is almost the reverse of Office 365 for Home and does actually store your data in the cloud (amongst other things). For Outlook, the component of Office 365 for Business which does this is called Exchange Online.
As said before, an Exchange account will sync all your mailbox data via the cloud with other computers on which you have Outlook installed. This data can also be accessed and synched via practically any tablet and smartphone or via a web browser.
The most complete subscription of Office 365 for Business also includes a license for the latest version of Office Professional Plus. This is offered in a similar way as with the Office 365 for Home subscription.
Signed in with Microsoft Account doesn’t sync Outlook
When you are signed into Office with your Microsoft Account, then various Office settings are stored “in the Cloud” which are synched to other devices on which you use an Office 365 installation (or any Office 2013, 2016 or 2019 suite).
It also allows you to connect Office with other Cloud based services such as OneDrive, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr and some more.
In any case, signing in with your Microsoft Account to Office 365 for Home, Office 2013, 2016 or 2019 doesn’t mean you are synching data stored in Outlook with or via “the Cloud”.
As mentioned before; You need to use the correct type of mail account if you want to be able to sync your email, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc… stored in Outlook.
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Sharing via Office 365
Cloud Storage Office 365
When you want to share your data with others, then the other person must also be on Office 365 for Business. In addition, this person must also be part of the same Exchange Organization (read: a license within the same subscription account or ‘tenant’). Both having an Exchange Online subscription of your own will not be enough and won’t allow you to share folders.
Office 365 Cloud
An alternative would be to create a new IMAP or Outlook.com account and then share credentials.