Configuration of SharePoint Online Inventory - Not Applicable if using EmpowerID SaaS
This article only applies if you are not using EmpowerID SaaS.
If you are not using EmpowerID SaaS and want EmpowerID to manage one or more of your SharePoint tenants, you need to configure one of those tenants as described in this article for EmpowerID to inventory your SharePoint Online (SPO) data. Please note that you must also deploy the SharePoint online microservice in each of your SharePoint tenants as depicted in the Deploying the SharePoint Online microservice topics.
Step 1 – Create a CosmosDB account
Create a Cosmos DB account with the following settings:
Account Name – Enter a name for database account
API – Core (SQL)
Location – Select the appropriate geographic location
Capacity mode – Provisioned throughput
Step 2 – Create a Storage Account
Create a storage account with the following settings:
Secure transfer required – Enabled
Allow Blob public access – Enabled
Allow storage account key access – Enabled
Minimum TLS version – Version 1.2
Blob access tier (default) – Hot
Large file shares – Disabled
Replication – Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
Azure Active Directory Domain services (Azure AD DS) – Disabled
Data Lake Storage Gen2 – Disabled
NFS v3 – Disabled
Copy the connection string for later use.
Step 3 – Create a Service Bus
Create a service bus with the basic pricing tier and copy the connection string for later use.
Sep 4 – Create an App Service for the AzGeneralServices Microservice
Create a Linux app service plan.
Add an app service for the AzGeneralServices microservice to the Linux app service plan with the following general settings:
Stack – .NET
Major version – .NET Core 3
FTP state – All allowed
HTTP version – 1.1
Web sockets – Off
Always on – Off
ARR affinity – Off
Debugging – Off
Client certificate mode – Ignore
Turn on system managed identity for the app service and download the publish profile from the overview blade.
In EmpowerID, publish the AzGeneralServices microservice to Azure.
Create a service principal in Azure active directory with the following settings:
Secret – Create a secret for the service principal and copy the value for later use.
Configure the service principal for Azure AD authentication.
Return to the Cosmos DB account created earlier and create a new container and DB for the AZ General Services microservice with the below settings. The DB will be used by the service to persist data whenever EmpowerID makes a call to the service.
Database Id – AzureGeneralService
Container Id – AzureGeneralService
Partition key – id
Step 5 – Create a Key Vault
Create an Azure Key Vault for the Azure General app service with all the default setting.
Create an access policy for the key vault with the following settings:
Key permissions
Get
Decrypt
Unwrap
Verify
Secret permissions
Get
List
Set
Delete
Purge
Service principal – Azure General service app
Add the following config settings to the AzGeneral service app service:
CosmosDbAuthKey – Primary key of the cosmos db account
CosmosDbContainerId – Container Id that was created in the above steps
CosmosDbEndpoint – URI of Cosmos db account
CosmosDbDatabaseId - Container Id that was created in the above steps
KeyVaultUrl – Vault Uri of the Key vault created in the above steps
Create config necessary for SPO Inventory using Azure General service.
Generate a unique GUID and keep it for reference. This Id is called config settings id.
Request URL of the Azure General service to call:
<Azure general service app service url>/app/config/GetById/<unique guid generated above>
Body of the request is shown below – Please change the details according to the comments.
Add a new item to the Cosmos DB
Currently, there is no UI for making this call in EmpowerID; therefore use a tool like Postman to make the call.