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Overview

In order to user the Quicklinks customer portal, we need to verify your identity in order to keep your subscription safe. In addition, in order to enable Enhanced Security for Quicklinks, certain access needs to be granted to the Quicklinks application set. All of this access grants are described below.

Note that in order to provide the requested access grants, you need to access the Quicklinks consent grant page.

The first consent shown in the Quicklinks consent grant page is to use the portal itself. In order to secure your information we need to verify your identity and this access grant enables us to do this. This grant can be activated by clicking the first Allow access button on the Consent page, as shown below.

Portal Allow Access

It is important to note, depending on your organization's specific Microsoft 365 cloud settings, you may not be able to enable this login consent. In this case, you will need to contact your IT administrator and send them a link to the consent page so that they can grant the required consent on your behalf.

Administrator Consents​

The first consent shown on the Quicklinks consent grant page is for access to the portal itself, and in most organizations users can do this themselves. However, certain of the consents, which are required for enabling Enhanced Security in Quicklinks, can only be granted by an organization's IT adminstrator. Each of these is described below.

In order to enable Single Sign-On for Quicklinks, an adminstrator can pre-grant this consent on behalf of all users in the organization so that they can securely and transparently sign in to Quicklinks without any additional action required on their behalf.

Tenant User Access​

Part of the feature set of Quicklinks is adjusting certain settings in specific scenarios. In order to support this, Quicklinks can lock these settings so that only Team Owners can make these changes, but in order to securely identify Team Owners, the Quicklinks API needs to be able to access the Microsoft 365 Graph API for the specific channel and Team and verify a specific user's Ownership status.

In addition to the above, the Quicklinks Customer Portal itself allows Microsoft 365 Tenant and Teams service administrators to maintain the settings for any Quicklinks subscription, but in order to do this is requires access to your organization's Azure Active Directory to verify that the specific user indeed has the administrative role they require. Enableing this consent provides the ability to peform this verification.