Set up your Microsoft Azure account

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    • Complete the following setup tasks in your Microsoft Azure portal prior to installing the ServiceNow application for this integration. This account permits access to the Microsoft Exchange Online tenant for email message details.

    Before you begin

    Role required: Microsoft Azure portal administrator

    This account is required to access the Microsoft Exchange Online tenant to gather additional email message details and to delete email messages. This account is set up in the Microsoft Azure portal.

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    Procedure

    If you have not created an application ID for OAUTH authentication in the Microsoft Azure portal, follow these steps.
    1. Log in to the Microsoft Azure portal using your Azure portal administrator credentials.
    2. Enter App registrations in the Search box.
    3. Select New registration.
    4. Fill in the Register an application form that is displayed.
      Field Description
      Name Name for the application. In this example, ServiceNow Exchange Online Integration is entered.
      Supported account types For this account, in Supported account types, select Accounts in this organizational directory only (your organization name). This domain is used for the email searches.
      Redirect URL (optional) If you enter a value for this field, it is not used by the integration.
    5. Select Register.
      An Application ID is created. This ID is similar to a user name. You enter this value on the configuration page in the OAUTH Application ID field during the configuration step in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance that is described in Configure the Microsoft Exchange Online integration.
    6. Under Manage select, Manifest.
    7. Find the requiredResourceAccess entry (on or about line 52).
    8. Modify resourceAppId, resourceAccess id, and resourceAccess type values with the following code snippet:
      Code snippit.
    9. Select Save.
    10. Under Manage select, API permissions.
    11. Select Add a Permission.
    12. In the Request API permissions pane that is displayed, select Microsoft Graph.
    13. In the Request API permissions pane that is displayed, select Application permissions.
    14. In the Select Permissions field that is displayed, enter Threat and select the ThreatHunting.Read.All check box.
    15. Select Grant Admin Consent for <Organization>.
    16. Select Yes.
      The Status value should now be Granted for <Organization>.Grant admin consent.

    What to do next

    You are ready to set up your ServiceNow AI Platform® instance for the integration.