Register Lexis® Create DMS and create Service Principal for SharePoint
Step by step guide to set up Service Principal
- Go to https://portal.azure.com/ and click on "new registration" on the top left.

2. Complete the following information:
- Name: we suggest "Lexis® Create DMS", but you can choose what's convenient for you.
- Support account types: "Accounts in this organizational directory only" (first option)
- Redirect URL: leave empty
Click “register” to complete

3. Add permissions
- Go to API Permissions
- Click "Add a permission" on the left
- Select "Microsoft graph API" with the option "Application permissions"
- Search for the permission "Sites.Read.All".
- Alternatively, choose "Sites.Selected". As explained in the database review article, if the Sites.Selected permission is used, Lexis® Create DMS team needs to know the Site ID and Web ID of the Sharepoint Site. Please sent this information to your CSM.
❗️Be sure to also grant permissions to the service principal for the relevant sites as specified in this microsoft blogpost. Assigning permissions to a service principal is not possible through the Azure UI, only through REST API calls.
- Alternatively, choose "Sites.Selected". As explained in the database review article, if the Sites.Selected permission is used, Lexis® Create DMS team needs to know the Site ID and Web ID of the Sharepoint Site. Please sent this information to your CSM.
- Select this one and click Add Permissions

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Once this happened, click "Grant admin consent for {name}" on the permissions page

Go back to the integration guide to follow the next steps of the integration