Today I tested a backup solution for Office 365. Installation was very easy and within seconds I made a connection to my Office 365 test environment. I quickly entered my admin creds and hit enter a couple of times. Hmmm…. that went very smooth. The backup application made sure that there were enough permissions.
Okay, now I ready with the product evaluation. I want to remove those credentials! But how…. I found out that I had to look for it, so I thought it would be a nice idea to share my experience with my readers..
Login to your Office 365 tenant with Admin creds and go to the upper right and choose the options icon next to your name.
Go to Office 365.
You see all the applications that have (administrative) access to your tenant. You notice many default (web) apps. But notice the last application, Office 365 Backup. Click on details to verify that you have the right application. Ok? Now let’s remove those permissions. You can’t do this in this windows however. First you must go the My Account, and then notice the App permissions Pane. (3rd pane)
Now click on the three dots next to your application:
Choose the remove from tenant option. Et voila, your permissions are removed :
(Notice that the Office 365 Backup permissions are gone)
Nowadays more and more Office 365 tools & software is coming to the market. It would be nice that when uninstalling the product, the vendor also removes the permissions made..