How to Grant Application Impersonation Rights in Office 365 Cloud?

Here, in this blog, I am going to talk about Impersonation rights in Exchange Online and provide a step-by-step guide on how to grant Application Impersonation Rights in Office 365.

Application Impersonation is a significant feature of the Office 365 Cloud environment that allows dealing with multiple Exchange Online mailboxes. The role permits to access several Office 365 mailboxes through a single account. It allows performing activities to impersonate user mailboxes on their behalf. This feature was created and handled by only Office 365 Administrator.

Now, let’s see how to use the Exchange Online Portal and Windows PowerShell to configure and check the Impersonation rights in Exchange Online.

Method 1: How to Assign Office 365 Impersonation Rights using the Exchange Admin Centre?

Below are the steps to check Impersonation Rights in Office 365. An administrator can follow the below steps and assign permission.

Step 1: Go to the Exchange Admin Portal and click Roles >> Admin role.

Step 2: Click on “Compliance Management” then press on Permissions

Step 3: Search the Application Impersonation option, check, and click on the Save button.

Step 4: You can also assign members as well and add multiple members for the role.

To Grant Full Access Permission to Office 365 Admin Mailbox

Step 1: Exchange Admin Portal and hit Recipients. Under the mailbox section, select the user to whom you want to give the Full Access Permission.

Step 2: Click on Mailbox Delegation. Then, in the Full Access option, add the user, Edit button > Add member and Save.

Method 2: How to Grant Impersonation Rights to Office 365 Mailbox using PowerShell?

Step 1: Run the Windows PowerShell as an Administrator and run the below command to set the execution policy as unrestricted to connect the PowerShell to Office 365.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Step 2: Execute the given command and log in to Exchange Online.

$livecred = Get-Credential

Step 3: Create the new session in the Exchange Online account.

$s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Step 4: Import the new session.

$importresults= Import-PSSession $s

Step 5: Run the given command for organization management.

Enable-OrganizationCustomization

Step 6: Assign Impersonation Role to the mailbox.

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role “ApplicationImpersonation” -User UserName

Conclusion

I hope from this blog, you have understood the process of how to Grant Application Impersonation Rights in Office 365 using both PowerShell and Exchange Online interface. With the help of the above two methods, the Exchange Online Administrator can easily perform the Office 365 impersonation rights.

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