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Microsoft admin approval for emails

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Written by Patrick Allen
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Some Microsoft applications require administrator approval before users authenticate against them. If a user tries to auth with an application and its admin hasn’t granted their consent, Microsoft displays a notification that prompts them to either continue without permission, or log in as an admin and grant permission.


A Microsoft "Need admin approval" notification.

✅ Solution:

As an admin: Log in to the Microsoft Entra admin center and update the Admin consent requests settings.

  1. Set Users can request admin consent to apps they are unable to consent to to Yes.

  2. Configure the Consent request expires after time.

The Microsoft Entra admin center showing the "Admin consent settings" page.

3. Have the user request admin access & grant access from Entra admin

4. Optional at this point you can disable the setting enabled in Step 1 to prevent users from requesting access to other apps.

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