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Approval required?

When you use “Sign in with Microsoft”, you may see a screen like this: image.png The “Approval required” screen is usually because Granola requests permission to view your calendar events. Granola requests the following Microsoft permissions:
  • User.Read — Read your basic profile (name and email address)
  • Calendars.Read — Read your calendar events
  • Calendars.Read.Shared — Read shared calendars you have access to
Granola also uses standard authentication scopes (openid, email, profile, offline_access) to sign you in. All permissions are read-only — Granola does not request write access to your calendars or any other Microsoft 365 data. If you see the “Request approval” button, we recommend this “justification” message: “I want to use Granola for my meeting notes. Granola needs to read my calendar events so that it can start and stop transcribing at the right times, and so that it can better summarize my meeting notes.”

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Admins: how to approve Granola

As an admin of your Microsoft 365 organization, to approve your user’s request:
  1. Go to Microsoft Entra admin center > Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Admin consent requests > My pending.
  2. Click on your user’s approval request. It will be called “Granola”: image.png
  3. Click “Review permissions and consent”: image.png
  4. Click “Approve”:
image.png Your Microsoft 365 organization members should now be able to sign in to Granola.

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If you don’t see the “Request approval” button

You may see “Need admin approval”, without a “Request approval” button: image.png This means your admin needs to enable “Admin consent requests”. As an admin of the Microsoft 365 organization:
  1. Go to Microsoft Entra admin center > Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Consent and permissions > Admin consent settings: image.png
  2. Set the toggle “Users can request admin consent to apps they are unable to consent to” to “Yes”.
  3. Ask the user to try signing in to Granola again. They should see a “Request approval” button.
  4. Follow the flow above to approve the request.

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If you are unable to enable “Admin consent requests”

If you are unable to enable “Admin consent requests”, one way to approve Granola for your organization is to sign in to Granola using your admin account. Download Granola, launch it, click “Sign in with Microsoft”, and you should see: image.png Check the box “Consent on behalf of your organisation”, then “Accept”. You will be signed in to Granola, and your users will now be able to sign in too.

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Admins: if you can’t sign in to Granola yourself

We are in the process of adding Granola to the “Microsoft Entra App Gallery”. Until then, please use one of the above methods.