How to approve Faraday for your Office 365 org
When your employees try to connect Faraday to their work Outlook account, they may hit a "need admin approval" screen if your Microsoft 365 tenant restricts third-party app consent. One approval from you clears that for everyone.
Here's exactly what to do — about 5 minutes start to finish.
Before you start
You'll need a Global Administrator or Cloud Application Administrator role in Microsoft Entra ID — lower-privilege roles can't grant tenant-wide consent. Have Faraday's Application (Client) ID ready; find it here - c404e500-bf2f-464f-94f7-dec398974a62.Step 1: Open Enterprise applications
Go to entra.microsoft.com and sign in with your admin account. In the left sidebar, navigate to Identity → Applications → Enterprise applications.Step 2: Find Faraday
Search for Faraday in the Enterprise applications list. If any user in your org has already attempted to connect, it will already be here. If not, you can add it using the Application (Client) ID from above— or take the fastest route: email team@faraday.email for a direct admin consent link. Clicking that link while signed in as a Global Admin pre-consents for your entire tenant in a single step.Step 3: Grant admin consent
Select Faraday from the list, then go to Security → Permissions in the sidebar. Click Grant admin consent for [your organisation], confirm the sign-in prompt, and you're done. All users in your tenant can now connect Faraday without hitting an approval block.By default this covers your entire organisation — which is what we'd recommend. If you'd prefer to limit access to specific users or security groups first, go to Properties, set Assignment required to Yes, and add the relevant users or groups under Users and groups. You can open it up to everyone later from the same screen.
If your tenant's user consent policy is set to block all third-party apps, this admin consent still applies — it creates an explicit approval for Faraday without changing your broader consent policy.
On permissions and security
Faraday requests standard Microsoft Graph permissions for mail and contacts — the minimum needed to organise, and draft emails in Outlook. No access to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, or anything outside the mailbox.More importantly: Faraday is end-to-end encrypted, ESOF-certified, uses AES-256 protocols, and has absolutely zero human processing. Neither do AI models train on your data. If your organisation needs formal compliance documentation, data residency details, or audit log information, email team@faraday.email and we'll turn it around within one business day.
Once approved, your team connects in under a minute — and their inboxes become much smarter from day one.