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One connector covers both Microsoft file stores: your OneDrive folders and your SharePoint document libraries. Files flow into Brink’s Document Center — versioned, parsed (with OCR for scans), classified, and searchable with page-level citations. Who can connect: organization owners and admins for a shared connection; any member can connect their own OneDrive from Profile → My integrations.
Work and school accounts only. Brink signs you in through Microsoft’s organizational endpoint, so a personal Microsoft account (outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com) cannot be used — personal accounts have no SharePoint sites at all.

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Connect OneDrive & SharePoint

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Open Integrations

On the Integrations page, click the OneDrive & SharePoint card, then Connect OneDrive & SharePoint.For a personal connection, go to Profile → My integrations and click Connect instead.
Integrations page with the OneDrive & SharePoint drawer open

The OneDrive & SharePoint drawer — Connect, and the Connection method section below it

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Authorize with Microsoft

Sign in with your work or school account and approve the requested permissions: read your files (Files.Read.All), read SharePoint sites (Sites.Read.All), read your profile (User.Read), and stay signed in (offline_access). All of them are read-only.
In many Microsoft 365 tenants these are admin-consent permissions — a Microsoft 365 administrator may have to approve them before the connection works.
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Bind folders and libraries

Brink returns you to the Integrations page and opens Bind folders to a project automatically. Pick the Project, tick what Brink should sync, and click Bind n folders. Choose Skip for now to bind later.The picker is a drill-down. The top level (All locations) lists All files (root) — your own OneDrive — followed by every SharePoint Site you can see. Click Open on a site to list its document Libraries, then Open a library to walk into its folders. Tick any row to bind it; already-bound rows are marked Bound.
An organization connection with no binding syncs nothing at all — Brink will not walk an entire tenant’s files and publish them org-wide. Bind at least one folder or library to finish the setup.
To add bindings later, open the OneDrive & SharePoint card, and on the account click Bind folders — the same picker opens. You can also bind from a project’s Integrations tab on the Projects page.
Bindings are drive-aware: the same folder name in two different SharePoint libraries stays two separate bindings, and you can bind one library into several projects.

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What gets synced

Every file in each bound folder or document library, including all of its subfolders, flows into the Document Center — stored, versioned, read page by page (with OCR for scans), and made searchable, keeping the page and line behind every citation.
  • Unchanged files are skipped. Brink compares each file’s content version against what it already holds, so renaming a file does not re-ingest it and a re-sync downloads only what actually changed.
  • Deletions carry over. A file deleted in OneDrive or SharePoint is marked deleted in Brink, and so is a file moved out of a bound folder.
  • Renames and moves are tracked by the file’s identity rather than its path, so a reorganized library does not produce duplicates.
Very large files are recorded by name and location but not read — Brink’s per-file limit is 300 MB by default.

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Use your own Microsoft app

By default Brink connects through Brink’s own Microsoft app. Organization owners and admins can instead point this connector at their own Microsoft Entra ID app registration — the usual reason is a tenant policy that only permits apps registered in-house. Open Integrations → OneDrive & SharePoint → Connection method. The card shows which app is in use (Brink’s app, badged Default, or Your own OneDrive & SharePoint app, badged In use). Click Use your own OneDrive & SharePoint developer app to expand the panel.
OneDrive connection method panel with redirect URI and client credential fields

Connection method — the Redirect URI to copy, and the two credential fields

Pointing this connector at your own app does not affect Outlook, Outlook Calendar, or Microsoft Teams — they keep using their own app settings.

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Register the app in Microsoft Entra ID

You’ll need an account that can create app registrations in your tenant. It takes about 10 minutes, once per organization.
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Create the app registration

In the Azure portal, open Microsoft Entra ID → App registrations → New registration. Name it something recognizable, such as Brink Connector.For Supported account types, choose Accounts in this organizational directory only if you only ever connect accounts from your own tenant, or Accounts in any organizational directory (multitenant) if you also connect accounts from partner tenants. Do not choose an option that includes personal Microsoft accounts — Brink does not use them.
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Add Brink's Redirect URI

In Brink, open Integrations → OneDrive & SharePoint → Connection method → Use your own OneDrive & SharePoint developer app and copy the value under Redirect URI — add this to your app’s allowed redirect URIs.In the app registration, open Authentication → Add a platform → Web, paste the URI, and save. It must match character-for-character.
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Grant the delegated permissions

Open API permissions → Add a permission → Microsoft Graph → Delegated permissions and add:Then click Grant admin consent for <your tenant>.
Without Sites.Read.All the connector still works, but the picker shows only your OneDrive — no SharePoint sites at all.
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Create a client secret and copy the IDs

Open Certificates & secrets → Client secrets → New client secret, pick an expiry, and copy the secret Value immediately — Azure only shows it once. Then open Overview and copy the Application (client) ID.

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Save it in Brink

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Paste the credentials

Back in the Brink drawer, paste the values into OneDrive & SharePoint OAuth client ID and OneDrive & SharePoint OAuth client secret, then click Save credentials. The secret is stored encrypted and write-only — once saved it is only ever shown masked.Only the fields you fill in are saved, so you can rotate the secret later without retyping the client ID.
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Connect

Click Connect OneDrive & SharePoint and authorize as usual. Existing connections keep working; the next connect uses your app.
To go back, click Use Brink’s app instead in the same panel and confirm.

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Notes

  • OneDrive & SharePoint syncs on the regular schedule, roughly every 15 minutes. You can force one at any time with Sync now.
  • No SharePoint sites in the picker? The picker shows the hint “Don’t see your SharePoint sites? Reconnect OneDrive to grant site access.” — connections made before Brink asked for site access list only OneDrive. Click Reconnect on the account and approve the permissions again.
  • A personal connection with no binding covers your whole OneDrive, and everything from it stays visible only to you.
  • Microsoft offers no way for Brink to revoke its own access. Disconnecting deletes Brink’s stored credentials; a Microsoft 365 admin can also remove the app under Entra ID → Enterprise applications.