Set up ShareGate Apricot to gain visibility over the important events across your Microsoft 365 groups and teams lifecycle.
Collaborate with group owners to keep your environment clutter-free, and course-correct as you scale.
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Security considerations
Security is one of our highest priorities. We comply to industry standards and we have internal policies to ensure your data is protected.
For an overview of our security policies click here.
For more specific information about security with the app click here.
First sign in and user access
Global admin or Privileged role permissions are required to complete the first sign-in so you can consent the app.
Once the app has been consented, anyone with SharePoint admin or Groups admin permissions can use ShareGate Apricot.
To learn more about granting consent to the app click here.
Though you cannot explicitly give access to your users without proper permissions (at least SharePoint admin), you can restrict users that already have access.
To learn more about managing access to the app click here.
How-to
To access ShareGate Apricot for the first time, head to https://sharegate.com/products/sharegate-apricot and click on 
in the top right corner. Then, you can use your Microsoft Credentials to sign in.
You can find more information on accessing the app with a ShareGate Productivity Subscription or buying a license here.
When you sign in for the first time, the application will crawl your tenant to capture the required information.
Tip: The initial crawl of your environment can take some time. This is a good opportunity to review your settings and establish new policies.
Your dashboard
With your policies in place and your environment crawled completely, we suggest starting with the dashboard.
Click on Dashboard in the top menu to access the screen. From there you can review your groups at a glance and check items in your To-do list. For more information click here.
Explore the app
Your settings and dashboard likely gave you an idea of what you can do with the app. Now you can explore the sections of ShareGate Apricot to discover how you can:
- Entrust owners.
- Assign owners to orphaned groups.
- Categorize your groups with group purposes and group sensitivity labels.
- Manage external sharing.
- Archive and delete unused groups.
- Edit the membership of your groups.
- Quickly review and manage any Microsoft 365 Group.
- Review the Microsoft 365 Activity on your tenant.