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title: "Assigning Directory and Audit Permissions for Discovery and Visibility"
slug: "assign-directory-permissions-discovery-visibility"
updated: 2026-04-16T06:14:26Z
published: 2026-04-29T10:51:57Z
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# Assigning Directory and Audit Permissions for Discovery and Visibility

Perform the following steps to assign directory permissions for the Britive application created in Azure:

1. Log in to Azure with administrator privileges.
2. Select **Microsoft Entra ID**.
3. Select **App registrations** from the navigation menu.
4. Select the "Britive" application (that is, the application created in the previous step [Registering Britive application in Microsoft Entra ID](/v1/docs/registering-britive-application-in-azure)).
5. Click **API permissions** from the navigation menu.
6. Click **+ Add a permission**.
7. Select **Microsoft Graph.**
8. Select **Application permissions**.
9. Search and click on **Directory** and select the permission "**Directory.Read.All**".
10. Search and click on **Audit** and select the permission "**AuditLog.Read.All**".
11. Click the **Add permissions** button.
12. Ensure that the option **Grant admin consent for Default Directory** is checked.
13. Select **Yes** on the warning displayed, whether to grant consent for the required permissions for all accounts in the Default Directory. A message is displayed that admin consent has been granted successfully for the requested permission (in this case, **Directory.Read.All** and **AuditLog.Read.All**) for all accounts in the default directory. The **Directory.Read.All** permission reads AD-level roles, AD Users, and AD groups in the Azure application. The **AuditLog.Read.All** permission, along with a Microsoft Entra ID Premium P1/P2 license, is needed to read the last sign-in date of AD Users in the Azure application. The last sign-in date of the user is not returned who has never signed in or last signed in before April 2020.