SharePoint Online Permissions Audit Script

It is well known that SharePoint permissions are notoriously difficult to manage. This script is designed to help you audit permissions across your SharePoint Online sites.

✨ Features

• Audit permissions for all sites in a SharePoint Online tenant - all the way down to list and library level.
• Capture permissions granted to Security (Entra ID) and Microsoft 365 groups.
• Uses a modern authentication flow that does not require a user to be logged in or have access to all sites in the tenant.

📝 Output

The script will output a CSV file with the following columns:

Column Name	Description
UserPrincipalName	The user's UPN/email address
SiteUrl	The URL of the site
SiteAdmin	Is the user a site admin?
GroupName	If the user is not a site admin, what SharePoint group are they in? (also captures sharing links)
PermissionLevel	The permission level granted to the SharePoint group, e.g full control, read, edit etc.
ListName	The title of a list or library where the user has unique permissions.
ListPermission	The permission level granted to the user on the list or library.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Global Adminstrator Role
• PowerShell 7 or later with the latest versions of PnP.PowerShell and MSAL.PS modules installed.
• A self-signed certificate for use with the app registration. See this article for more information.

Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell -Scope CurrentUser
Install-Module -Name MSAL.PS -Scope CurrentUser

Create an Entra ID App Registration

Follow the steps in this article to create an app registration in Azure AD. Make sure you grant the app the following permissions.

Graph API

• Sites.Read.All
• Directory.Read.All

SharePoint API

• Sites.FullControl.All
• User.Read.All

Usage

The intention is for this script to be called by a parent script that will pass in the required parameters. This allows you to run the script against multiple users and potentially multiple tenants. Below is an example of how you might call the script.

# audit.ps1 - Create in the same directory as Get-SharePointOnlinePermissions.ps1

$tenantName = "contoso" # The name of your tenant, e.g. contoso.sharepoint.com
$csvPath = "C:\temp\permissions.csv" # The path to the output CSV file
$clientID = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" # The client ID of the app registration
$certificatePath = "C:\temp\certificate.pfx" # The path to the certificate file
$append = $true # Should the script append to the CSV file or overwrite it?

$users = @(
    "john@contoso.com",
    "jane@contoso.com"
)

foreach ($user in $users) {
    .\Get-SharePointOnlinePermissions.ps1 -TenantName $tenantName -CsvPath $csvPath -ClientID $clientID -CertificatePath $certificatePath -Append:$append -UserEmail $user
}

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

TODO:

• Replace MSAL.PS cmdlets with a non-deprecated alternative