Connecting OneDrive to Confluence Cloud for limited users

[Shiva Jamei]

Thanks for the info in this support, however, I would like to know if the Admin of Confluence can activate this OneDrive connection feature only for limited users.

Is it something that can be handled as a permission for limited users, instead of enabling it for thousands of user in our Confluence?

Resolving "Approval required" message when connecting OneDrive to Confluence Cloud | Confluence | Atlassian Support

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shiva Jamei 

The OneDrive import feature only supports `.docx` files. If you need to embed Excel or PowerPoint files, you should look at Smart Links or Marketplace apps. Data Center was working little different here.

Regarding permissions, Confluence lacks a native setting to restrict OneDrive integration to a specific group. You can manage this on the Microsoft side. Your Entra ID admin can restrict user assignment for the Atlassian enterprise application to your pilot group. Anyone else will be blocked when they try to complete the Microsoft authorization.

Best,

Arek🤠

[Shiva Jamei]

Thanks a lot, 

In fact I am inserting the links to the Sharepoint of the Presntations, but the message is the same, Connect your OneDrive account to see the presentations.

And when I try to connect it, it needs Microsoft adminstrator approval, which I need to ask from my company to do that.

[Shiva Jamei]

We need to have powerpoint/excel documentations as embeded in the confluence page, that's the need that we through that OneDrive integration can solve it.

[Shiva Jamei]

@Germán Morales _ Hiera   Many thanks.

Currently this feature is not active in our Confluence instance, and need Admin approval. I have  requested from our Admin  team to evaluate it and they have some concerns in terms of operation support, if this feature is being activated for 6000 users.

In that case I would like to know if the Admin team can enable it for limited users, so if you are not in that group, you still see the sceenshot and cannot use it.

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

@Shiva Jamei  This isn't something Confluence's admin console controls at all, on either side.

The OneDrive import is a personal connection: each user hits Import, connects their own Microsoft account, and pulls in their files. It's gated by ordinary space permissions, the same as importing a Word document, not by a separate OneDrive permission you could hand out to specific people. There's no toggle in Confluence to scope it to a subset of users.

What actually decides who gets past that "approval required" screen sits in Microsoft Entra. The Confluence Cloud application there can be set to require user assignment, and your Entra admin can assign only specific groups to it. Everyone outside those groups keeps hitting the same approval prompt, without you touching Confluence permissions at all.

Worth ruling out too: if what you actually need is Rovo search picking up OneDrive files rather than the page import feature, that's a separate connector under Atlassian Administration, and it doesn't have per-group scoping either, it just respects each user's existing file permissions.