Signing In to the Documentation

The InfraScout product documentation is behind a Microsoft sign-in. This page, the blog, and everything on www.infrascout.cloud stay open to everyone — only the documentation itself asks who you are.

We gate it for two reasons. The documentation describes how to assess and remediate a customer's infrastructure, so we would rather it reached the people operating InfraScout than a scraper building a training corpus. And knowing which organizations read it tells us which parts to invest in.

Which accounts work

Any Microsoft Entra ID work or school account, from any organization. There is no allowlist, no invitation, and no InfraScout license check — if you can sign in to Microsoft 365 at work, you can read the documentation. You do not need to be a customer.

Personal Microsoft accounts — outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com and the like — cannot be used. If your organization does not use Microsoft Entra ID, write to info@infrascout.cloud and we will find another way to get you the documentation.

What happens when you sign in

Selecting Sign in, or any documentation link while signed out, sends you to Microsoft's own sign-in page. You authenticate there exactly as you do for any other work application, including whatever multi-factor and Conditional Access policies your organization applies. Microsoft then returns you to the page you were heading for.

The first time, you may see a consent prompt asking whether InfraScout may sign you in and read your basic profile. Approving it once is enough; you will not be asked again on later visits.

Signing in grants InfraScout no access to your tenant

The consent covers sign-in and your basic profile only — your name, email address, and the identifiers below. It reads no mail, no files, no directory data, and it gives us no standing access to anything in your tenant. Connecting InfraScout to a tenant for assessments is a separate, deliberate step performed by an administrator, described under Onboarding Your Tenant once you are signed in.

If your organization requires administrator approval

Many tenants require an administrator to approve an application before anyone else may consent to it. If yours does, Microsoft tells you approval is needed instead of signing you in, and usually offers to send the request for you.

Your Entra ID administrator approves it once, for the whole organization, after which everyone signs in normally. Point them at this page — the permission being requested is sign-in and basic profile, nothing more.

What we record

Each time you sign in, we record your email address, your Entra ID user object identifier, your organization's tenant identifier, and the date and time. We keep those records for 90 days.

We do not record which pages you read, we do not use any of it for advertising or profiling, and we do not pass it to anyone outside our hosting provider. The full disclosure, including the legal basis, is § 3.5 of our Privacy Policy.

If you cannot get in

Sign-in failures are almost always a tenant policy rather than a broken account — pending administrator approval is the usual cause, followed by a Conditional Access rule that blocks applications outside your organization.

Write to info@infrascout.cloud with the error Microsoft showed you and we will work out which it is.