❗Before you begin ❗
Ensure you meet all of the sign-in requirements before attempting to access the Partner Center Companion Tool; you will be prohibited or severely limited by the Companion Tool if not.
The Partner Center Companion Tool delivers a range of features designed to streamline your Partner Center auditing process and uses your Microsoft Partner Center login to authenticate.
You can sign in to the tool at https://companion.inforcer.com/ .
Sign-in Requirements
The Partner Center Companion authenticates using a Partner Center login: any user MUST be an Admin Agent or Help Desk Agent within their Partner Center
The acting user MUST also have the appropriate DAP or GDAP access, including the 11 key GDAP roles:
Exchange Administrator
Groups Administrator
Teams Administrator
SharePoint Administrator
Intune Administrator
Helpdesk Administrator
Privileged Role Administrator
User Administrator
Application Administrator
Directory Writers
Security Administrator
The user MUST belong to a security group that has access to the customer’s GDAP relations, and is assigned the following roles:
Security Reader
License Administrator
An administrator (Global Admin or App Admin) will need to approve the Companion App enterprise application. This is persistent and only needs to be approved once.
How we use these sign-in requirements
Admin Agent
The Admin Agent role allows users to list all customers (reseller relationships) and view their configured Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) relationships, groups and members.
The Partner Center Companion relies on these details to analyze customers’ readiness for onboarding into inforcer, while allowing users to perform necessary maintenance on their relationships by removing Global Admins and enabling Auto-Renew.
GDAP Relationships
Using a Security Group’s GDAP relationships, the Partner Center Companion can read and present key information on licensing per customer:
The Security Reader role
Enables the tool to read and present Secure Score metrics per customer.
The License Administrator role
Is used to access and read licensing information per-customer. This is a read-only function not currently offered by Microsoft.