Data Sources

SCA is an app for iOS and Android that retrieves all contact information exclusively from your organization’s Azure tenant. When SCA launches for the first time, or when the user performs the pull-to-update gesture, a resync process is triggered. During this process, SCA queries all configured data sources that the user is authorized to access.

The primary data sources are Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory / AAD) and the Global Address List / OrgContacts (GAL).

SCA can also retrieve contact information from a user’s personal Outlook Contacts (APC), which requires Exchange Online.

Optional data sources can be enabled through additional configuration in your Azure tenant. These include Dynamics 365 (D365), Microsoft Dataverse (DVRS), Azure Blob Storage (ABS), and Shared Mailbox Contacts (SMC).