From the course: Microsoft Cloud Fundamentals: Administering Office 365 and Intune

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Add Office 365 users

Add Office 365 users

From the course: Microsoft Cloud Fundamentals: Administering Office 365 and Intune

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Add Office 365 users

- [Instructor] One of the common tasks that you'll need to perform within your tenant is to add new users. You can do this either in the admin center using your browser, or by using PowerShell. Everyone who needs to use Office 365 must have their own user account and license. When a user account is created, you'll assign them an Office 365 license and provide them with a mailbox in Exchange. Users can then use their login credentials and sign in and access Office 365 resources. Let's drop onto our demo tenant and show you how to create new users in Office 365 using the admin center. I've logged onto my Microsoft 365 admin center with a user with an administrative role such as the User Administrator. From the left hand side, I'll select Users, and then Active users. And here we can add a user. We'll provide the basic information for the user, include the name and display name, and configure the username. We can…

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