How To Add New User In Office 365

This blog shows how to add new user in your organization to access sites on Office 365 also, where different types of users can access Office 365 in different way. Here is the list (please ref on Microsoft site).

Different Type of users like

Licensed users, Sign-in allowed, Sign-in blocked, unlicensed users, users with errors, billing admins, Global admins, Password admins etc.

• Go to Office 365 site to sign in.

• Select Admin to go to Office 365 Admin Centre. On the same page, click on Add a user tab.
  
  
• Click on new user or add the user. New user form will pop up.
• Fill First name, Last name.
• In display name box, first name and last name will automatically appear.
• Enter the user name, which will be user login Id for Office 365 site.
• Contact information: You can enter your job title, department, phones etc.

Password

• By default, auto generated password is marked, which you will be using for which you are required to first sign in.
• Subsequently, auto generated password comes.

• If you want to create the password, you can choose second option.

Roles 

• You can assign different roles to the people. By default user, there is no administrator access, which means the user cannot have Office 365 Admin Centre or any other admin panel.
• There are so many admin roles, which controls or access the site permissions. SharePoint Administrator can access and control on SharePoint online as well as site collection administration.
• Global administrator will have an access to all the features in the Admin Centre.
• Customized administrator- Here, you can assign this user one or more roles, so they can manage the areas of Office 365.
 

Product Licences

• Here, you can assign a product license.
• Newly added user can access this product as it depends on the user roles.
• You can create a user without assigning any product license.
• They may have limited or no accesses to Office 365, until you assign a product license.

• Click OK.

• The user is added successfully, which shows the display name, user name and password. Click send E-mail, so that the newly created user will get the password on the provided mail Id.


In this way, you can add new user on Office 365. In the next part, we will see how to manage the users and the permissions.

Happy reading. Thank you. Any suggestion/feedback is welcome.