Add Users One by One in the Active Users Page

Summary: Users can easily be added one by one after the domain setup is complete.

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Instructions

Doing this avoids log in issues that follow the generation of their new email address being triggered by adding the custom domain.

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To add users, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Online Portal External Link.

  2. Select User > Add a user.

    Active Users 1

  3. Fill in the information for the user.

    Active Users 2

  4. Choose Add when done.

    After the user is added, you are presented with their new user information. This includes their display name, username, and password.

    You can choose to:     

    • Email the details to yourself

    • Email the details to an alternative log in for that user, as the newly created one has not yet been provisioned

    • Print out the confirmation page

Information Icon Profile Fields

 

Field

Content

Name

Fill in the first, last, display name (The display name is auto-populated after the input of the first and last name, but it remains editable), and the username (The username must be unique across your entire organization).

Domain

For example, if the user's username is Jakob, and his domain is contoso.com, he signs in to Office 365 by typing jakob@contoso.com.

Contact Information

Optional information:

Expand to fill in a mobile phone number, address, and so on.

Password

Use the auto-generated password or expand it to specify a strong password for the user. They must change their password after 90 days. Alternatively, you can choose to make the user change the password when they first sign in.

Roles

The following are the various user options:

  • User – no administration access
  • Global administrator – the user has access to all the features and performs all the tasks in the Microsoft Office Portal
  • Custom administrator – you can assign this user one or many roles so they can manage specific areas of Office 365 including Billing, Exchange, Skype for Business, Password, Service, SharePoint, and User Administrator.

License

Expand this section and select the appropriate license. If you do not have any licenses available, you can still add a user and buy additional licenses.

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Microsoft 365 from Dell
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Article Number: 000184378
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2024
Version:  9
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