There are two ways to ‘Add a user’ in Microsoft 365 or Office 365 admin center
i) Normal way to ‘Add a user’
ii) ‘Add a user’ through saved template
Will show you both the ways….Let’s Begin
How to add a new user to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 Admin Center
- 1. Sign in at admin.microsoft.com with your admin account.
2. Once you login to Office 365 admin center, you’ll see admin page. Click on Show All
3. On the left-hand side, navigation pane that consists of:
- Users
- Groups
- Roles
- Resources
- Billing
- Support
- Settings
- Setup
- Reports
- Health
Click on Users > Active Users > Add a user
4. Fill in the basic user information, and then select Next
· Name Fill in the first and last name, display name, and username.
· Domain Choose the domain for the user’s account. For example, if the user’s username is Jakob, and the domain is contoso.com, they’ll sign in by using jakob@contoso.com.
· Password settings Choose to use the autogenerated password or to create your own strong password for the user.
· The user must change their password after 90 days. Or you can choose to Require this user to change their password when they first sign in.
· Choose whether you want to send the password in email when the user is added.
5. In the Assign product licenses pane, select the location and the appropriate license for the user. If you don’t have any licenses available, you can still add a user and buy additional licenses. Click > NEXT
6. In the Optional settings pane, expand Roles (if you want to give any additional rights to this user else leave).
Expand Profile info to add additional information about the user (if any). Then click > NEXT
7. Review your new user’s settings, make any changes you like, then select Finish adding.
8. Copy the required information and then Close.
And you are done (you have successfully added a new user)
At the bottom, you also have the option to save the template (Write the name of the template and you are done), if you want to add multiple users together under same license this is a good feature (will make the process to add users faster)
Once you save the above template, will show you how easy it is to ‘Add a user with saved template’
Add a user (With Template)
- In this case, Click Active Users > select User template, and then select a template from the drop-down list (you will find all saved templates; as an example we have saved Faculty and Student templates as shown below)
2. Choose ‘Faculty or Student’ any template (which ever you want), e.g., in this case let’s choose ‘Faculty’
And ‘Fill out’ the required fields to add a user from this template
Click on Checkbox ‘Send password in email on completion’ (if you want the user information including password on email as well)
Click on ‘Add user’
3. Copy the User details and save it and close the window.
If you want to add more users under same template, click on ‘Add another user using this template’ under Next steps
