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- [David] Let's go ahead and create a new user
in our organization.
So to create a new user, I just have to go under Add a User.
And I'm now in the New user interface.
Now, remember that we're using
the Microsoft 365 Admin Center,
but what I'm going to be doing now is actually creating
a user account in Azure Active Directory.
So this is a security principle or a user that will be able
to authenticate to my subscription, my tenant.
So I'm going to call this user Zachary,
let me make sure I give him a Last name.
And I'm going to give him a Username.
I don't have any rules for Username,
so I'm just going to give him his first name as his alias.
And then the domain name is going to be used to populate
his overall username for sign in information.
I can also specify now the Location.
So the Location is relevant for licensing.
Then I can click under Contact information.
None of the information here is required,
these are all information that I can add
for search purposes, or cataloging,
or reporting, or HR purposes.
If later on, you want to find all users that are located
in the city of Montreal,
then you can just populate the city of Montreal
for all you user accounts and then search for them.
If it's important for you to find all users
that are in the marketing department separately,
you can also put that as a Department value.
These are all stored as attributes,
and these attributes are populated in Azure Active Directory
for all of the user accounts,
and they can be used again for search fields.
Then I can specify here a Password.
Now the Password can either be auto-generated
or I can create the password manually.
So I'm going to go ahead and create the password manually
for this user account.
And I have the option to make the user change his password
at first sign in which I'm not going to do.
If I do that, as soon as they sign in,
they will be required to put in a new password.
It's usually a best practice
if you're creating a password for someone else,
for them to go ahead and change that password after.
Then under the Roles here,
I can specify the administrative roles.
Now, you have two primary options here, a user,
which means this individual does not
have any administrative access
or you have Global administrator.
And a Global administrator means that they have full access
over the Office 365 environment.
They can purchase services, they can purchase licenses,
they can add domain names,
they can remove other user accounts,
they can do essentially anything they want.
And then we have the customized administrators.
Customized administrators are essentially custom roles
that have been created in Office 365,
that have a subset of rights that are very specific.
For example, you have a right,
which is the Exchange administrator.
And this basically means that the user has
the ability to manage, implement,
modify all the exchange related settings in my tenant.
You have also a role called Billing administrator,
which is someone that has only
the right to purchase licenses.
They can't manage the objects,
but they can purchase licenses for your organization.
You have also a Message Center reader.
Somebody that can read all the notifications
or the service health issues that come from Microsoft
about your tenant and your subscription.
So you see that these are very, very specific
and you can assign multiple of these custom roles,
or you can assign none of them.
Now, I will choose to make him a simple user
with no administrative access.
Then I have the ability to assign licenses.
Now you'll notice that by default there are no licenses
and you have an option at the bottom,
which is to create a user without any product licenses.
And I don't want to do that because I want this user
to have access to resources in Office 365.
The most common license is again,
an Office 365 license that provide access to email services
and OneDrive, and so on.
So I'm actually going to give that license to the user.
You notice that I have one license available
because I've purchased one license.
So I'm going to click on the toggle here
to assign the license.
And then I can turn on or off various workloads
inside of the license.
And that's the license I'm adding.
I'm going to click on Add,
and the license is being added to the user.
I can click Close.
And this user now has been created,
has been provided a license,
and that license has been provided also various services.
So let's go ahead and try to sign in with that user.
So I'm going to Sign out from my user account.
And I'm going to try to sign in again,
even though it's usually better
to close all the browser windows,
sometimes they'll let me sign in without closing
my browser windows.
So I'm going to try again on office.com.
And I'm going to click on Sign in
and I'm going to switch to a different account.
It's remembering me,
but I want to switch to a different account
and that's going to be the account I just created.
And it's prompting me for that password again.
And I'm signed in under Zachary's account.
Now, being signed in under Zachary's account here,
I can verify that I'm signed in for Zachary's account.
I signed a license for Zachary,
and now he has access to all these various applications.
And he can click for example, on Outlook or OneDrive.
And he can go ahead and create email messages, send email,
receive emails just by signing in here to his account.
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