Exercise - Create admin users

In this exercise, you assume the role of Oscar, the global administrator, to add users who act as the user administrator, Teams Administrator, and billing administrator. These roles are essential for the upcoming tasks of creating users and assigning licenses.

1. Sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center as Oscar Ward.

2. Select Active users > Add a user.

3. On the Set up the basics page, fill in the following information:

   • First name – Reed

   • Last name – Smith

   • Username – reeds

4. Clear the Automatically create a password and Require this user to change their password when they first sign in checkboxes, and then create an appropriate password. Select Next.

   

5. On the Assign product licenses pane, select the Microsoft 365 E3 (no Teams) license and then select Next.

   

6. On the Optional settings page, under Roles > Admin center access, select the Teams Administrator and User Administrator roles and then select Next.

   

7. On the Review and finish page, select Finish adding.

   

8. Review the added user details and then select Close.

   

Repeat the steps to add user Hannah Travis with the role of billing administrator.

Congratulations, you finished adding the necessary users so that you can perform further exercises.