Microsoft 365 admin interface

Microsoft 365 is a very powerful platform, but with great power comes great responsibility. The Microsoft 365 admin center lets you manage various aspects of the platform. Only designated administrators in your organization can access the admin center. They can access it through the admin app after they log in to www.office.com.

The following screenshot shows the landing screen of the Microsoft 365 admin center:

Figure 1.11: Microsoft 365 admin center

You can perform the following actions from the Microsoft 365 admin center:

• Add or remove users in your organization’s Microsoft 365 environment
• Manage app licenses for these users
• Manage organization-wide admin role assignments
• Create and manage Azure Active Directory groups and mailboxes
• Manage app licenses and billing information
• Log a support ticket with Microsoft Support
• Register your company domain with Microsoft 365
• View usage and compliance reports and perform audits
• Monitor Microsoft 365 health and performance
• Administer and govern individual Microsoft 365 apps using the corresponding admin center

Since this book is focused on using the different workloads of Microsoft 365, discussing admin capabilities is beyond the scope of this book. However, although the book doesn’t cover portal administration recipes, it is good to know about the various roles available in Microsoft 365. We will cover this next.