Exercise - Create admin users

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In this exercise, you take on 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 Setup the Basics page, fill in the following information.

    • First name – Reed

    • Last name – Smith

    • Username – reeds

  4. Uncheck the Automatically create a password and Require this user to change their password when they first sign in boxes and create an appropriate password. Select Next.

    Screenshot of adding billing administrator.

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

    Screenshot of assigning license.

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

    Screenshot of assigning roles.

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

    Screenshot of finishing adding user.

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

    Screenshot of Admin user added.

Similarly, repeat the steps to add a user Hannah Travis with the role of Billing Administrator.

Congratulations! You added the necessary users to perform further exercises.