When we're in Microsoft 365, we have user accounts that are
enabled for various Microsoft 365 workloads.
All of those user accounts are actually user accounts that also
reside in Microsoft Entra ID.
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory,
one of the first workloads associated with Microsoft 365 that
provides all of the authorization and authentication services
for Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's identity and access
management solution, and it has its own portal,
its own admin center.
So to access the Microsoft Entry ID admin center,
I'm going to go down my list of admin centers and go
into Identity.
When I click on "Identity", I'm entering the Entra admin
center and I'm entering the tenant that's associated with my
Microsoft 365 subscription.
When you first subscribe to Microsoft 365,
you will have an Entra ID tenant that uses the Entra
ID-free license.
It is a free tenant.
There's no additional cost associated to that,
and it is where all of your users and groups will be stored.
Not all your groups, only your Microsoft 365 groups and
your security-enabled groups.
The distribution list, those are still lists that
reside for in Exchange.
So this is where we will see all of our users and groups.
You will see all the member users, all guests, invited users,
and all the various groups that you create in Microsoft 365 you
will see them represented here in Microsoft Entra ID.
So different pieces of information that are relevant when we look at
this specific admin center.
First of all, if I click under users,
all users, I see all of the users in my tenant.
Now all of these names are blurred out for you on your screen.
However, if you are an administrator and you
are accessing this,
you would be able to see all of these usernames and
email addresses.
This is also where we're going to enable multi-factor authentication
or per-user
MFA, per-user multifactor authentication will be
enabled from here, and it is something that will
allow you to force your users to use more than one form
of authentication.
And we'll be doing that in a later video in this course.
This is where we can also reset password for users and do other
tasks that we can also do
from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
It's important to note that whatever change you do for a user
that relates to its password, its contact information,
or any of its Entra settings, if you're making those
changes here,
those changes are actually done on the same object that exists
in Microsoft 365.
The underlying infrastructure is the same.
We're using the same technology, the Microsoft Entra ID tenant,
whether we are using this admin center or we are using the
Microsoft 365 admin center.
So here I see all of my users.
I can check my sign-in logs as well to see when was the last time
that my users have signed in,
and which devices that they've signed in from, in which location,
what was their IP address, what service they accessed,
whether it was successful or a failed access?
All of this information is accessible through
the sign-in logs.
I can also find here my groups, all groups that are accessed
in Microsoft 365,
whether they be Security, Distribution, or Microsoft 365
groups, are accessible here in Microsoft Entra ID.
So Microsoft Entra ID is also where I'm going to be able to
specify my domain name,
even though my domain name is something that already
exists in Microsoft
365, I see them here as well.
You can add the custom domain name as we did in Microsoft 365,
or we can add it here in Microsoft Entra ID.
Both tools allow you to perform the exact same task.
So it's important to note that Microsoft Entra ID has some
duplication with the Microsoft 365 admin center,
and that is by design.
These are two tools that have overlap when it comes to settings
such as naming, users, and groups.
However, some things can only be done in one portal as
opposed to another.
Multifactor authentication is one of those things that relates only
to Entra ID admin center.
Anything else that relates to authentication actually is managed
through the Microsoft Entra admin center.