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Welcome to the Microsoft 365 admin center,

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the primary portal for managing everything that is Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft 365 is a true SaaS offering, Software as a Service,

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where there are many pieces of softwares that are actually

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bundled in

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with Microsoft 365. We will look at some of the

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general settings that apply to all the various software solutions,

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as well as the individual administrative centers.

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But let's start with the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Here in the primary window, we see various cards.

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So Microsoft calls these cards.

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They can be customized and they provide a set of information.

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I've actually modified some of my cards.

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And you can add more cards here so that you can have different

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information represented as part of your dashboard,

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this primary window that you have here in front of you.

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You can name it, you can have multiple versions of

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these and you can configure these to your need.

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On the left-hand side, you have a series of menus that

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are used to manage global solutions and global settings.

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For example, users;

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this is where we can manage all of our users on all of our groups and

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all of the permissions that we assign to them.

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Keep in mind that even though Microsoft 365 is a complete

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solution, behind the scenes, underneath the covers,

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we see other Microsoft solutions that are providing some

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of these services.

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And when it comes to users and identities,

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it is Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft Entra ID is the new iteration of Azure

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Active Directory or Azure AD, which is what provides the

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identity services for Microsoft 365.

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So even though I can click on active users and I see the list

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of users in my environment, these users actually are

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Microsoft Entra ID accounts, their identities,

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security principles that reside within Entra ID.

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However, I can manage them here on Microsoft 365 because my Microsoft

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Entra ID tenant is bundled with Microsoft 365. They are

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one of the same.

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Anything you do here for these users will also apply

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if you open up the Microsoft Entra ID admin center.

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Those two tools will work in conjunction in managing

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your users.

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Frankly, everything you need to do for Entra ID accounts, your user

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accounts here can be done from Microsoft 365.

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There are some advanced functionalities that we

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would do in Entra ID, such as implementing conditional

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access policies, essentially specifying when users

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can connect and what conditions they need to have in

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order to connect,

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as well as multi-factor authentication will be

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done somewhere else.

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Right now, it's in a legacy portal,

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but in the future, it will also move to Entra ID.

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So everything related to users is done from here,

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and we will look at all of these settings in details later

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on in this course.

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Then I also have my teams and groups.

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All of your teams and groups are listed here.

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The teams and groups are used to not only provide distribution

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list,

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email list for different users, or even create and provide access

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to a group of users to access specific resources or for that

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group of users to perform administrative tasks,

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but this is also where I create my Microsoft Teams.

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There is a specialized Teams Admin Center that we will look at

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later on in this course, but in here I see all of the teams

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and Microsoft 365 groups that have been created in my environment.

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I can perform some additional tasks here,

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such as specifying policies for these teams and groups,

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as well as deleting them, managing them,

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and even creating various exchange online solutions such as shared

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mailboxes and mailbox that can be accessed by multiple users.

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Again, we will look at all of these settings in detail later

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on in this course.

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We also have here roles.

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The roles and the role assignments can be managed from Microsoft 365

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admin center. A role is a set of permissions that have been grouped

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together into a meaningful name.

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In this case, we call them a role.

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So for example, we have a built-in role called

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an application administrator.

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And that application administrator is actually a suite of various

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permissions that are grouped together that all relate to

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managing applications within your environment.

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then it's been given a name of Application Administrator.

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You can take this role and you can apply it to a user.

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You'll notice that our roles are categorized in three buckets:

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Azure AD roles, exchange roles, and billing roles.

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Billing roles are more specific to managing the subscription and all

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of the billing that's associated to that.

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So this is my role assignment pane,

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which allows me to assign all of the permissions to my various

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administrators.

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Then I've got a billing set of options here.

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The billing set of options is where you would manage all of your

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licenses and your subscription.

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This is where you would purchase additional licenses and

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subscription for the various needs that you have in your

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organization.

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For example, you want to provide a new service for your users,

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such as an access to Exchange Online,

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or you want to provide some additional encryption functionalities

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for documentations, or you want to ensure that your

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users can have access to the Office applications offline.

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All of these functionalities can be purchased by Microsoft through

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the various product and license offering.

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Later on in this course, we will look at all the various

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relevant billing options that are available here, as well

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we can also configure our payment methods,

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which type of subscription we have,

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look at previous bills and payments that we've done,

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as well as configure notifications for billing requirements.