1 00:00:00,05 --> 00:00:04,03 - [Narrator] When it comes to managing Microsoft 365, 2 00:00:04,03 --> 00:00:07,01 there are a number of different places 3 00:00:07,01 --> 00:00:10,00 where certain things can be managed. 4 00:00:10,00 --> 00:00:11,09 But I do want to tell you 5 00:00:11,09 --> 00:00:16,03 that the majority of Microsoft 365 management 6 00:00:16,03 --> 00:00:22,01 will be done from the Microsoft 365 admin center. 7 00:00:22,01 --> 00:00:25,04 And even the stuff that's done elsewhere, 8 00:00:25,04 --> 00:00:28,08 you can use the admin center as a starting point. 9 00:00:28,08 --> 00:00:29,06 Okay? 10 00:00:29,06 --> 00:00:30,04 So the most important thing I want you to know 11 00:00:30,04 --> 00:00:33,07 is really about the Microsoft 365 admin center. 12 00:00:33,07 --> 00:00:34,08 And the first thing you need to know 13 00:00:34,08 --> 00:00:36,03 is well, how do you get there? 14 00:00:36,03 --> 00:00:37,05 This is one of the few videos 15 00:00:37,05 --> 00:00:40,07 where I'm just sitting on a generic browser, 16 00:00:40,07 --> 00:00:42,02 because I want to show you 17 00:00:42,02 --> 00:00:47,05 that if you just put in admin.microsoft.com 18 00:00:47,05 --> 00:00:53,00 that will take you to the Microsoft 365 admin center. 19 00:00:53,00 --> 00:00:54,06 So the first thing is right from the get go 20 00:00:54,06 --> 00:00:58,08 we're right on our little home tab or our home screen, 21 00:00:58,08 --> 00:01:02,08 where there will be recommended suggestions right at the top 22 00:01:02,08 --> 00:01:05,02 from Microsoft, right here they're saying 23 00:01:05,02 --> 00:01:08,04 reset your admin password without calling support. 24 00:01:08,04 --> 00:01:10,05 Okay. So we can go ahead and we could register that. 25 00:01:10,05 --> 00:01:12,00 That's just a suggestion it's making, 26 00:01:12,00 --> 00:01:13,08 this is a brand new installation. 27 00:01:13,08 --> 00:01:16,01 As you go through and do different things, 28 00:01:16,01 --> 00:01:18,05 this recommendation might change. 29 00:01:18,05 --> 00:01:21,03 Below that we have what's called cards. 30 00:01:21,03 --> 00:01:23,01 Now they have some default cards. 31 00:01:23,01 --> 00:01:24,09 It may be different on yours than mine 32 00:01:24,09 --> 00:01:26,07 depending on when you're watching this. 33 00:01:26,07 --> 00:01:31,00 Right now teams, user management, office apps, 34 00:01:31,00 --> 00:01:32,04 billing and training and guides 35 00:01:32,04 --> 00:01:34,05 are the cards that they recommend. 36 00:01:34,05 --> 00:01:36,09 You can add your own cards 37 00:01:36,09 --> 00:01:39,04 for the things that you do most often 38 00:01:39,04 --> 00:01:43,08 to make this dashboard very easy for you to use. 39 00:01:43,08 --> 00:01:47,01 Now beyond that, over on the left, 40 00:01:47,01 --> 00:01:48,09 we have our different blades here. 41 00:01:48,09 --> 00:01:52,03 We have users, teams and groups, and set up. 42 00:01:52,03 --> 00:01:55,00 Now these at least on my machine 43 00:01:55,00 --> 00:01:58,06 are what's called pinned by default. 44 00:01:58,06 --> 00:01:59,05 Okay? 45 00:01:59,05 --> 00:02:01,07 But if I click on show all, 46 00:02:01,07 --> 00:02:04,05 you'll see that there's a lot more options available. 47 00:02:04,05 --> 00:02:06,03 We'll even scroll down a little bit. 48 00:02:06,03 --> 00:02:09,07 And if you want anything else to be pinned, okay. 49 00:02:09,07 --> 00:02:12,03 So let's say we wanted roles. 50 00:02:12,03 --> 00:02:13,07 We'll just take that to the next one. 51 00:02:13,07 --> 00:02:15,01 You'll see here, there's a pin 52 00:02:15,01 --> 00:02:17,08 and I can click to have that pinned 53 00:02:17,08 --> 00:02:21,02 and let's jump to billing and we'll pin that as well. 54 00:02:21,02 --> 00:02:23,09 You'll notice that when I go down here to the bottom, 55 00:02:23,09 --> 00:02:26,07 instead of show all it now says show pinned. 56 00:02:26,07 --> 00:02:30,00 That's another way to kind of customize this admin center 57 00:02:30,00 --> 00:02:32,05 to the things that are most important to you. 58 00:02:32,05 --> 00:02:34,03 Okay, we still have users, teams and groups 59 00:02:34,03 --> 00:02:35,08 and set up like we had before, 60 00:02:35,08 --> 00:02:38,01 but now we have roles and billing. 61 00:02:38,01 --> 00:02:39,08 So let me go back and show all 62 00:02:39,08 --> 00:02:41,03 and see what else we have here. 63 00:02:41,03 --> 00:02:43,02 Now you'll notice with many of these, 64 00:02:43,02 --> 00:02:44,08 there's a little drop down. 65 00:02:44,08 --> 00:02:47,01 So that means that there will be other options, 66 00:02:47,01 --> 00:02:50,09 if you see the little dropdown, okay. 67 00:02:50,09 --> 00:02:52,05 If you don't see a dropdown, 68 00:02:52,05 --> 00:02:54,04 then all you can do is just click on it 69 00:02:54,04 --> 00:02:56,08 and you'll then have options 70 00:02:56,08 --> 00:02:59,07 within that particular item, okay. 71 00:02:59,07 --> 00:03:02,02 So there's options here that we can do within setup. 72 00:03:02,02 --> 00:03:04,01 For instance. 73 00:03:04,01 --> 00:03:05,09 This top section gives you 74 00:03:05,09 --> 00:03:09,09 some direct Microsoft 365 management. 75 00:03:09,09 --> 00:03:12,07 Then we have a dividing line here and below that 76 00:03:12,07 --> 00:03:15,01 are all of the admin centers. 77 00:03:15,01 --> 00:03:16,02 And you'll see here. 78 00:03:16,02 --> 00:03:19,00 And again, yours may look different than mine. 79 00:03:19,00 --> 00:03:23,04 Okay, there's security, compliance, endpoint manager, 80 00:03:23,04 --> 00:03:27,05 Azure active directory, exchange, SharePoint and teams. 81 00:03:27,05 --> 00:03:29,06 But if there's an admin center that you're thinking, 82 00:03:29,06 --> 00:03:30,04 wow, you know what, 83 00:03:30,04 --> 00:03:32,03 there's something else that I want to manage 84 00:03:32,03 --> 00:03:34,00 and I don't see it here. 85 00:03:34,00 --> 00:03:37,06 Well, then you click on all admin centers. 86 00:03:37,06 --> 00:03:41,03 And now we get all the various admin centers 87 00:03:41,03 --> 00:03:44,06 for all the different apps and services 88 00:03:44,06 --> 00:03:50,04 that we could potentially manage in Microsoft 365. 89 00:03:50,04 --> 00:03:51,03 And I want to show you that 90 00:03:51,03 --> 00:03:53,00 whether you click on something here 91 00:03:53,00 --> 00:03:54,04 or whether you click on it over here, 92 00:03:54,04 --> 00:03:55,08 it doesn't really matter. 93 00:03:55,08 --> 00:03:56,08 I want to show you what happens. 94 00:03:56,08 --> 00:03:59,08 So I'm going to click on endpoint manager, for instance. 95 00:03:59,08 --> 00:04:03,02 It actually does not take me out of 96 00:04:03,02 --> 00:04:06,09 the Microsoft 365 admin center, I'm still right where I was. 97 00:04:06,09 --> 00:04:10,04 It opens a new tab and it is asking me to sign in, 98 00:04:10,04 --> 00:04:13,00 but I'll go ahead and click the account to sign in. 99 00:04:13,00 --> 00:04:15,08 Now I have my Microsoft endpoint manager. 100 00:04:15,08 --> 00:04:20,00 And if I go back here to Microsoft 365 admin center, 101 00:04:20,00 --> 00:04:24,04 and let's say I selected SharePoint. 102 00:04:24,04 --> 00:04:26,07 Okay, it's going to open a new tab 103 00:04:26,07 --> 00:04:30,00 and it's going to take me into the SharePoint admin center. 104 00:04:30,00 --> 00:04:32,03 But I still have all the different tabs open. Right? 105 00:04:32,03 --> 00:04:33,08 I still have the endpoint manager 106 00:04:33,08 --> 00:04:38,03 and I still have the Microsoft 365 admin center. 107 00:04:38,03 --> 00:04:41,04 All right, so additionally, beyond that 108 00:04:41,04 --> 00:04:44,04 in the top left, there's an app launcher. 109 00:04:44,04 --> 00:04:46,07 So it's from here that I can actually 110 00:04:46,07 --> 00:04:49,05 launch the various apps 111 00:04:49,05 --> 00:04:53,05 or even going to the office 365 portal 112 00:04:53,05 --> 00:04:56,04 to go ahead and manage apps that way. 113 00:04:56,04 --> 00:04:58,01 This is kind of the point that I was getting at 114 00:04:58,01 --> 00:05:03,06 to where this really is an all encompassing admin center 115 00:05:03,06 --> 00:05:05,07 for Microsoft 365. 116 00:05:05,07 --> 00:05:07,07 We may need to manage certain aspects 117 00:05:07,07 --> 00:05:11,06 from some other admin center or some other portal, 118 00:05:11,06 --> 00:05:13,01 but generally for the most part, 119 00:05:13,01 --> 00:05:17,00 we can get to it from this location.