- [Narrator] When it comes to managing Microsoft 365,
there are a number of different places
where certain things can be managed.
But I do want to tell you
that the majority of Microsoft 365 management
will be done from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
And even the stuff that's done elsewhere,
you can use the admin center as a starting point.
Okay?
So the most important thing I want you to know
is really about the Microsoft 365 admin center.
And the first thing you need to know
is well, how do you get there?
This is one of the few videos
where I'm just sitting on a generic browser,
because I want to show you
that if you just put in admin.microsoft.com
that will take you to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
So the first thing is right from the get go
we're right on our little home tab or our home screen,
where there will be recommended suggestions right at the top
from Microsoft, right here they're saying
reset your admin password without calling support.
Okay. So we can go ahead and we could register that.
That's just a suggestion it's making,
this is a brand new installation.
As you go through and do different things,
this recommendation might change.
Below that we have what's called cards.
Now they have some default cards.
It may be different on yours than mine
depending on when you're watching this.
Right now teams, user management, office apps,
billing and training and guides
are the cards that they recommend.
You can add your own cards
for the things that you do most often
to make this dashboard very easy for you to use.
Now beyond that, over on the left,
we have our different blades here.
We have users, teams and groups, and set up.
Now these at least on my machine
are what's called pinned by default.
Okay?
But if I click on show all,
you'll see that there's a lot more options available.
We'll even scroll down a little bit.
And if you want anything else to be pinned, okay.
So let's say we wanted roles.
We'll just take that to the next one.
You'll see here, there's a pin
and I can click to have that pinned
and let's jump to billing and we'll pin that as well.
You'll notice that when I go down here to the bottom,
instead of show all it now says show pinned.
That's another way to kind of customize this admin center
to the things that are most important to you.
Okay, we still have users, teams and groups
and set up like we had before,
but now we have roles and billing.
So let me go back and show all
and see what else we have here.
Now you'll notice with many of these,
there's a little drop down.
So that means that there will be other options,
if you see the little dropdown, okay.
If you don't see a dropdown,
then all you can do is just click on it
and you'll then have options
within that particular item, okay.
So there's options here that we can do within setup.
For instance.
This top section gives you
some direct Microsoft 365 management.
Then we have a dividing line here and below that
are all of the admin centers.
And you'll see here.
And again, yours may look different than mine.
Okay, there's security, compliance, endpoint manager,
Azure active directory, exchange, SharePoint and teams.
But if there's an admin center that you're thinking,
wow, you know what,
there's something else that I want to manage
and I don't see it here.
Well, then you click on all admin centers.
And now we get all the various admin centers
for all the different apps and services
that we could potentially manage in Microsoft 365.
And I want to show you that
whether you click on something here
or whether you click on it over here,
it doesn't really matter.
I want to show you what happens.
So I'm going to click on endpoint manager, for instance.
It actually does not take me out of
the Microsoft 365 admin center, I'm still right where I was.
It opens a new tab and it is asking me to sign in,
but I'll go ahead and click the account to sign in.
Now I have my Microsoft endpoint manager.
And if I go back here to Microsoft 365 admin center,
and let's say I selected SharePoint.
Okay, it's going to open a new tab
and it's going to take me into the SharePoint admin center.
But I still have all the different tabs open. Right?
I still have the endpoint manager
and I still have the Microsoft 365 admin center.
All right, so additionally, beyond that
in the top left, there's an app launcher.
So it's from here that I can actually
launch the various apps
or even going to the office 365 portal
to go ahead and manage apps that way.
This is kind of the point that I was getting at
to where this really is an all encompassing admin center
for Microsoft 365.
We may need to manage certain aspects
from some other admin center or some other portal,
but generally for the most part,
we can get to it from this location.