

On the New user page, enter information for the admin: You can also invite a new guest user to manage your tenant. This account can be considered a break-glass account or emergency access account. It's preferable to have at least one admin account native to your customer tenant assigned the Global Administrator role. The admin is created and added to your customer tenant. You'll need to give this password to the admin to sign in for the first time. Job info: You can add more information about the user here, or do it later.Ĭopy the autogenerated password provided in the Password box.Settings: Use the yes or no toggle to set Block sign in, and the select the admin's primary location in the Usage location list.You can assign the user to be a Global administrator or one or more of the limited administrator roles in Azure AD.


Roles: To add administrative permissions for the user, add them to an Azure AD role.You can also add the user to groups at a later time. You can add the user to one or more existing groups. Under Azure Active Directory, select Users > All users. On the Portal settings | Directories + subscriptions page, find your customer tenant in the Directory name list, and then select Switch. Select the Directories + subscriptions icon in the toolbar. Make sure you're using your customer tenant. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center with Global Administrator or Privileged Role Administrator permissions. To create a new admin account, follow these steps: Understand user roles to control resource access.Understand user accounts in Azure AD for customers.If you haven't already created your own Azure AD customer tenant, create one now.With an administrator role, work and guest accounts can manage the tenant. In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for customers, a customer tenant represents your directory of consumer and guest accounts.
