If we look deeper on this option we will see the following options:Īs we can see, there are a bulk of possible options.

The most common option for assigning admin role to user is third option: Customized administrator. A global admin can be a dedicated personal admin user account which we are not using for our daily business.

By personal recommendation to this role is, that, depended on the company size, we don’t have users with this role on his user account. If a user has this role, we will be an admin for all possible roles in Office 365. If we have a look on the second option, we see the global administrator. The first option is the default one, that means that this specific user has no administrative permissions. Now let us click by Roles on edit, and we will get the following overview:Īs we can see by this specific user, he has no admin roles assigned on Office 365. Here we see all information about the user which are synced to the Cloud. When we login to our Office 365 portal, we go to the Admin center > User > Active users > and here we browse for the user we want to modify the admin roles.Īfter marking the user we want to edit, it appears on the right side in our browser the “Setcard” of our user. In the first step we will have a look, where we can configure the admin roles in Office 365: Each admin role maps to common business functions and gives people in our organization permissions to the specific tasks in our Office 365 admin center. Microsoft has created this admin roles in a way, that it makes easy for us, to assign the right roles to the right users.

Office 365 is coming with a bulk of new admin roles, which we can assign to our users in our organization. In the other hand we also need to think/talk about roles for managing our new horizon. By using Office 365 we have a new horizon of opportunities and features we can go with.

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