How to Create a New Office 365 Admin Account

Hi Everyone this is Prem, I have worked as Microsoft 365 support ambassador. In this blog I will share How to Create a New Office 365 Admin Account.

 

To create an Office 365 Admin account, we can create it from the admin portal or it can also be created from the PowerShell, In this blog we will see how to create it form the Admin portal.

 

Steps to create Admin account in Office365:

Only a Global Admin account can be used to create new Admin account.

 

Once you have the required Global admin account you can visit the admin center by clicking on the link: https://admin.microsoft.com > then click on Users tab > Active users:

 

 

Once on Active users page click on +Add a user:

 

 

Fill the required details requested for the new Admin account as shown below and check the option, Require this user to change their password when they first sign in, if you want the new Admin to change their password immediately after they login with the password you have set here, once done hit Next:

 

 

Next it will ask to choose the usage location for the new Admin account and a license, if you want, you can create a user without a license by clicking on “Create user without product license (not recommended)” and Click Next:

 

 

The License(s) can be assigned after Account creation as well.

 

For the account to have admin access you will have to assign Roles, Expand the Roles section and select Admin center access:

 

 

Now on this step select the access level to grant to the new Admin account, you can move your computer’s mouse on the “i” symbol next to each role to know more about it:

 

 

In my case, I am assigning Exchange administrator role, the new admin account will be able to manage all the exchange admin related activities.

 

You can also expand the “Show all by category” option to assign permission on more granular levels if you want.

 

Once selected, Click on Next.

 

You can review the settings here and click on “Finish adding” to create the account:

In this way we can create a new Admin account in Office 365, now you can start using the email address and the password you have set for the new admin account to login to the respective Admin center.

 

Note: The admin role assigned can be removed or new roles can be added to any user account in Office 365 at any time.

 

Date:08/03/2023

Author: Prem

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