Azure – Preparing exam SC – 300 – Identity and Access Administrator – Create, configure, and manage users – Part 6

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In this article we will discuss managing users from Azure AD portal.

Take away from this article:

• What is Azure user account
• All users view in Azure Active Directory admin center
• Types of users in Azure AD
• How to create new user in Azure Active Directory
• How to assign License to the user
• How to Delete the user
• How to Restore or remove a recently deleted user with Azure Active Directory

Azure User Account :

• Every user who wants to access user resources need Azure User account
• Azure user account contains all the details which is required to authenticate when user sign in
• After successfully sign in / authentication, Azure AD builds access token to authorize the user which determines what resources are accessible to the user

All users view in Azure Active Directory admin center :

• To view all the Azure AD users, navigate to Azure Active Directory admin center (https://aad.portal.azure.com/ ) or from M365 Admin center as

• From the left side pane, click on “Users” to view all Azure AD users as

• We will be redirected to UsersManagementMenuBlade – https://aad.portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/UsersManagementMenuBlade/MsGraphUsers
• If we notice the “User type” in above fig, there are two types – Member and Guest
• Actually we have tree types of users
  • Members / Cloud Identities
    • Azure AD users
  • Guest users
    • Users from other tenant or Microsoft account such as Live / Outlook / XBOX
    • These users need to be invited
  • Directory synchronized identities
    • These users exists in on-premises AD
    • Using Azure AD Connect, synchronization happen between Azure AD and on-premises AD

Creating new user in Azure Active Directory :

• On UsersManagementMenuBlade we have option available to add / create new user – ” + New user” as shown in above fig
• When we click on “+ New user” link we will be redirected to “New user” dashboard as

• As in above fig, please fill the required details – User name, Name.
• Once we have required fields filled “Create” button will be enabled as

• On successful creation of user, we could see new user in user listings as shown in below fig

Assigning License to the user :

• To assign license to the single user or newly created user from Azure AD admin center, we navigate to individual user profile page
• Lets navigate to newly created user profile page here – last user in above fig – “Prasham Sabadra” as

• As in above fig, in left pane we have link “Licenses“
• When we click on “Licenses” link, we will be redirected to – https://aad.portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/UserDetailsMenuBlade/Licenses/userId/4262cf43-3e39-4867-81a3-fc87ee0f572c – Licenses page where we could assign the license to the user as

• click on “+ Assignments” link from the top menu as shown in above fig
• We will get an option to “Select license” as shown in below fig

• On “Save” button click – respective license will be assigned to user

Deleting the user :

• We could delete individual user from the “All users” page as

Restore or remove a recently deleted user with Azure Active Directory :

• Once we delete user, user account remains in suspended state for 30 days
• Within 30 days we can restore the user with all properties
• To restore or remove a recently deleted user, from left pane click on “Deleted users” as shown in below fig

• We will be redirected to deleted users page as

• From above fig, from deleted users page we have option “Deleted permanently” , “Restore user” options are available
• Permissions required for Restoring and Deleting permanently users:
  • Global administrator
  • Partner Tier1 Support
  • Partner Tier2 Support
  • User administrator

Next article : In next article we will discuss – Create, configure, and manage Groups

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