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
- Members / Cloud Identities
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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