Office 365 : Add new user

In this article, we will see how to create a new user in Office 365.

Step 1- Go to Office 365 Admin center. Open Active Users page as shown below.

Step 2- Provide the mandatory fields like Display name, Username and other optional details as per your requirement.

Step 3- For password, default option is Auto generated password but you can also provide password as shown below. You can also specify whether user needs to change password on first login on not.

Step 4- You can also specify Roles as shown in below image. Default is User (no admin access).

Step 5- Apart from Global administrator you can provide customized admin roles to user as shown in below image.

Step 6- You can also specify what kind of license you need to provide to user. Click on Add button to create user.

Step 7- Once user is created, you can send password in email as shown below.

Step 8- Now your new user is visible in active users list.