Mastering Office 365 Administration

Getting to the SharePoint admin center

In order to get the SharePoint admin center, you must be one of the following:

• Office 365 global administrator
• SharePoint administrator (not to be confused with a SharePoint site collection administrator)
• Microsoft Partner with delegated administrator rights

The first person that sets or sets up the Office 365 tenant for your organization is set as the global admin. This global admin can create other admins such as SharePoint admins or even other global admins.

Admins are created in the Users section of the Office 365 admin center. People can also be assigned as an admin later. See Chapter 2, Using PowerShell to Connect to Office 365 Services for instructions.

Once you are in the Office 365 admin center, ...