Mastering Office 365 Administration

Creating and managing custom views

Custom views of users can be a handy way to make searching for a user who fits certain criteria a bit easier. (PowerShell also serves as a handy tool in this way.) There are lots of reasons you may want to do this. Feel free to use your imagination!

For example, let's create a view that shows us only users who have been synced from the local AD. To create a view, click the Views drop-down and scroll to the bottom, then click Add custom view:

Custom user views drop-down

This will bring up the Custom view dialog. We'll need to specify a few options on this screen:

• Name your view: Synced with AD
• Other conditions ...