Accessing the admin centers

Admin centers provide an interface through which you'll configure global settings, restrictions, and allowances for each app and service in Office 365. In this recipe, you'll learn how to find the admin centers for all apps and services used for configuration, management, and reporting of Office 365 apps and services.

Getting ready

You must be a user assigned as a global administrator or have a specific app administrator role to be able to access the corresponding app's admin center.

How to do it…

Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center at http://admin.microsoft.com.

Select Show all from the left navigation menu:

Figure 1.1 – The left navigation pane of the Microsoft 365 admin center

Select the admin center you wish to access from those that appear by default, or select All admin centers to view a complete list. The All admin centers view is seen here:

Figure 1.2 – All admin centers available to a user displayed in the Microsoft 365 admin center

How it works…

By default, admin centers are "hidden" behind a Show all menu node in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Depending on your assigned role(s), you may be unable to access certain admin centers. In this recipe, you've discovered where they're listed and which of them are available to you.

Tip

Check out the last two recipes in this chapter, Customizing navigation of the admin center and Personalizing your admin center home page to make your admin experience simpler and more specific to your role.

Also, as you become more familiar with the various admin centers, you'll notice other Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that will save you a couple of clicks, such as security.microsoft.com, compliance.microsoft.com, TenantName-admin.sharepoint.com, admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com, and so on.

See also

Learn more about specific admin roles and their abilities at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.