Account identity, Users and Groups

User accounts

Identity accounts

Documentation: How to create, invite, and delete users

Several ways to add cloud identity user accounts in Microsoft Entra ID

• Portal
• 365 Admin Center
• Admin console
• Azure CLI

Info

The administrator can Create a user within the organization or Invite a guest user to provide access to organization resources

Bulk user accounts

Documentation: Azure - Bulk create users in Microsoft Entra ID

Easy way for bulk create and delete user account is using Azure portal

• Only Global administrators or User administrators have privileges to create and delete user accounts
• Complete bulk operations, Admin fills out a CSV template of data for user accounts
• Bulk template can down from Entra Admin Center
• Bulk list of user accounts can be downloaded

Group Accounts

Documentation: Learn about groups and access rights in Microsoft Entra ID

There are two different types of group accounts

• Security groups are used to manage member and computer access to shared resources for a group of users, create a security group for a specific security policy and apply the same permissions to all members of a group.
• Microsoft 365 groups provide collaboration opportunities. Group members have access to a shared mailbox, calendar, files, SharePoint site, and more.

When adding group members, you need to know what access rights should be applied