Off the top of my head, and depending on what they’ve subscribed to, customers need to deal with separate portals for: Right now, Microsoft’s cloud services suffer from “portal sprawl”. Maybe I’m reading too much into that, but it seems to me that there will be efforts made to bring more administrative tasks into the Microsoft 365 admin center, reducing the need to break out to separate portals to do your job. The biggest change will be for someone who, for example, subscribed to both Office 365 and Intune. If you’ve already been using the Microsoft 365 admin center, your experience won’t change much. Your new admin center still includes links to all your specialty admin tools for services like OneDrive and SharePoint conveniently linked in the left navigation pane. This is your new front door for managing and monitoring all your Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services. The navigation is the same, and you’ll have the same granularity of control over your environment. If you’ve used the Office 365 admin center before, the experience will feel very similar. It looks identical to the previous portal, which is expected. For Office 365 admins, this means a simpler experience that easily integrates with you other Microsoft services – all without giving up capabilities or control.Īs a targeted release tenant I am already being redirected to the new portal. Users of both Office 365 and Microsoft 365 will now have access to the new Microsoft 365 admin center. Today, we are expanding this integrated and intuitive admin experience to users of Office 365. In March, we announced the Microsoft 365 admin center as your central location for managing and monitoring applications, services, data, devices, and users across your Microsoft 365 deployment. In that same spirit, our goal is to offer a unified toolset to manage and protect those organizations. We built Microsoft 365- a complete IT solution including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security- to enable organizations to create and work together securely. Microsoft has announced that Office 365 customers will soon be using the new Microsoft 365 admin center in place of the existing Office 365 admin center.

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