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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By : Nate Chamberlain
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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By: Nate Chamberlain

Overview of this book

Organizations across the world have switched to Office 365 to boost workplace productivity. However, to maximize investment in Office 365, you need to know how to efficiently administer Office 365 solutions. Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook is packed with recipes to guide you through common and not-so-common administrative tasks throughout Office 365. Whether you’re administering a single app such as SharePoint or organization-wide Security & Compliance across Office 365, this cookbook offers a variety of recipes that you’ll want to have to hand. The book begins by covering essential setup and administration tasks. You’ll learn how to manage permissions for users and user groups along with automating routine admin tasks using PowerShell. You’ll then progress through to managing core Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Azure Active Directory (AD). This book also features recipes that’ll help you to manage newer services such as Microsoft Search, Power Platform, and Microsoft Teams. In the final chapters, you’ll delve into monitoring, reporting, and securing your Office 365 services. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about managing individual Office 365 services along with monitoring, securing, and optimizing your entire Office 365 deployment efficiently.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Chapter 14: Appendix – Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses

Managing guest users

When guests are added to your tenant directly by an admin or by a user in Teams, SharePoint, or other apps, those guests are stored in the Micosoft 365 admin center and can be viewed and deleted there. In this recipe, we'll cover the steps required to search for and manage guest users.

Getting ready

Guest users must be allowed in your tenant for any to appear in the admin center once invited by Team or group owners.

How to do it…

  1. Go to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center at http://admin.microsoft.com.
  2. Select Users > Guest Users.
  3. Use the search bar to search for specific guest(s).
  4. Use the ellipsis menu on any user's name when viewing and searching the main listing to delete a user:
    Figure 2.14 – Delete a user option on the ellipsis menu for a user

    Figure 2.14 – Delete a user option on the ellipsis menu for a user

  5. You can also select a user's name to view or edit contact information and O365 group memberships. You can use the trash icon under the user's name and email to delete the user:
Figure 2.15 – User detail panel that appears when a user is selected from Active users

Figure 2.15 – User detail panel that appears when a user is selected from Active users

How it works…

In this recipe, you found guest users in your tenant and explored the details for one of them. The Guest Users screen of the Microsoft 365 admin center allows viewing, editing, and deleting of all invited guests.

There's more…

You can only delete one guest user at a time from the Users > Guest Users screen. Go to the Users > Active users screen to delete guest users in bulk. You'll just need to filter the Active users screen to Guest users first, as seen here:

Figure 2.16 – Active user view filter options with Guest users selected

Figure 2.16 – Active user view filter options with Guest users selected

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