Assign Global Admin Roles
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This article describes how to assign the Global Administrator role to an Office 365® user account.
Applies to: Administrator
Difficulty: Easy
Time Needed: Approximately 15 minutes
Tools Needed: Administrators need access to the Office 365 Control Panel
For more information about prerequisite terminology, see .
Organizations with multiple administrators might need to have more than one Global Administrator in Office 365. A Global Administrator account is required to access the . Global Administrators have almost unlimited access to your organization's settings and most of the data.
Note: Each Office 365 account is created with a default administrator account with the Global Administrator role. Credentials for the default administrator account are sent to the email address provided during the sign-up for Office 365 services.
Use the following steps to assign the Global Administrator role to a user:
Log in to your .
From the left menu, select Users.
Find the user you wish to assign the role to and select Manage.
Select Edit Username.
Under Role, select Global Administrator from the drop-down menu.
Select Save.
The selected user now has the Global Administrator role assigned to their account.
Warning: Microsoft® warns that having more than four Global Administrators on an account is a security threat.
As an administrator of your company’s email solution, you have a great deal of control over your account. If your administrator access is compromised, the results can be devastating to your business. A strong security policy is not complete without enabling multi-factor authentication. See for instructions.
To view the full description of the Global Administrator role in Office 365, see .