Now that we've seen the theory, let's go
to the lab and take a look at the
SharePoint Online admin center in the demo
environment. Okay, we're now in the demo
environment and let me open up Edge over
here where I'm simply logged in, into
office.com that you can simply access by
going to portal.office .com or directly to
office.com and because I'm an
administrator, I have the admin icon over
here, which will bring me to the Microsoft
365 admin center. Now depending on the
permissions that you have, you're going to
see different things on this dashboard and
in the navigation. Right now, it doesn't
actually show me all of the navigation so
I'll just click on Show All. This way we
see everything and I have to go to the
bottom in order to see the admin centers.
And again here, it will not even show me
all of the admin centers. If we want to
see all of them, we have to go to All
admin centers. Here again, depending your
permissions, you'll see all of the
different admin centers you have access
to, and let's go to SharePoint. The URL of
the SharePoint admin center will always be
made up of the name of your tenant so
globomantics.org - admin.sharepoint .com.
And you can access it that way if you're
ever in a SharePoint site so I'm just
giving you a small trick here. Let's say
I'm in a SharePoint site on the SharePoint
home here, and I want to get to the admin
quickly, I just delete the rest, add a
-admin over here, and it'll bring me to
the SharePoint Online admin center, or you
can of course save it to your bookmarks or
to your favorites. Now as we are on the
front page of the SharePoint Online admin
center, you'll see I have the files by
activity type, total, and active sites, as
well as information about the message
center and service health, but we'll cover
the message center and service help later
in this course. Now what do we have, what
are we able to do? First of all, I'm able
to see the active sites, which are all of
the different sites or site collections
inside my tenant. I can see the site
collection recycle bin. I have access to
sharing policies, access control policies,
auto tenant settings such as site storage
limits, site creation. I also have access
to API management. We'll cover all of
those details in this course so that way
I'm going over them quickly. Something
that's really important is that some of
the things that I mentioned that you can
do from the admin center such as user
profiles, taxonomy, and search are not in
the main navigation. That is because at
the time of recording this course in
September 2019, Microsoft is working on
the new version of the admin center, and
what I'm showing you right now is the new
version of it; however, not all of the
management features have made it in the
new version of the admin center, so
Microsoft put them in the classic
features. Now I personally disagree with
calling this classic, because it might
cause confusion between classic SharePoint
and modern SharePoint and a lot of those
features also work with modern SharePoint,
but this is where they are. So here I can
manage my manage method, my term store,
user profile, search, apps, and I can even
go into more classic features where I can
manage business connectivity services,
secure store, records management,
InfoPath, as well as have access to the
hybrid picker, and the classic site
collection page. As time goes by, and
hopefully in the next few months or years,
some of those user interfaces will get
revamped and will get integrated part of
the main navigation of the new admin
center, but it might take a while so if
you're not finding what you're looking
for, make sure that you go into classic
features, and remember to click that View
All button, because Microsoft sometimes
puts them in there. This is it for the
introduction to the admin center and how
you get there. Throughout this course,
we're really going to learn how to use it
from creating, deleting sites, managing
external sharing and access control,
managing site creation and storage, as
well as managing all of the other services
like user profiles, taxonomy, and search,
but for this demo, we really wanted to
concentrate on how to get to the
SharePoint Online admin center. Now that
we know how to get there using the UI,
let's go back to the slides and talk about
how we can connect to SharePoint Online by using PowerShell.