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How to add user accounts to Microsoft 365

Introduction

This is our 4th article in a complete series on migrating your emails to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online.

Now the domain is verified and you are logged back in we want to create the usernames / email accounts for all the email accounts we will be migrating across to Microsoft 365. If you only have one email address and it is the one you have setup in Microsoft 365 then you just need to do a quick check as most of it is already setup..

1, Click the 3 horizontal lines in top left corner and then select Users and then Active users.

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2. Your name should be listed with the correct username and a license for the Microsoft 365 license you purchased.

3. Click on your name and make sure all fields and spellings are correct.

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4. If you are migrating more than one email account you need to click Add a user.

5. Ener their name, create a password and unselect the box for Require this user to change their password when they first sign in. 

6. Click Save and repeat process for any other users/email addresses you need.

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If you are migrating Gmail to Office 365 then proceed to STEP 4A.

Otherwise the next step in the migration of your emails to Microsoft 365 is to make changes in the Microsoft Entra Admin Center so BitTitan MigrationWizz can talk to Microsoft 365.

Only for Gmail users