Manually Delete Office365 Users From Portal

Manually Delete Office365 Users From Portal

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Add new users or delete existing users from your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) organization. To add or delete users you must be a User administrator or Global administrator.

Add a new user

You can create a new user using the Azure Active Directory portal.

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To add a new user, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal as a User administrator for the organization.

  2. Search for and select Azure Active Directory from any page.

  3. Select Users, and then select New user.

  4. On the User page, enter information for this user:

    • Name. Required. The first and last name of the new user. For example, Mary Parker.

    • User name. Required. The user name of the new user. For example, mary@contoso.com.

      The domain part of the user name must use either the initial default domain name, <yourdomainname>.onmicrosoft.com, or a custom domain name, such as contoso.com. For more information about how to create a custom domain name, see Add your custom domain name using the Azure Active Directory portal.

    • Groups. Optionally, you can add the user to one or more existing groups. You can also add the user to groups at a later time. For more information about adding users to groups, see Create a basic group and add members using Azure Active Directory.

    • Directory role: If you require Azure AD administrative permissions for the user, you can add them to an Azure AD role. You can assign the user to be a Global administrator or one or more of the limited administrator roles in Azure AD. For more information about assigning roles, see How to assign roles to users.

    • Job info: You can add more information about the user here, or do it later. For more information about adding user info, see How to add or change user profile information.

  5. Copy the autogenerated password provided in the Password box. You'll need to give this password to the user to sign in for the first time.

  6. Select Create.

The user is created and added to your Azure AD organization.

Add a new guest user

You can also invite new guest user to collaborate with your organization by selecting Invite user from the New user page. If your organization's external collaboration settings are configured such that you're allowed to invite guests, the user will be emailed an invitation they must accept in order to begin collaborating. For more information about inviting B2B collaboration users, see Invite B2B users to Azure Active Directory

Add a consumer user

There might be scenarios in which you want to manually create consumer accounts in your Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) directory. For more information about creating consumer accounts, see Create and delete consumer users in Azure AD B2C.

Add a new user within a hybrid environment

If you have an environment with both Azure Active Directory (cloud) and Windows Server Active Directory (on-premises), you can add new users by syncing the existing user account data. For more information about hybrid environments and users, see Integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory.

Delete a user

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You can delete an existing user using Azure Active Directory portal.

To delete a user, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal using a User administrator account for the organization.

  2. Search for and select Azure Active Directory from any page.

  3. Search for and select the user you want to delete from your Azure AD tenant. For example, Mary Parker.

  4. Select Delete user.

The user is deleted and no longer appears on the Users - All users page. The user can be seen on the Deleted users page for the next 30 days and can be restored during that time. For more information about restoring a user, see Restore or remove a recently deleted user using Azure Active Directory.

When a user is deleted, any licenses consumed by the user are made available for other users.

Note

You must use Windows Server Active Directory to update the identity, contact information, or job information for users whose source of authority is Windows Server Active Directory. After you complete your update, you must wait for the next synchronization cycle to complete before you'll see the changes.

Next steps

After you've added your users, you can do the following basic processes:

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Or you can do other user management tasks, such as adding guest users from another directory or restoring a deleted user. For more information about other available actions, see Azure Active Directory user management documentation.

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How to delete a user from Office 365 which has been synced with Dirsync

posted 15 Jul 2014, 06:27 by Colum Brady
Posted by : Harm-Jan van Tielzaterdag 15 oktober 2011

I have been testing some things with my account in Office 365.
Unfortunately, where people are testing, thing go wrong.
Somehow, my user in Office 365 got corrupted and all of my things in the cloud were unavailable.
Luckily , it was a test user and no actual data got lost.
First things first. I want to point out that deleting a user in Office 365 using this method also deletes the corresponding mailbox and all the other settings for other Office 365 products.
Only use this as a last effort to delete the user/mailbox.


So, we need to delete the user from Office 365. Easy, just log in to the portal, browse to the user and click delete. Well....no.
Because the users got synced with Dirsync, AD is leading and therefore the user can't be deleted from the portal.
Well, then I tried deleting the user with Microsoft Online Module for Powershell. ( Installed on ADFS )
First, connecting to the MSOLService and importing the cmdlets to manage Office 365.
Next step was removing the user with the following command.
'Remove-MSOLuser -userprincipalname 'userlogonname'
Again, AD is leading so powershell gave me the following error.

Then I thought, AD is leading, Dirsync is ILM, so there must be another way.
And there is! Using the ILM console we can successfully delete a user from Offie 365, without deleting the user in AD.
It is recommended to do this just after a sync, because we don't want Dirsync to start syncing while we are changing things in ILM.
Open the ILM console on the Dirsync server : C:Program FilesMicrosoft Online Directory SyncSYNCBUSUIShellmiiclient.exe
Then open the tab ' Metaverse Search'
The metaverse is a database that keeps track of user data from all the connected systems.
In this case we only have 2 systems, AD and Office 365.
So in the met averse search we will find one User ( person ) with data from AD and Office 365.
Create a new search scope to find the user you want to delete from Office 365.
Once the user is found, double click the user.

Open the tab 'Connectors' .
You will see 2 connectors, one with all the imported data from AD, and one with all the exported data to Office 365.
Select the AD connector ( where Management Agent value is SourceAD) and click 'Disconnect' so only the Office 365 connector ( TargetWebService ) remains.
This simulates the user being deleted from AD, as there is no longer any data present for the AD connector.

Next, go to the Management Agents tab.
Right click the 'TargetWebService' connector and choose 'Run'.
Select the 'Full Confirming Import' run profile and click ok.

Repeat the steps above and choose the 'Export' run profile instead of the Confirming Import.
When the export is finished, the user object is deleted from Office 365.
This is also shown in the history under the operations tab in ILM.
Click the last task and the deletion will be shown in the bottom left corner.
In the next Sync the user will be recreated in Office 365.
If you want to create a new on-premise mailbox for the user ( because the Online mailbox is deteled, and there is no on-prem mailbox ), there are a couple of extra steps to follow.
If you open the Exchange EMC right away and use the ' new-mailbox ' command for the just deleted user, you will notice the EMC cannot find your user as it searches for users with no mailbox.
To create a new mailbox for the existing user you have to clear all the exchange attributes in AD for that user. If you open the attribute editor you will notice that all the Exchange attributes remain in AD. If you don't clear the values, Exchange EMC will not create a new mailbox.
Open the properties of a user without a mailbox, and check which attributes had no value.
Clear the ones that don't have a value with the non mailbox enabled user.

Again, only use this as a last effort because all mailbox content is deleted.
If this happens with a normal user instead of a test user, there is a way to get your e-mails back.
With my test user, I opened outlook in Offline mode and created a PST, Cached mode needs to be enabled for this to work!
When the new mailbox was created I imported the PST and the e-mails are back.
Hope you don't have to use this, but it's good to know how a user can be deleted.