Saturday, February 1, 2020

Restricting None Privilege User Access to O365 Admin Portal in O365 Tenant


In general, you should prefer to restrict none privilege account access to your administrative portal URL’s. When your day to day user figures out one of the administration URL’s and wants to access them, out the box configuration will allow them to do so. This short article will list steps how to prevent users accessing to directory services information.

Let’s start listing admin known portal URL’s first then take a look how authenticated none privilege user would have access to such resources and why this would be not the best scenario for your business. First download this awesome script “ACCESS-O365-ADMIN-URLs-V1.ps1” from Tech-Net scripting library to help your administrators to access some of these URL’s more efficiently.

Some of the most used O365 Admin portal URL List.

Portal Name
Portal URL
Admin Portal
Azure Active Directory Admin Center
Azure Directory
One Drive Admin Portal
Teams Admin Portal
Lync Admin Portal (legacy)
SharePoint Admin Portal
TSA ECP Access
Quarantine Management
Message Trace



Preventing users to browse on the directory services
  • Log in to Azure portal with global administrator rights
  • Use following URL | https://portal.azure.com/#home |
  • On the left pane, click | Azure Active Directory |
  • Select | Users| then | User Settings | under  Administration Portal|
  • Restrict Access to Azure AD Administration Portal
  • Select | YES | and click save




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