


Once you have purchased Office 365, you can begin to administer the company. Microsoft Partners that have Delegated Administration capabilities have earned rights to use this service offering. The Global Administrator must approve the rights to a Microsoft partner to act as a delegated administrator. Only selected Microsoft partners have the ability to offer delegated administrator services to their customers. Partners, with Delegated Administrator rights by design, do not have a license and cannot access data or have permissions to use PowerShell. PowerShell commands will not work and the Global administrator will be denied access to the GUI command options. If a global administrator’s account is trying to change features on a subscription area that the account is not licensed to use, that action will not be permitted. The only rule to remember is this: to change features using PowerShell or in the administration graphical interfaces, you must have a license (such as Exchange, Lync, SharePoint or other centers) provision to the account to that is being used to change that feature. You can use the PowerShell environment to configure capabilities, or you can use the Graphical interfaces in the various admin centers (Exchange, Lync or the SharePoint) to manage Office 365 capabilities. The Global administrator account has full access to all Office 365 resources. The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
