Office365: How to add user to SharePoint Online site using PowerShell

Use Add-SPOUser to add an existing Office 365 user to SharePoint online site.

Note: user performing the action must be SharePoint Online Global Administrator and the user which is being added exists in Office 365.

If you want to know how to add a new user in Office 365, please follow the link here.

Now coming back to the ADD-SPOUser, it has three parameters which all are mandatory.

Site
        Site URL where user needs to added.
LoginName
        Login Name of user
Group
       SharePoint Security Group name, where user will be added.

Syntax

Add-SPOUser -Site <SiteUrl> -LoginName <UserName> -Group <Group>

 Varify if user has been added using GET-SPOUser cmdlet.

Office 365: Add user to Admin Center

Follow the following steps to add user to Office 365 admin center.

1. Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account at URL https://portal.office.com
2. Go to the Office 365 admin center by clicking the thumbnail as highlighted in the screen below.
   
3. In the Left hand navigation pan, Choose Users and click Active Users. 
4. Click "Add" or "Plus" icon as shown in the following screen shot.
   
   
   
5. A Modal Popup for create user will appear
6. Enter First Name and Last name, which are optional.
   
7. Display name will be a combination of First and Last name or you can add one of your choice.
8. User name will be part of email address, user will use to login to site. If tenant has more than one domain, select appropriate domain as well.
9. Select one from the Auto generated or Type Password. If Auto generated, Office 365 will display a password on next screen. If Type Password, it will allow you to add a password.
10. Type the Email address of the user where you want to receive information about this account.
11. Last option is for License, which is assigned to this user. If you do not have any license, leave it for future assignment or select from the available option how many licenses you want to assign this user.
12. Click "Create" and a new user will be created.

Create Content Types in Office 365

Every now and then we have to create content types in SharePoint either on premises or cloud. Content Types are reusable collection of settings like columns for list and libraries in SharePoint. These bind together items with their information.

We can create custom content types other than the default content types available in Office 365.

Follow the following steps to create a new content type in O365

1.  Go to site
2. Click on the settings icon on the top right corner
3. Go to Web Designer Galleries section and click “Site content types”
4. Click “create” on the top of Content Types list.
5. On the new Content Type page fill all the information and click save.