Identity basics and licensing
Tenants, users, guests, groups, admin roles and licenses, explained so you can make safe everyday changes.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 30 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Microsoft 365
Skills you'll practise
- Describe what a tenant, a member user and a guest user are.
- Choose the least-privileged admin role for a task.
- Read a license report and spot wasted or missing licenses.
- Explain group-based licensing and its benefits.
Course outline
- 1.Identity basics and licensingVideo · 3 min
- 2.Tenants, users, roles and licensesLesson · 8 min
- 3.Admin roles and least privilege in the tenantLesson · 8 min
- 4.Assigning and reclaiming licensesLesson · 8 min
- 5.Identity basics and licensing: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 14 questions
- 6.Identity basics and licensing: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Microsoft Learn: What is Microsoft Entra ID?
- Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Entra built-in roles
- Microsoft Learn: What is group-based licensing in Microsoft Entra ID?
- Microsoft Learn: Manage emergency access accounts in Microsoft Entra ID
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