Administering 1Password Business: groups, vaults, policies and the user lifecycle
For IT staff who run a 1Password Business account: the built-in groups (Owners, Administrators, Team Members, Security, Provision Managers) and custom groups, a recovery plan that never leaves the account without an owner, vault permissions and team policies (account password, two-factor authentication), onboarding and offboarding, automated provisioning with an identity provider, and the audit log, Insights and Business Watchtower.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- 1Password
Skills you'll practise
- Choose between Owners, Administrators, the Security group and a custom group for a given administrative task
- Set up a recovery plan with at least two owners and recover a team member's account safely
- Grant vault access with the least permissions needed and explain how group and individual permissions combine
- Configure account password and two-factor authentication policies in the right order
- Offboard a team member in the documented order without losing Employee vault items
- Use the audit log, Insights and the Business Watchtower report to find and follow up issues
Course outline
- 1.Administering 1Password BusinessVideo · 2 min
- 2.Groups, roles and a recovery planLesson · 18 min
- 3.Vaults, permissions and policiesLesson · 18 min
- 4.Onboarding, offboarding, provisioning and reportingLesson · 19 min
- 5.Administering 1Password Business: groups, vaults, policies and the user lifecycle: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Final exam11 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.
- 1Password Support: Use the built-in groups in your organization (Owners, Administrators, Team Members, Security, Provision Managers; default permissions)
- 1Password Support: Use custom groups in 1Password Business (group permissions)
- 1Password Support: Implement a recovery plan for your organization
- 1Password Support: Recover accounts for family or team members
- 1Password Support: Best practices for securing your 1Password Business account
- 1Password Support: Create, share, and manage vaults in your organization (vault permissions)
- 1Password Support: Manage team policies in 1Password Business
- 1Password Support: Enforce 1Password account password requirements in 1Password Business
- 1Password Support: Manage two-factor authentication for your organization
- 1Password Support: Add and remove team members
- 1Password Support: Offboard a team member
- 1Password Support: Set up 1Password automated provisioning
- 1Password Support: Best practices for automated provisioning
- 1Password Support: Migrate from a self-hosted SCIM bridge to automated provisioning
- 1Password Support: Unlock 1Password with single sign-on (SSO)
And 3 more.
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