Administering a Bitwarden organization: roles, collections, policies and recovery
For IT staff who run a Bitwarden organization from the Admin Console: member roles (owner, admin, user, custom), groups and collection permissions, enterprise policies (single organization, require two-step login, master password requirements, account recovery administration), onboarding (invite, accept, confirm) and revoking access, account recovery, Directory Connector and SCIM, and event logs.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Bitwarden · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Assign the least member role, or a custom role, for a given administrative task
- Grant collection access to groups with the right collection permission
- Plan enterprise policy rollout in the right order and predict which members will be revoked
- Onboard members through invite, accept and confirm, verifying the fingerprint phrase
- Explain who can recover whose account and what account recovery does and doesn't do
- Choose between Directory Connector and SCIM, and use event logs to investigate changes
Course outline
- 1.Administering a Bitwarden organizationVideo · 2 min
- 2.Organizations, member roles and collectionsLesson · 18 min
- 3.Enterprise policiesLesson · 18 min
- 4.Members, recovery, provisioning and event logsLesson · 19 min
- 5.Administering a Bitwarden organization: roles, collections, policies and recovery: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 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.
- Bitwarden Help: Organizations overview (Admin Console, organization types)
- Bitwarden Help: Member roles (owner, admin, user, custom roles)
- Bitwarden Help: Collection permissions
- Bitwarden Help: About groups
- Bitwarden Help: Enterprise policies
- Bitwarden Help: Invite and manage members (invite, accept, confirm; member statuses)
- Bitwarden Help: Temporarily revoke access
- Bitwarden Help: About account recovery
- Bitwarden Help: Event logs
- Bitwarden Help: About Directory Connector
- Bitwarden Help: About SCIM
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