In Microsoft 365, administrators can use the M365 Admin Center to either block or unblock sign-in access of Office 365 users. While it’s possible to enable or disable access for individual user accounts or multiple accounts in bulk, identifying and locating the necessary users within the admin center can be a time-consuming process.
Specmasoft’s Office 365 Manager is a desktop-based Microsoft 365 user management tool that helps you locate specific users by offering a range of reports, including inactive users, users who have never logged in, recently created users, and more. Once you’ve identified the users, you can change their sign-in access directly from the report view. Additionally, the tool allows you to select the necessary users from a CSV file.
Steps to Enable or Disable Microsoft 365 User Accounts in Bulk
Proceed with the following steps to find and select the Azure AD users you wish to update their sign-in access, and subsequently disable (block) or enable (unblock) the selected user accounts using this tool.
- Open the UI console of the Office 365 Manager application.
- Go to the Azure AD page, which is the default page when you open the application.
- Within the Office 365 Users tab, in the report picker, select the report that matches your needs, such as Inactive Users in Last N days, Never Logged-In Users, Recently created users, or any other user report that includes the users for whom you wish to update sign-in access.
- Select the required users from the report grid.
- In the Update Users section, click the Edit Sign-in button to open the Update Sign-In Access action UI.
- If you haven’t selected any users from the report grid, the application will prompt you to pick users using one of two options: Search and Select Users or Import Users From CSV.
- In the action UI, select the desired action to be performed: Allow Sign-In Access (Enable Account) or Block Sign-In Access (Disable Account).
- Click the Update button to start the account reset process.
