You just opened a browser window, browsed to Office 365 Admin Center URL, provided credentials and got logged in… big deal. Now open the Office 365 admin portal and login with the admin account and when prompted save the credentials.Īnd you will be redirected to Office 365 Admin Portal. You don’t need to “Sign in” and enable google sync here. You can verify that by looking at the selected “Avataar” on top right corner of the browser. Browse with New ProfileĪs soon as you click “Add” on the previous screen, a new browser window will open, running as a newly created profile. Go ahead and click “Add”.Īnd that’s it a new profile has been created now. On next screen, type in the Profile name like “O365 Admin Account”, select an Avataar and select the checkbox “Create a desktop shortcut for this user”. In my case, you can see there are really multiple profiles ? Click on the “Add Person” button. It will open a new window showing any other profile already created. Create Profileįirst Open Chrome Browser and go to Settings and click on “Manage other people”
Now that we know what we are going to do, let’s see how to get there. Since each profile comes with it’s own cookie, it doesn’t interfere with any other browser window opened with another account.
The idea is to create multiple such profiles (one for each such account) and create a shortcut on the desktop for quick access. This feature is known as “Persons” in chrome.
What I am talking about is using multiple profiles in chrome which come with their own Cookies, Cache and history. I have grown fond of Google Chrome browser like many of you and this feature just adds to it’s awesomeness ? The point is that we need an easy way to use multiple accounts with Office 365. You get access denied on certain page and it’s not evident that browser picked up normal user account and not the admin account.When you click any link from your mail or browser history, it automatically uses the account last used in that browser session and that may not be the intended account.If you are using Incognito/InPrivate browser, you will have to type in credentials every time.sign out, close browser and probably clear cookies as well! If you selected remember password, it might log you in automatically and will be difficult to change accounts.You may have to type in credentials multiple times for each account in different browsers.Suppose you have 2 different accounts, you use to access Office 365 – One a normal user account and another a tenant admin account and you need to use both accounts frequently. Let’s take a look at what we are talking about. If you use Microsoft Edge Browser, look at this article instead, which explains how to achieve the same with Egde. Even though, the interface for switching logged in accounts in office 365 has become better now, than it used to be few months ago, it still leaves a lot to be desired. Like one account for normal user access, another with Tenant Admin permissions and so on. More often than not, in Office 365, IT workers find themselves using multiple accounts.