In this quickstart, you'll set up a new group and assign members to the group.

Then
you'll view your organization's group and assigned members. Throughout this guide,
you'll create a user and group that you can use in other quickstarts and tutorials.

You can view your organization's existing groups and group members using the
Microsoft Entra admin center. Groups are used to manage users that all need the
same access and permissions for potentially restricted apps and services.

Prerequisites
Before you begin, you'll need to:

Have an Azure subscription. If you don't have one, create a free account.
Create a Microsoft Entra tenant. For more information, see Access the portal and
create a new tenant.
Create a new group
Create a new group, named MDM policy - West. For more information about creating a
group, see How to create a basic group and add members.

Tip

Steps in this article might vary slightly based on the portal you start from.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.

Browse to Identity > Groups > All groups.

Screenshot of the All Groups page.

Select New group.

Complete the options in the Group page:

Group name: Type MDM policy - West

Membership type: Select Assigned.
Screenshot of the New group page.

Select Create.

Create a new user

A user must exist before being added as a group member, so you'll need to create a
new user. For this quickstart, we've added a user named Alain Charon. Check the
"Custom domain names" tab first to get the verified domain name in which to create
users. For more information about creating a user, see How to add or delete users.

Browse to Identity > Users > All users.

Select New user > Create new user.

Screenshot of the New user page.

Complete the User page:

User principal name: Type alain@contoso.com.

Display name: Type Alain Charon.
Copy the auto-generated password provided in the Password box and select Create.

Add a group member

Now that you have a group and a user, you can add Alain Charon as a member to the
MDM policy - West group. For more information about adding group members, see the
Manage groups article.

Browse to Identity > Groups > All groups.

Select the MDM policy - West group created earlier.
From the MDM policy - West Overview page, select Members.
Select Add members, and then search and select Alain Charon.
Choose Select.
View all groups
You can see all the groups for your organization in the Groups - All groups page.

Browse to Identity > Groups > All groups.

The All groups page appears, showing all your active groups.

Screenshot of the 'Groups-All groups' page, showing all existing groups.

Search for a group

Search the All groups page to find the MDM policy – West group.

Browse to Identity > Groups > All groups.

From the All groups page, type MDM into the Search box.

The search results appear under the Search box, including the MDM policy - West
group.

Screenshot of the 'Groups' search page showing matching search results.

Select the group MDM policy – West.

View the group info on the MDM policy - West Overview page, including the number of
members of that group.

Screenshot of MDM policy – West Overview page with member info.

View group members

Now that you've found the group, you can view all the assigned members.

Select Members from the Manage area, and then review the complete list of member
names assigned to that specific group, including Alain Charon.

Screenshot of the list of members assigned to the MDM policy – West group.

Clean up resources
The group you just created is used in other articles in this documentation. If
you'd rather not use this group, you can delete it and its assigned members using
the following steps:

Browse to Identity > Groups > All groups.

On the All groups page, search for the MDM policy - West group.

Select the MDM policy - West group.

The MDM policy - West Overview page appears.

Select Delete.

The group and its associated members are deleted.