Where configuration happens.
WHAT ADMINISTRATION CENTRES EXIST
A central portal for users, licences and service configuration Separate portals for individual services A portal for identity A portal for device management A portal for cloud infrastructure A portal for security and compliance
WHY SEVERAL
The products evolved separately, and configuration is distributed.
WHAT THAT MEANS PRACTICALLY
Finding the right setting requires knowing which portal owns it.
WHAT TO LEARN
Which portal governs which capability.
WHAT ELSE IS AVAILABLE
Command-line administration, through modules for each service Programmatic access, through the unified graph interface
WHAT TO USE FOR REPEATED WORK
Scripting, rather than portals.
WHY
It is faster, repeatable, and auditable.
WHAT TO DOCUMENT
Configuration you changed and why.
WHY
Portals show current state, not reasoning.
WHAT TO CHECK REGULARLY
Service health, which reports platform incidents.
WHAT TO SUBSCRIBE TO
Change notifications, since services change continuously.
