Microsoft 365 admin portal directory
Which admin portal manages what, in one table — deliberately left as a shell where the exact deep-link URL is not yet owner-confirmed, rather than guessed.
Portal names and what each one manages are already used across this site’s guides — the “guide” link on each row goes to one of them. Deep-link URLs are a different matter: admin-portal shortcuts move, and this site only publishes a domain it has already cited, verbatim, inside a guide’s own body — six rows qualify that way so far. The rest read “not yet verified” rather than a guess.
| Portal | Manages | Direct link | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 admin center | Users, licences, groups, tenant-wide settings | admin.microsoft.com | Guide → |
| Microsoft Entra admin center | Identities, Conditional Access, PIM, app registrations | entra.microsoft.com | Guide → |
| Self-service password reset | End-user password reset (not an admin portal) | https://aka.ms/sspr | Guide → |
| Microsoft Purview compliance portal | DLP, sensitivity labels, retention, eDiscovery, audit | purview.microsoft.com | Guide → |
| Microsoft Intune admin center | Device enrolment, compliance policies, app deployment, Autopilot | intune.microsoft.com | Guide → |
| Microsoft Defender portal | Endpoint, Office, Cloud Apps, and XDR incidents and hunting | security.microsoft.com | Guide → |
| Exchange admin center | Mailboxes, mail flow rules, connectors | Not yet verified | Guide → |
| Teams admin center | Teams policies, Teams Phone, Teams Rooms | Not yet verified | Guide → |
| SharePoint admin center | Site collections, sharing policy, storage | Not yet verified | Guide → |
Why most links are blank
A wrong admin-portal URL is worse than no URL — it sends someone confidently to a dead redirect or, worse, a lookalike page. The `aka.ms/*` shortcuts Microsoft publishes for its admin centers do move as products get renamed and portals consolidate, and confirming each one is current is exactly the kind of check this site publishes only once a human has verified it. This table exists so the structure is ready for an owner to fill in safely, one confirmed row at a time, rather than the alternative of publishing nothing at all or guessing.