M365 – SharePoint Online – SharePoint Admin Center – Global Reader role available now

Hi All,

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂 Today sharing small news from Feb 2020 month.

News / Update : Global reader role now available in SharePoint admin center.

Details:

• This role is read-only counterpart to Global Admin Role
• Users in this role can read settings and administrative information across Microsoft 365 services, but cannot take any actions.
• Users who are assigned this role will have read-only access to all info and settings in the new SharePoint admin center.
• User in this role can be used with other limited admins like SharePoint Admin to check any issue / settings without having Global Admin.

In M365 Admin Center:

• Login to M365 Admin center – https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/homepage

• Click on “Roles” from the left pane as shown in Fig1.
• Once we clicked on “Roles” menu, in right pane “Roles” list will be open as

• Please click on “Global reader” role, “Global reader” pane will open as

• From above Fig3, “Global reader” contains details like
  • To whom this role should be added = > First tab – “General”
  • Who are current admins => Second tab – “Assigned admins”
  • What permissions this role have => Third tab – “Permissions

Assigning “Global reader” role to user – I have assigned “Global reader” role to one of the user – prasham1@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com in my tenant as

Once I assigned “Global reader” role, logged in with the respective user and tried to change the setting, the given user cant change the setting. Following message shown as

References:

• Administrator role permissions in Azure Active Directory
• Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Try it out this role 🙂 assign this role to some user and test it out 🙂

Stay tuned 🙂 Njoy the beautiful LIFE journey 🙂 Take Care:)