How to create Users on m365 using PowerShell

In Microsoft 365 (M365), users are the individual accounts that people sign in with to access Microsoft services like Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint.

STEP 1: Use a Microsoft Entra DC admin account to connect to your Microsoft 365 tenant

Open your PowerShell using administrator
Install the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK module. (Install-Module Microsoft.Graph -Scope CurrentUser) some packages would be installed
Connect to your m365 account (Connect-MgGraph -Scopes “User.ReadWrite.All”)
Login with your credentials and accept the permissions

Connection to M365 Account successful

STEP 2: Creating a single user

Define Password Profile. Every new user needs a password at creation, create a password profile:

$PasswordProfile = @{

Password = “Password@123”

ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = $true}

Create the User. Use New-MgUser with required parameters:

New-MgUser `

-DisplayName “Adam AKT” `

-GivenName “ADAM” `

-Surname “AKT” `

-UserPrincipalName “adam@yourdomain.com” `

-UsageLocation “US” `

-MailNickname “adam” `

-PasswordProfile $PasswordProfile `

-AccountEnabled:$true

This creates a user named Adam AKT with an initial password. The user will be forced to change their password on first login.

STEP 3: Creating Multiple Users

Create a CSV file with the following structure (UserPrincipalName must be unique. Password must meet your organization’s password policy):

# Import users from CSV

$Users = Import-Csv “C:\Users\FEYI\Desktop\Book5.csv”

# Create password profile

foreach ($User in $Users) {

$PasswordProfile = @{

Password = $User.Password

ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = $true

}

# Create new user

New-MgUser `

-DisplayName $User.DisplayName `

-GivenName $User.GivenName `

-Surname $User.Surname `

-UserPrincipalName $User.UserPrincipalName `

-UsageLocation $User.UsageLocation `

-MailNickname $User.MailNickname `