Microsoft Entra ID
General

Use My Staff to delegate user management

In brief

My Staff access is now determined by administrative role assignments and their administrative unit scope. The legacy settings under Manage user feature settings no longer affect behavior and are being removed.

What Entra admins need to know

Administrators should use role assignments and administrative unit scoping to control My Staff access; no action is required.

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Manage your users with My Staff

How to enableWho can access My Staff

After configuringAccess to My Staff is determined by administrative units, you can apply this scope to your users who access My Staff.role assignment. Only users who are assigned an administrative role can access My Staff. To enable My Staff, completeand the following steps:

  1. Signadministrative unit scope of that role assignment determines which users they can manage. After you configure administrative units and assign roles, those users can sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center asMy Staff at least a User Administrator or Groups Administratorhttps://mystaff.microsoft.com.

  2. Browse to Entra ID > Users > User settings.

  3. Under User feature, select Manage user feature settings.

  4. Under Administrators can access My Staff, you can choose to enable for all users, selected users, or no user access.

Conditional Access

When a user selects My Staff, they are shown the names of the administrative units over which they have administrative permissions. In the My Staff user documentation, we use the term "location" to refer to administrative units. If an administrator's permissions don't have an administrative unit scope, then the permissions apply across the organization.

After My Staff has been enabled, the usersUsers who are enabled and have been assigned an administrative role can access itMy Staff through https://mystaff.microsoft.com. They can select an administrative unit to view the users in that unit, and select a user to open their profile.

Limitations

My Staff shows up to 999 users per administrative unit.

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