Question

You are the Microsoft 365 administrator for Contoso. HR provides a CSV file containing 350 new employees with their display names, user principal names, department, and job titles. You need to create all 350 accounts in Microsoft Entra ID efficiently while ensuring each account is enabled and requires a password change at first sign-in. Which approach should you use?

Accepted Answer

Import the CSV with Import-Csv and pipe the records to New-MgUser in Microsoft Graph PowerShell, setting a PasswordProfile with ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn.

Answer

Use the Microsoft 365 admin center to add each user individually and manually set the password reset requirement.

Answer

Use the Exchange Online PowerShell New-Mailbox cmdlet in a foreach loop over the CSV rows.

Answer

Upload the CSV directly to the Microsoft Entra admin center's dynamic membership rule builder.