Administration
Run your tenant, team and security
The settings that are boring right up until they are not: who has access, how they sign in, what you are paying for, and what happens to your data when somebody asks.
Very little of this is daily work. Most of it is a handful of decisions made once and reviewed quarterly. That is why it gets skipped, and why the failures are so predictable. A colleague who left in March still has a session in September. A card expired between renewals and the invoice failed silently. Somebody sends an Auskunftsersuchen with a 30-day clock and nobody knows who answers it.
Cockpit screens: partly planned. Team, sign-in, apps, billing and the
security settings on these pages are shipped. Four things are not yet on your
tenant: a role editor for Cockpit colleagues, a self-service setup for
federating your own directory (Entra ID, Active Directory), notification rules,
and an audit-log export. Where a page touches one of them, it says so and
describes what you do in the meantime.
Start here.Tenants, apps and markets
explains the four words the rest of this area uses constantly. It also draws the
line between your team and your customers' buyers: two separate sets of people,
confused often enough to be worth twenty minutes.
Understand
- Tenants, apps and markets — what a tenant is, why everything is an app, what your subscription includes, and where markets fit.
Set up
Your team and your platform's shape.
- Users, roles and permissions — invite colleagues, suspend and remove them, and what roles can and cannot do today.
- Single sign-on — how sign-in works, what the failure page means, and connecting your own directory.
- Apps and the Marketplace — installing, approving an update that asks for more access, and what uninstalling does not delete.
Work with it
- Subscription and billing — your plan, add-ons, invoices, cards and quotes.
- Notifications — what the Cockpit tells you, and how to build the alert you need.
Keep it healthy
- Security and data protection — multi-factor authentication, sessions, the activity log, DSGVO, and where your data lives.
Related
- Contacts and roles — the other set of people entirely: your customers' buyers, and what they may do in your shop.
- Deciding your system of record — before you connect anything to anything.