Creating a CodeTwo Admin Panel account

CodeTwo Admin Panel is where you add and configure your organization's Microsoft 365 tenant(s) and perform administrative tasks: manage the tenant's subscription and payment-related settings, grant access to the Admin Panel account to other admins, assign users to manage email signatures, and more. 

Watch our tutorial below to see how to create an Admin Panel account step by step or read the instructions below.

To access CodeTwo Admin Panel, either create a new account (Fig. 1.A) or sign in using an existing account (Fig. 1.B).

Fig. 1. The CodeTwo Admin Panel's sign-up (A) and sign-in (B) page.

When creating a new account, you can sign up using an existing work or school Microsoft account (the quickest and recommended option) or any other email address:

• Sign up to CodeTwo with a Microsoft account
• Sign up to CodeTwo Admin Panel with an email and password
• Which account type should I choose?

Sign up to CodeTwo with a Microsoft account

Click Sign up with a Microsoft account and sign in via a Microsoft's sign-in page to start using the Admin Panel. This will associate the Admin Panel with your Microsoft account via the Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) identity service, so your contact details will be automatically pulled from that account as well (see this article to learn how to change them). Your credentials are completely safe as they are passed directly and only to Microsoft servers, which is ensured by the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. CodeTwo does not store, copy or have access to your credentials.

Once signed in to CodeTwo Admin Panel, you will land on the Tenants page (Fig. 2.). See this article for a quick overview of the Admin Panel.

Fig. 2. The main page of CodeTwo Admin Panel.

To continue configuring CodeTwo Email Signatures 365, you need to add your Microsoft 365 tenant to CodeTwo Admin Panel.

Sign up to CodeTwo Admin Panel with an email and password

If you decide to create a dedicated CodeTwo Admin Panel account, click Sign up with email (see Fig. 1.B). Provide any valid email address you would like to use to sign in to the Admin Panel. It doesn’t need to be a Microsoft 365 account – the Microsoft 365 admin credentials will be required later on, when adding a tenant. Click Send verification code to receive a code that is required to verify your email address. Paste the code and click Continue, as shown in Fig. 3., to proceed to a sign up (registration) form. 

Fig. 3. Email address verification.

Here, you need to provide the remaining details necessary to finalize the account creation process (Fig. 4.).

Fig. 4. The registration form.

Once your account is created, you will land on the Tenants page in CodeTwo Admin Panel (as shown in Fig. 2.). See this article for a quick overview of the Admin Panel.

To continue configuring CodeTwo Email Signatures 365, you need to add your Microsoft 365 tenant to CodeTwo Admin Panel.

Which account type should I choose?

The table below compares using a Microsoft account versus a dedicated email and password to sign up to CodeTwo Admin Panel:

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Registering and configuring a Microsoft 365 tenant