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. 

Signature management is done separately at app.codetwo.com and does not require access to CodeTwo Admin Panel. However, before you start working with email signatures, you first need to configure the Admin Panel account for your organization and register your tenant, as explained in this article and the ones that follow.

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).

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

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.

Important

A user who creates a new Admin Panel account for their organization automatically becomes the Owner of that account. CodeTwo Admin Panel Owners can invite other users to join their organization's Admin Panel account as admins (see this article to learn how to do so), allowing them to perform management tasks on tenants and subscriptions. However, you cannot invite other admins when using the Email and password account type. Learn more about admin roles in CodeTwo Email Signatures 365

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.

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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. 

The verification code stays valid for 20 minutes. After this time, the code will expire, and you will need to request a new one.

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Fig. 3. Email address verification.

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

The registration form.
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.

You can change your account type from a dedicated CodeTwo account (email and password) to Microsoft account (but not the other way around) at any time on the account management pages in the Admin Panel. Learn more

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:

  Microsoft account Email and password 
Support for MFA Yes No
Invite other admins to manage Admin Panel Yes (learn more) No
Password change requirement According to your Microsoft 365 policy Every 3 months
CAPTCHA requirement on sign-up No Yes
Change sign-in method No Yes - to Microsoft account

See next

Registering and configuring a Microsoft 365 tenant

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