How To Add Admin Rights to User for Windows Server in Microsoft Azure?

Pre-requisite: Azure

Azure is a cloud computing platform and service created by Microsoft. It provides a wide range of services that can be used to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. These services include virtual machines, storage, networking, databases, and a variety of tools for deploying and managing applications, such as Azure Active Directory for identity management and Azure DevOps for application development.

Here in this article, we will learn how to add administrator (admin) rights to a user for an Azure Windows Server in simple easy steps. To add admin rights to the user one should have a server account or admin rights on the servers to his account to provide the access to a new user. Take it as a note, you can follow the same for all the procedure steps to add Admin Rights to users in Azure Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022.

Steps to Add Admin Rights

Follow the step-by-step process to add administrator rights to users in any Azure Windows Servers.

Step 1: Log in to Azure Windows Server

Step 2: Open compmgmt.msc using the run command or you can also use PowerShell!

Step 3: Now in the Computer Management windows select Local Users and Groups >> Select Users

Step 4: Select Administrator to add the user account to this list.

Step 5: Select Member Of  >> Click Add. 

>> then add name of the user >> check domain user names >> select the user account >> Click on Ok

Step 6: Close all the opened windows and log off from the windows server. 

That’s it you are adding the azure windows server access to the user.