Enabling Microsoft 365 Users to Sign Up for Redpen with Their Company Domain Email Address

You can sign up with Redpen using your Microsoft account. Use your personal @outlook.com or @hotmail.com email address to sign up.

What if you want to sign up with your company’s Microsoft 365 account with a personalized email domain?

In order to sign up with the Redpen app with your company’s email domain, the Redpen application must have been granted organization-wide admin consent.

The below screenshot shows what a user will see when he/she tries to sign up for Redpen with the company’s Microsoft 365 account but without having admin consent to the Redpen application:

Grant admin consent to Redpen application

There 2 ways to grant admin consent:

  1. While signing up for Redpen
  2. From Azure Active Directory admin center

While signing up for Redpen

  1. Click on the “Continue with Microsoft” button from the Redpen sign-up screen

    Admin sees the following screen at the time of signing up to Redpen.

  2. Grant admin consent on behalf of the organization

    Check the “Consent on behalf of your organization” checkbox and click on the “Accept” button to grant the admin consent.

  3. Now the Redpen application has the content so organization users can sign up with their company’s email.

From Azure Active Directory admin center

  1. Go to Azure Active Directory admin center

    Note: Admin should first sign up with Redpen using Microsoft 365 account to see the Redpen app under Enterprise applications in Azure Active Directory admin center.

  2. Click on Enterprise Applications from the left navigation

  3. Search “Redpen” and then click on the Redpen application to open the application details

  4. Click on the Permissions

  5. Click the “Grant admin consent for <organization name>” button

  6. Click on the “Accept” button from the Permission requested dialog.

  7. Click on the “Accept” button from the Permission requested dialog.