How to enable Microsoft 365 users to sign up for Redpen using their company's 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

1. Grant admin consent while signing up for Redpen

Step 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.

Step 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.

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

2. From Azure Active Directory admin center

Step 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.

Step 2: Click on Enterprise Applications from the left navigation

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

Step 4: Click on the Permissions

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

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

Step 7: Now the Redpen application has the content so organization users can sign up with their company’s email.