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title: Admin UI tour
path: administration/admin-ui-tour
status: published
---

The ScaiDrive admin console is a separate web app at your organization's admin URL (typically `https://drive.example.com/admin/`). It needs an account with the `admin` role on at least one tenant. From here you provision users, manage shares, configure compliance, and integrate with the rest of your infrastructure.

This page is a roadmap of what's where. Each section below has its own page with the details.

## Layout

The admin console has a left sidebar grouped into:

| Group | Pages | What you do here |
|---|---|---|
| **Overview** | Dashboard | Storage utilization, active users, recent activity |
| **People** | [Users](/docs/scaidrive/administration/users-and-groups), [Groups](/docs/scaidrive/administration/users-and-groups) | Account lifecycle, group membership, quotas |
| **Storage** | Shares, [Quotas](/docs/scaidrive/administration/shares-and-quotas), External Links | Provisioning storage, capping usage, link policy |
| **Identity** | [Identity Providers](/docs/scaidrive/administration/identity-providers), [SCIM](/docs/scaidrive/administration/scim-provisioning), Sessions, Applications, Webhooks | SSO, automated provisioning, OAuth client management |
| **Compliance** | [Activity Log, Audit Log](/docs/scaidrive/administration/audit-and-activity), [Compliance](/docs/scaidrive/administration/compliance-policies), [SIEM](/docs/scaidrive/administration/siem-integration) | Auditing, retention, DLP, legal holds, eDiscovery |
| **Connectors** | [SMB](/docs/scaidrive/administration/connectors-setup), [SharePoint](/docs/scaidrive/administration/connectors-setup) | Hybrid sync with existing storage |
| **AI** | [Vectorization Providers, Policies](/docs/scaidrive/administration/vectorization-providers) | Semantic search configuration |
| **System** | Settings, Tenants, Partners, Admins | Global config, multi-tenancy, admin team |

## Day-zero checklist

If you've just stood up a fresh ScaiDrive instance, work through this list in order:

1. **Connect SSO** — [Identity Providers](/docs/scaidrive/administration/identity-providers). Until you do, nobody can sign in.
2. **Create your first shares** — Storage → Shares → **New share**. Each team gets one.
3. **Set default quotas** — System → Settings → Storage. Pick a sensible per-user default.
4. **Provision users** — either let them sign up via SSO on first use, or push them via [SCIM](/docs/scaidrive/administration/scim-provisioning) if your IdP supports it.
5. **Configure retention** — System → Settings → Retention. How long to keep file versions and trashed files.
6. **Enable audit-log export** — Compliance → SIEM. Send events to your SIEM if you have one.
7. **Decide on external sharing** — System → Settings → Sharing. Allow external links? With what cap on expiry / download count?

## Day-two operations

Once the system is live:

- **[Activity Log](/docs/scaidrive/administration/audit-and-activity)** — what users did today.
- **Sessions** — kill a stolen session.
- **[DLP rules](/docs/scaidrive/administration/compliance-policies)** — automated content scanning and blocking.
- **[Legal holds](/docs/scaidrive/administration/compliance-policies)** — preserve files for litigation.

## What's next

- [Users and groups](/docs/scaidrive/administration/users-and-groups) — provisioning accounts.
- [Identity providers](/docs/scaidrive/administration/identity-providers) — SSO setup.
- [Deployment](/docs/scaidrive/operations/deployment) — how to install / scale the platform itself.