Enterprise Admin

Your biggest impact as an admin comes from making Bitwarden easy for others to adopt. This course covers setup, smart policies, and onboarding strategies that turn password security into a daily habit.

[!TIP] Enterprise Admin The first few steps in the document assume you're going to create an organization. If you're joining an existing organization, skip down to Or join an existing organization.

Demo

Start a free trial (5 min)

Start your free trial to discover how Bitwarden can strengthen your organization's security posture with zero-knowledge encryption and seamless deployment.

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Watch a demo (20 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn more about available Bitwarden plans here.

Join a public training session (30 min)

Watch Bitwarden experts demonstrate security configurations, manage user permissions, and showcase Enterprise features live. See what's possible and get your questions answered!

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Browse the technical deep dive library (20 min)

Check out the full library of Bitwarden Brilliance sessions.

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Onboarding Resources

Customer Success Hub

This resource hub provides IT and security leaders with a proven path to password security success, offering a curated set of guides, checklists, resources, and milestones.

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Onboarding Playbook

This playbook provides IT administrators with a flexible roadmap for onboarding users to Bitwarden Password Manager across five key phases. While the phases are presented in sequence, they're not strictly linear. Many steps can happen in parallel based on your company's needs and timeline.

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Customer Activation Kit

This comprehensive toolkit provides everything admins and IT teams need to build excitement, communicate password security benefits, and turn your end users into security champions. Whether you're rolling out to a small team or enterprise-wide deployment, these resources support successful adoption at any scale.

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Member Signup Workflows

This document should be used to provide instructions to your users for signing up for Bitwarden. There are a number of different factors that will impact the exact steps your users need to take. Use this decision tree to help pick the correct option.

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Get started

Sign up for Bitwarden (2 min)

Bitwarden offers free accounts with no limits to the number of devices or number of logins you can use. Get started today.

Your master password

During sign-up, you'll create a master password for logging in to Bitwarden. It's important that your master password is:

• Memorable: Bitwarden employees and systems have no knowledge of, way to retrieve, or way to reset your master password. Do not forget your master password!
• Strong: A longer, more complex, and less common password is the best way to protect your account. Bitwarden provides a free password strength testing tool to test the strength of some memorable passwords you are considering.

Create an organization (2 min)

Create your organization today by selecting the New organization button in the Bitwarden web app:

Or join an existing organization (1 min)

If your organization has already been created, ask the IT team at your company or your manager for information on how you're expected to join Bitwarden. Some organizations send email invitations to your work inbox, others will allow you to enroll by simply logging in with your single sign-on (SSO) account.

Get to know the Admin Console (2 min)

Once created, you'll land in the Admin Console, which is the central hub for all things sharing and organization administration. As the organization owner, you'll be able to see your Vaultitems and collections, to manage Members, run Reports, change Billingsettings, and configure other organization Settings:

Managing vault items and collections (3 min)

As an owner or admin, you might be responsible for managing access to vault items, like shared credentials, for your company or team. You can create directly from the web app and assign them to collections in order to share them with your team:

Speaking of collections, they're an important construct for grouping together related logins, notes, cards, and identities for secure sharing with your organization:

• Organizations can define access to collections, allowing users or groups to access only the items they need.
• Items stored in an organization's collections(s) do not belong to any individual user, but rather to the organization.
• Organization-owned items must be included in at least one collection.

[!TIP] Items can also be imported Data can also be imported directly to your organization! Learn how here.

Policies, integrations, and more (2 min)

Enterprise Bitwarden organizations provide powerful tools for improving your online security and integrating with existing workflows and tools. Some other things you might manage as an administrator of your organization include:

• Setting up policies to enforce security rules for users, for example mandating use of two-step login.
• Auditing what credentials organization members have access to.
• Integrating Bitwarden with your existing SSO workflow.
• Verifying your organization's domain for an seamless login experience.
• Setting up a system for, or approving, device trust requirements for members.
• Integrating Bitwarden with your existing SIEM tool, like Microsoft Sentinel.

Import your data

Overview (1 min)

Import your company's passwords and data into Bitwarden for secure scalable sharing and autofill across your team. Choose an import method below based on your preferred Bitwarden client.

Prefer reading? Read the full documentation.

Web App (1 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn how to import passwords into your organization using the Admin Console in the Bitwarden Web App.

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Command Line Interface (1 min)

Learn how to import data into your vault with the Bitwarden CLI.

From a custom file (1 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn how to import your passwords and other data from a custom file.

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Managing Users

Managing members and groups (2 min)

As an owner or admin, you might be responsible for managing members of your team or your company more broadly. Members can be added to your organization:

• Directly from the Admin Console's Members page (learn more).
• By integrating Bitwarden with your IdP using SCIM (learn more).
• By integrating Bitwarden with your directory service using Directory Connector (learn more).

Members can assigned directly to collections in order to regulate what vault data they have access to, but so can groups. Groups relate together individual members and provide a scalable way to assign access to and permissions for specific collections:

SSO with Trusted Devices workflow (2 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn more about how users will experience the SSO Login workflow when the Enterprise Organization is configured for SSO with Trusted Device Encryption.

Claim your domain (2 min)

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Simplify the SSO process for your team by claiming your domain.

Policies

Data Ownership ( 1 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn how to enable the Enterprise Policy 'Centralize organization ownership' for improved risk analysis and collection management.

Read more: https://bitwarden.com/help/policies/#enforce-organization-data-ownership

Account Recovery (1 min)

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Free Families Plan (2 min)

Free Bitwarden Families plans are enabled by default and can be disabled in your organization settings.

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Video Chapters: Your organization may offer a free Bitwarden Families plan (separate from work) to secure personal passwords and share with up to 5 people, providing around-the-clock security.

Courses are also available for individuals, family admins and family members.

Reporting

Access Intelligence (2 min)

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Video Chapters: Learn how Bitwarden Access Intelligence can help you proactively identify credential risks, prioritize critical applications, guide employees to make password updates, and measure security improvements.

Read more: https://bitwarden.com/help/access-intelligence/

Support

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Ask the Community

Connect with experienced Bitwarden users who share tips and solve problems together. Ask questions on the Community Forums or Reddit.

Contact Support

Running into a technical issue or have account questions? Contact the Bitwarden support team for direct assistance.

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