Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

Conquer Microsoft 365 administration, from the inside out!

Dive into Microsoft 365 administration and harness the full power of cloud scaling, automation, and availability in Microsoft 365! This supremely well-organized reference packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, tips, and workarounds; all you need to continually enhance organizational agility, productivity, and security. Three Microsoft insiders help you fully leverage Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), Azure AD, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and more. Discover how experts tackle today's key tasks and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.

• Plan deployment, understand downstream impacts, and avoid pitfalls
• Prepare your environment, establish governance, and enforce compliance
• Assess and improve security posture with Microsoft 365 Secure Score
• Move to identity-based security with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
• Plan identity types, authentication, identity federation, and AAD Connect deployment
• Replace costly premises infrastructure with cloud-based Azure synchronization
• Manage complex Azure AD scenarios such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Automate Azure to improve consistency, security, and standardization
• Prepare for Exchange Online cloud-only deployments, hybrid coexistence, and migration
• Move mailboxes and public folders to Exchange Online
• Understand Microsoft Teams concepts, architecture, and user interface
• Support meetings, webinars, and live events
• Deliver full-featured telephony solutions with Teams Phone System
• Implement telephony scheduling, room collaboration, automation, and IVR
• Use SharePoint Online to manage content and extend it with analytics and dashboards

For IT Professionals and Consultants

• Your role: You have, or will have, responsibilities for deploying, migrating to, or managing some or all of a Microsoft 365 environment
• Prerequisites: For individuals at any stage of their cloud journey

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Preparing your environment for the cloud

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Jumping into the cloud

Chapter 2 Preparing your environment for the cloud

Chapter 3 Governance concepts

Chapter 4 Compliance Manager

Chapter 5 Secure Score

Chapter 6 Labels, retention, and eDiscovery

Chapter 7 Enterprise Mobility + Security

Chapter 8 Security features of Enterprise Mobility + Security

Chapter 9 Identity and authentication planning

Chapter 10 Installing AAD Connect

Chapter 11 Azure AD Cloud Sync

Chapter 12 Advanced Azure AD scenarios

Chapter 13 Azure Automation

Chapter 14 Exchange Online overview

Chapter 15 Exchange Online hybrid planning and deployment

Chapter 16 Migrating mailboxes to Exchange Online

Chapter 17 Migrating public folders to Exchange Online

Chapter 18 Managing Exchange Online

Chapter 19 Microsoft Teams overview

Chapter 20 Meetings, webinars, and live events

Chapter 21 Phone system planning

Chapter 22 Phone System configuration

Chapter 23 Phone System advanced features

Chapter 24 Managing Teams

Chapter 25 SharePoint Online

Chapter 26 SharePoint Online planning and deployment

Chapter 27 SharePoint Online Hybrid configuration

Chapter 28 Migrating data to SharePoint Online

Chapter 29 SharePoint Online management

Chapter 30 OneDrive for Business

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