Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out, 2nd Edition

Conquer Microsoft Office 365 Administration–from the inside out!

Dive into Microsoft Office 365 Administration–and really put your Office 365 expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds–all you need to plan, implement, and operate Microsoft Office 365 in any environment. In this completely revamped Second Edition, a new author team thoroughly reviews the administration tools and capabilities available in the latest versions of Microsoft Office 365, and also adds extensive new coverage of Azure cloud services and SharePoint. Discover how experts tackle today’s essential tasks–and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.

•  Install, customize, and use Office 365’s portal, dashboard, and admin centers

•  Make optimal decisions about tenancy, licensing, infrastructure, and hybrid options

•  Prepare your environment for the cloud

•  Manage Office 365 identity and access via federation services, password and directory synchronization, authentication, and AAD Connect

•  Implement alerts and threat management in the Security & Compliance Center

•  Establish Office 365 data classifications, loss prevention plans, and governance

•  Prepare your on-premises environment to connect with Exchange Online

•  Manage resource types, billing and licensing, service health reporting, and support

•  Move mailboxes to Exchange Online via cutover, staged, and express migrations

•  Establish hybrid environments with the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard

•  Administer Exchange Online, from recipients and transport to malware filtering

•  Understand, plan, and deploy Skype for Business Online

Current Book Service
In addition, this book is part of the Current Book Service from Microsoft Press. Books in this program receive periodic updates to address significant software changes for 12 to 18 months following the original publication date via a free Web Edition. Learn more at https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/cbs.

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Table of Contents

PART I Planning, Preparing and Deploying Office 365

CHAPTER 1 Office 365 deployment milestones

CHAPTER 2 Preparing your environment for the cloud

PART II Office 365 Identity and Access

CHAPTER 3 Federation services and authentication

CHAPTER 4 Directory synchronization basics

CHAPTER 5 Installing Azure AD Connect

PART III Inside the Office 365 Admin Portal

CHAPTER 6 The Office 365 portal, dashboard, and admin centers

CHAPTER 7 Inside the Security & Compliance Center: Alerting, threat management, and reporting

CHAPTER 8 Inside the Security & Compliance Center: Data classifications, loss prevention, governance, and discovery

CHAPTER 9 Office 365 service health reporting and support

PART IV Exchange Online Configuration and Management

CHAPTER 10 Preparing an on-premises environment to connect to Exchange Online

CHAPTER 11 Understanding the Office 365 resource types

CHAPTER 12 Mailbox Migration Types

CHAPTER 13 Exchange Online hybrid

CHAPTER 14 Managing Exchange Online

PART V Skype for Business Online

CHAPTER 15 Skype for Business Online Concepts and Planning

CHAPTER 16 Deploying and administering Skype for Business Online

PART VI SharePoint Online

CHAPTER 17 SharePoint Online

CHAPTER 18 SharePoint Online Hybrid

CHAPTER 19 OneDrive for Business

CHAPTER 20 Yammer

Features

• Completely rewritten to reflect the latest features and best practices, by a new team of authors that has deployed Office 365 to hundreds of customers, with 15 million users worldwide
• Provides indispensable insights into pre-deployment planning, assessment of interdependencies, and infrastructure decision-making and planning
• Covers planning, identity/access, the portal dashboard and admin centers, billing and licensing, monitoring, Exchange Online, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, and more
• Includes extensive new coverage of Azure cloud services and SharePoint

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