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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By : David Greve, Ian Waters
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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By: David Greve, Ian Waters

Overview of this book

Organizations are migrating to the cloud to save money, become more efficient, and empower their users with the latest technology. Office 365 delivers all of this in a reliable, fast, and ever-expanding way, keeping you ahead of the competition. As the IT administrator of your network, you need to make the transition as painless as possible for your users. Learn everything you need to know and exactly what to do to ensure your Office 365 Exchange online migration is a success! This guide gives you everything you need to develop a successful migration plan to move from Exchange, Google, POP3, and IMAP systems to Office 365 with ease. We start by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. We then dive into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment. Later in the book, we look at migration options for Skype for Business and SharePoint to further help you leverage the latest collaborative working technologies within your organization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure – Exchange Hybrid

Preparing the end user for Office 365


There are two primary ways to deploy updates to the end users in preparation for Office 365. These two ways include:

  • End user self-deployment

  • Distribution from a software deployment service

End user self-deployment

This method consists of the end user navigating to the Office 365 portal and running the Office 365 desktop setup:

  1. To simplify the process, you can provide your users with the URL that takes them directly to the downloads page. This URL is https://portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx. The users will have to log on with their Active Directory account, since the portal will now be using AD FS for all user accounts that were synchronized to Office 365.

  2. Once the users are on this page, they will be able to see what is available for installation. If you have not altered the user's licenses, prior to navigating to this link, the portal will notify them that they do not yet have a license, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. If you plan to deploy the...