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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

Overview of a Skype for Business hybrid


A hybrid configuration between on-premises Lync Server 2010, 2013, or Skype for Business server 2015 to Office 365 gives you the ability to move users from your local pools into the cloud with a single PowerShell command and then back again with another. This simple act opens up a multitude of possibilities we can use to expand our networks and give our organisations the edge over the competition. Let's take a closer look at a few of these benefits in more detail.

Benefits

Configuring a Skype for Business hybrid gives us greater flexibility and opens up more options so we can expand our networks and empower our users to work more efficiently and increase collaboration between our users and partners.

Let's look at a few of the benefits we can expect from deploying a basic hybrid configuration:

  • Reduce or maintain existing connectivity requirements: By hosting our user accounts in the cloud, we no longer need to provide VPN connectivity between sites or deploy...