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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

Hybrid Business Connectivity Services


Business Connectivity Services (BCS) allows us to publish data from our on-premises SharePoint environment into SharePoint Online using lists or SharePoint apps. One common use of this is to publish sales or performance data held in Excel sheets on-premises to sales employees that connect to SharePoint Online.

Sales people often work out of the office, visiting clients and travelling, so being able to edit sensitive information locally within your organisation and to share that data securely with remote users is an extremely powerful feature to utilize.

Configuring hybrid BCS is beyond the scope of this book but, it was well worth mentioning so you can investigate this feature further yourself. A good place to start is the Technet site Deploy a Business Connectivity Services hybrid solution in SharePoint found at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn197239.aspx.