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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

Navigating the administration overview interface


In this section of the chapter, we will take you through the high level administrative interface for Office 365. The interface is broken down into several sections:

  • Home

  • Users

  • Groups

  • Resources

  • Billing

  • Support

  • Settings

  • Health

  • Admin centers

Home

The Home section assists you with beginning your journey with Office 365 and gives a quick access to common administrative tasks, such as adding users, managing billing, giving an overview of service health, and displaying any new messages regarding new features and changes.

In this section, you will find other general information about how to get started with your Office 365 subscription as well as links to more information. We will cover most of this information through the rest of this book as it relates to migration and Exchange Online.

The following screenshot shows the Home screen with all its menus in the left panel and quick links in the center:

Users

The Users page of the management interface allows you...