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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

Chapter 7.  Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration

By now, you should have a relatively defined plan on what integration services you plan to leverage from Microsoft Office 365, along with how you plan to scale out these services. Our next objective is to start preparing our environment for the integration services. In this chapter, we will focus on working through the various core services available to Office 365 and their integration requirements for your environment. We will assume you have an existing Exchange Organization within your environment, consisting of Exchange 2013, or you are planning to add Exchange 2013 for this effort. To prepare, we will focus on the following areas:

  • Preparing your Office 365 subscription

  • Active Directory preparation and readiness check

  • Basic infrastructure preparation

  • Defining the migration process

  • Bandwidth requirements