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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
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Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure – Exchange Hybrid

Preparing your Office 365 subscription


As you prepare for integration with Office 365, one of the first and most important steps is to ensure you have registered all your User Principal Names (UPNs) and e-mail domains you plan to use with the service. This also includes any e-mail domains you plan to coexist with but will leave on-premises. Let's recap on why both UPNs and e-mail domains are important to register.

A UPN is an individual's log on to Active Directory. In many cases, you are likely to use domain\%username% as the user log on. We need to change this to their UPN, which is also likely %username%@domain (in some cases it may be domain.local or a public domain.com). We need to ensure your UPN is a public domain. Ideally, we should have the public domain match the user's primary e-mail address.

E-mail domains are also important to register within Office 365. First off, you cannot assign a primary or secondary e-mail address to a mailbox if the e-mail domain is not registered with...