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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

Active Directory preparation and readiness check


Our next focus is to ensure Active Directory (AD) is ready for Office 365. The purpose of this section is your readiness to synchronize AD with Office 365, leverage AD FS, and enable Exchange Federation.

To easily identify the necessary changes, run the Office 365 health, readiness, and connectivity checks tool at https://portal.office.com/tools. Be sure to run this tool from a Windows-based workstation, while connected to the same Active Directory forest and Exchange Organization that you will be connecting to Office 365.

Launch the tool and select both the Quick and Advanced check boxes, and then click on Next to run the checks as shown in the following screenshot. Also, you may have to install some desktop components for Office 365. These components may include the Azure Active Directory Sign-in Assistant and the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell:

By running this tool, we will uncover key changes that may be necessary...