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Mastering Office 365 Administration

By : Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
Book Image

Mastering Office 365 Administration

By: Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers

Overview of this book

In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud in order to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. It then goes on to cover common management tasks, such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn about topics including managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to carry out reporting and monitor Office 365 service health. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
10
Administering Yammer
Index

Chapter 4. Administering Exchange Online – Essentials

There are many different roads that you may have traveled in order to get to the point where you are now, administering Exchange Online for your organization:

  • Some will be experienced Exchange 2013 or 2016 administrators who are used to this interface, as it's very similar to the EAC for on-premise products. For you, we apologize; most of what you'll see in this chapter will be old hat for you, but we'll do our best to call out any differences you need to be aware of.
  • Some will be experienced Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 administrators who've never used on-premise 2013 or 2016. There have been a lot of changes, but there will still be a good bit here that you're already familiar with.
  • Some will have never administered any form of Exchange. This chapter is written to ensure that you know everything you need to do your job successfully.

Administering Exchange Online can be done in multiple ways. Many functions of Exchange Online can be handled...