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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

Some words of wisdom


There is so much more that we can dig into here, but alas, if we did, this book would be horribly long! We will leave you here with a few words of wisdom from hard-learned lessons, so take heed:

  • Remember Keep It Simple SharePoint (K.I.S.S.) admin. When managing permissions, we highly recommend keeping your permission structure as simple and as flat as possible.
  • Notate and update. Notate (and keep updated) your permissions structure somewhere, preferably in a SharePoint admin or developer site or list, with permission such that only the other admins and/or developers can access and update it. Creating this type of site would be great for other things, such as keeping versions of your InfoPath form, code, design documents, and other stuff that will help you (and those that follow you and work with you) in the know. You can save your permissions structure as a spreadsheet, but using a SharePoint list would be even better.
  • Permissions everywhere is not good. Although you can...