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Office 365 Essentials

By : Nuno Arias Silva
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Office 365 Essentials

By: Nuno Arias Silva

Overview of this book

Office 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and services
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Monitoring and Support

Microsoft Exchange Online

Microsoft Exchange Online is the email service provided by Microsoft. At the time of writing, the most current version is Exchange 2016. This version was designed with Office 365 in mind, specifically to support multiple tenants in each Exchange organization, with the required logical separation and security controls in place.

The main function of Exchange is to provide a robust and secure email platform that can be used to communicate, make appointments, manage tasks, and organize emails in inboxes.

Exchange server is an enterprise class server that was first launched in 1996 and is currently the most widely-used email system in organizations. It provides a rich set of features such as:

  • Routing and transport rules
  • Encrypted and secure mail
  • In-place hold that allows you to retain emails forever
  • eDiscovery features to search for specific content throughout...