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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

Understanding the rings in Office 365

Office 365 is composed of different rings. When the development team creates and updates new features, these features are first released to Ring 0, which is used by internal feature teams.

Then, when approved, they are promoted to Ring 1, which is used by the Office 365 team and so on, until they get to all customers Office 365 tenants in Ring 4.

You can always change the configuration of your tenant to target release and you will get the new features first rather than regular Office 365 tenants. By default, each tenant is set to standard release. Targeted release will get you new features first, but also not fully tested features, and you might incur small issues, so the decision of activating targeted release should be carefully taken. The following image shows the different rings in Office 365:

It is a best practice to have a separate...