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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

Monitoring

To monitor a cloud service such as Office 365, you need to know what technologies it's using and what workloads you're using in your solution.

To best accomplish the monitoring of your Office 365 solution, you will need to collect all the information about what workloads you are currently using, the environment technologies, architecture, and so on.

First, you need to make an inventory of your current environment, for example:

  • Azure AD Connect
  • Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
  • Exchange hybrid
  • SharePoint hybrid
  • Skype for Business hybrid
  • Office 365
  • Any other services

In the case that you need to improve your monitoring solution beyond what is available out of the box, you may need to use third-party software to best monitor your Office 365 solution.

Microsoft also has other products that you can use to improve your monitoring solutions, for example...