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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

Azure AD – user management

Azure AD was the first service made available on Azure, and it is the authority service for user management in Microsoft Office 365. It is a core service, built on a global infrastructure, meant to provide a base identity management system to each organization.

What is identity management? It is a foundational system for any environment, which maintains the identity of each user object in a central location and controls access to other users, resources, and objects of that environment.

Identity management has two components—authentication and authorization, as shown in the following figure:

As shown in the following figure, your organization may want to connect its on-premises AD with Office 365:

What is Microsoft Azure AD?

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