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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By : David Greve, Ian Waters
Book Image

Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By: David Greve, Ian Waters

Overview of this book

Organizations are migrating to the cloud to save money, become more efficient, and empower their users with the latest technology. Office 365 delivers all of this in a reliable, fast, and ever-expanding way, keeping you ahead of the competition. As the IT administrator of your network, you need to make the transition as painless as possible for your users. Learn everything you need to know and exactly what to do to ensure your Office 365 Exchange online migration is a success! This guide gives you everything you need to develop a successful migration plan to move from Exchange, Google, POP3, and IMAP systems to Office 365 with ease. We start by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. We then dive into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment. Later in the book, we look at migration options for Skype for Business and SharePoint to further help you leverage the latest collaborative working technologies within your organization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure – Exchange Hybrid

Configuring a Skype for Business hybrid


Enabling a hybrid deployment is a relatively straightforward process and if your organisation has is already using or planning an Exchange hybrid, then some of the requirements will likely be already in place, such as Directory Synchronization and AD FS for the best user experience. Let's take a look at the SFB-specific configuration steps:

  • Check firewall access rules and open ports

  • Check required DNS records

  • Configure on-premises SFB servers

  • Configure Skype for Business Online within Office 365

  • Move users from on-premises to cloud

  • Move users from cloud to on-premises

In our lab environment we will be using Lync Server on-premises but all the PowerShell scripts presented here will work if you are using Skype for Business server in your on-premises network.

Firewall ports

To enable a hybrid deployment, we only have to open one more additional port 5061 to the access edge external IP address. This enables federation communication with SFB Online.

You should already...