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

By : David Greve, Ian Waters
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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

Overview of a SharePoint hybrid


The popularity of SharePoint is growing all the time, increasing our user's efficiency and allowing businesses to grow rapidly. Configuring a SharePoint hybrid allows us to build on our existing implementation and expand out to the cloud. However, there are still a lot of improvements Microsoft could make and new features they could implement to make it a smoother and richer experience. You may find that after reading this chapter you will need to engage with and investigate third-party services, depending on what you need to achieve.

You may be surprised by what you do and don't get with a hybrid configuration. You may find it's actually not the best way forward, but there are lots of benefits you can leverage to make the transition to SharePoint Online a smoother experience. So what do we actually get?

  • Hybrid search: Allows the users to search both the on-premises SharePoint farm and SharePoint Online, giving them easy access to files regardless of their location...