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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

Active Directory Federation Services


With Office 365, Microsoft offers a single account sign-on experience, or Single Sign-On. Microsoft leverages Active Directory Federation Service 2.0, 2.1, or 3.0+ (AD FS) to provide this single sign-on experience. AD FS is not the only SSO solution that works with Office 365. There are many other supported solutions, but those solutions typically come at an additional cost. It's important that you evaluate your future use of SSO to determine whether AD FS or another SSO solution is the right fit for your organization.

AD FS enables organizations to connect their existing AD forest to Microsoft's federation infrastructure, creating a secure trust relationship with Microsoft. Once your organization is connected to this service, you can then allow your users to log on to the Office 365 services you provide, with their Active Directory credentials. There are many benefits to organizations providing this type of access. These benefits include:

  • Simplified logon...