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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

Non-Exchange messaging systems


Believe it or not, not everyone has a Microsoft Exchange messaging system within their environment. Although we are not focusing on non-Exchange messaging systems, it's still an important topic when working towards an understanding of how to integrate with Office 365. The key items of focus for non-Exchange messaging systems are:

  • Active Directory readiness

  • Coexistence options

  • Migrating from a non-Exchange messaging system

Active Directory readiness

If you are managing a non-Exchange system, then you already know that your Active Directory environment may not match your existing messaging environment. As an example, if you have Gmail, Lotus Notes, or a GroupWise environment, these environments do not depend on Active Directory for authentication. Because of this, it's likely that your messaging users may not be an exact match to your Active Directory users. In fact, even if they are a match, the attributes may not look the same. When you plan to migrate a non-Exchange...