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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

Summary


Office 365 provides a nice set of basic and rich integration options for both Exchange and non-Exchange messaging systems. We learned about the base integration options to enable a simplified logon process for users, to an extended integration option, enabling rich coexistence for on-premises and online Exchange Organizations. These options should help you work through your planning process, bringing us to prepare for the deployment of these options.

Based on the integration options for professionals, small businesses, and enterprises, you have a decision to make on which path is the correct path for your organization. If you choose to leverage the professional or small business path, then the next chapter is a right fit for you. If you plan to leverage the enterprise path, you may want to skip ahead to Chapter 7, Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration.

In the next chapter, we will look at how to prepare for a simple migration. We will look at few of the migration options...