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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

Basic infrastructure preparation


To simplify our approach, let's start with a basic source Exchange 2013 environment. The following is a diagram of the scope of the requirements:

Let's focus on the necessary requirements for the following components:

  • Directory Synchronization server

  • Active Directory Federation services

  • Exchange Hybrid server

Directory Synchronization server

Only one Directory Synchronization server can be actively used within a single Office 365 subscription. The following are the base requirements for this server:

  • 64-bit deployment

    • Windows Server 2008 SP1+,Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1+, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2012 R2

  • AD domain joined within the forest that you plan to synchronize with Office 365

  • Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 installed

  • Windows PowerShell version 3.0 or later installed

  • 6 GHz+ processor

  • 4 GB RAM (16 GB for 50-100 K objects and 32 GB for 100 K+ objects)

  • 100 MB or 1 GB Nic

  • 100 GB+ free disk space, for an object count fewer than 100K (if you...