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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


In this chapter, we learned how to build the first core integration point for AD FS to support authentication services with Office 365. We installed an internal AD FS server and configured a proxy server with the remote access role, and then configured the web application proxy service to improve security. Users can now authenticate to your on-premises network to gain access to the Office 365 portal and services. As your user base grows, you can build out your AD FS farm to improve redundancy and performance as required, by adding additional internal AD FS servers.

We now have our Office 365 tenant configured for single sign-on, improving the users' sign on experience. In our next chapter, we will focus on the build out of Directory Synchronization using Azure Active Directory Connect (Azure AD Connect). Azure AD Connect is a critical component to the AD FS authentication. Directory Synchronization allows us to leverage the AD FS deployment by synchronizing and informing the service...