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Mastering Office 365 Administration

By : Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
Book Image

Mastering Office 365 Administration

By: Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers

Overview of this book

In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud in order to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. It then goes on to cover common management tasks, such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn about topics including managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to carry out reporting and monitor Office 365 service health. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
10
Administering Yammer
Index

OneDrive dashboard


You don't have a OneDrive dashboard yet! The OneDrive admin center is brand new; Microsoft hasn't quite finished building it yet:

OneDrive admin center

Now, Microsoft moves very quickly sometimes; it might be that by the time you have this book in your hands, the reports and many other features they're promising will have been built, and you'll see something much more interesting than a stock picture of a pie chart. 

What you actually need to pay attention to is the left-side navigation bar. The various functions you can perform in the OneDrive admin center are:

  • Sharing
  • Sync
  • Storage
  • Device access
  • Compliance
  • Notifications

Let's go through each one in turn and see what we can do here.

Sharing

One of the main purposes of OneDrive, aside from keeping all of a user's documents in a location where they can reach them no matter what machine they're accessing them from, is to share documents with other members of an organization or outside parties such as clients, vendors, and partners. Sometimes...