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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

Defining PowerApps, Flow, Stream, and Forms


Firstly, because they're so new, let's briefly address what these products are and what they do, how to tell if you have them, and what you can do to get them if you don't.

PowerApps

PowerApps is a product that can be obtained as part of Office 365, as part of Dynamics 365, or as a standalone product. It allows users to quickly and easily create business applications that link multiple products together—including Microsoft products and products from outside providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Slack, and so forth—and then publish those apps to the web and to mobile.

The licensing is somewhat arcane, as one might expect, given how many different ways there are to get the product. There's an impact on the capabilities of the users and the administrators that are affected by licensing considerations. Many of the connectors that allow the user to work with outside providers require the more expensive PowerApps Plan 1 or Plan 2. For instance, you can only...