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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

Stream


Administering Stream is unusual. You don't do it through the administration portal; you do it by clicking on your own profile in the Stream portal.

Go to Stream in your list of Office 365 apps:

The Stream portal

Click on the top-right corner, where your own name is, and you'll get a drop-down menu consisting of your name, Stream settings, Admin settings, and Sign out. You will need to be a global administrator on your tenant to have the rights to do this, unless someone else has made you a Stream administrator.

There are two sections to Stream administration: Manage streams and Manage users.

Manage streams

This is where most of your capabilities as an administrator are.

Administrators

On the first screen, you can assign administrators. Any user on this list, and any user who is a global administrator of the tenant, has the right to enter the administration portal for Stream:

Stream admin settings: Administrators

Spotlight videos

Spotlight videos will appear in the Stream portal for your company...