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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

Connecting to your Office 365 tenant


You may already be familiar with how Microsoft uses the term tenant. For those who are new to Office 365, understand that a tenant refers to a set of Office 365 services that are isolated to a single customer. In layman's terms, this a is subscription. However, a tenant can have multiple subscriptions associated with it, for the various plans in Office 365 or Windows Azure. In fact, a single customer may choose to have more than one tenant, such as a development tenant and a production tenant.

Assuming you are the global administrator for your tenant, PowerShell will connect you to the correct tenant based on the provided username and password. This is possible because DNS suffixes used in usernames must be unique to a single tenant; they can't be used for more than one tenant at a time.

Let's connect to our tenant. We start this process by launching the Azure Active Directory module for PowerShell.

Type the following command and hit Enter:

# Import-Module...