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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to connect to your Office 365 tenant interactively and with predefined credentials. We demonstrated how to set the tenant ID for connecting to customer tenants with delegated access. We also showed you how to use remote PowerShell sessions for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business, and other services, and how to connect to more than one service in a single session. We also discussed important security considerations that affect how you use PowerShell to manage Office 365.

In the next chapter, we will cover the administration and management of Office 365 user identities and groups.