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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

An overview of Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups


Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams are both collaborative spaces, like SharePoint Online (SPO), but they are not highly configurable. You can add some connectors and apps to both applications but that is the extent of their configurability. This can be an advantage if you want to quickly set up a place to manage projects but don't want to devote, or don't have, the time to set up a full SharePoint site. When either Office 365 Groups or Microsoft Teams is set up, a SharePoint site is also set up automatically for a little bit of extra magic.

Teams and Groups seem to be very similar on the surface but Microsoft actually took a different approach with each when their respective technologies were developed.

Inside Office 365 Groups

Office 365 Groups is based on Exchange technology—the email distribution list, to be exact. When one is created, a distribution list is created as well as a place for Files, a Calendar, a Planner, and a OneNote...