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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

Permissions


Permissions to Security & Compliance are handled through role-based access control (RBAC). If you're used to having your way around Office 365 because you're the global administrator, you may find this very annoying. Exchange admins will be familiar with RBAC because it plays a large role in mailbox permissions, especially if you've ever needed to migrate from an on-premises Exchange server to Office 365. Likewise, those who have experimented with eDiscovery, identity and access protection, or privileged identity management will find the roles for Security & Compliance are largely the same.

There are eight key roles used in Security & Compliance. Of course, Microsoft provides detailed descriptions of these. We'll sum them up more concisely, proceeding in the order that (arbitrarily) made the most sense to us:

  • Default roles:
    • Organization Management: This automatically includes global administrators. It can control Security & Compliance center permissions and also...