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Office 365 Essentials

By : Nuno Arias Silva
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Office 365 Essentials

By: Nuno Arias Silva

Overview of this book

Office 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and services
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
14
Monitoring and Support

Architecture

Regarding the architecture of Skype for Business Online, there are three models:

  • Cloud only
  • Skype for Business on-premises
  • Skype for Business hybrid

Cloud only

The cloud-only model is used as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Microsoft has your identity and manages the Skype for Business infrastructure. You can also have some add-ons, such as Microsoft's cloud-hosted Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calling service:

In cloud-only scenarios, organizations use the Skype for Business service only on the Microsoft infrastructure.

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