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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

Chapter 2. Using PowerShell to Connect to Office 365 Services

PowerShell is an incredible tool that can make your work in Office 365 much more efficient by allowing you to automate repetitive tasks and skip past the often slow loading pages of the Office 365 administration portal.

Before you can start using PowerShell, however, you'll need to be familiar with the various modules, and how to connect to each one. Later, we'll show you how you can use PowerShell to administer various Office 365 services.

In this chapter, we'll explore:

  • Required software you'll need to download
  • Connecting to your Office 365 tenant
  • Connecting with predefined credentials
  • Connecting to Exchange Online
  • Connecting to SharePoint Online
  • Connecting to Skype for Business
  • Connecting to other services
  • Connecting to customer tenants using delegated access
  • Connecting to multiple services in a single session
  • Important security considerations