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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

Connecting to multiple services in a single session


If you have been paying close attention through the various subcomponents of Office 365, you may have observed that there is absolutely nothing that prevents us from connecting to all these services at the same time. This is useful, for example, if you need to make a change to mailboxes in Exchange Online based on information found in the Office 365 user's account, or if you want to add items to a SharePoint list based on the contents of a user's Outlook calendar. The possibilities are limitless.

Take exceptional care in circumstances where you need to connect to different services using different credentials, such as when copying data between two Office 365 tenants. Similarly, when you close one session and open another, you may need special code to handle the contingency of overriding commands that already exist due to a temporary PowerShell module created by a remote session. This is typically handled using the -NoClobber parameter, but...