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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 3. Administering Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory serves as the backend storage for identities, groups, permissions, and licenses in Office 365. In the previous chapter, we covered how to connect to all the Office 365 services including Azure Active Directory (AD). In this chapter, we'll start putting those skills to work, learning tasks such as:

  • Choosing the best way to manage users for a given situation
  • Provisioning new accounts and assigning licenses to users
  • Resetting user passwords and changing other user settings
  • Offboarding users and freeing up licenses without losing data
  • Adding and configuring DNS domains
  • Managing Office 365 licenses
  • Managing administrative roles (permissions)
  • Connecting Azure AD to Windows AD

Many of these topics were covered in Chapter 1, The Office 365 Administration Portal. Here, at the risk of repeating ourselves, we're taking a slightly different perspective, focusing on how administrators manage users throughout the life cycle of the organization...