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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

Recipients


Recipients is the most important part of Exchange, and you will probably spend much of your time in exchange online working with the functions here. However, these areas also have a great deal of overlap with the Administration Portal (covered in Chapter 1, The Office 365 Administration Portal), as Microsoft have made it simpler to administer the functions of Recipients from the main portal that most administrators will access.

Mailboxes

Mailboxes are the heart of Exchange, the main purpose behind the whole thing. In a moderately large company with a normal amount of turnover, you'll probably spend more time administering mailboxes than any other part of Exchange, unless there are legal reasons why you need to spend a great deal of time on compliance and regulatory features. 

Let's take a closer look at the functions of the Mailbox page.

When you select a user in the Mailbox window, a user mailbox panel opens to the right with a summary of the user's information and quick links to...