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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

Mail migration


Mail migration is a complicated topic that could support a small chapter by itself. There are four different types of migration into Exchange Online, as well as migration out of it.

A full discussion of migration is outside the scope of this book, because for the most part, by definition, it deals with areas outside of Office 365. We'll briefly touch on the types of migrations, and some of their prerequisites:

Migration to Exchange Online

Remote move migration

A remote move migration moves mail from an on-premises Exchange Server (2010 or higher) to Exchange Online. It can also be used in a hybrid deployment, to move mail between the on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online, in either direction. You'll need to enable the MRS Proxy on the on-premises Exchange Server. 

Mailboxes moved in this way are specified in migration batches. You will use a CSV file to identify the specific mailboxes to be moved.

Staged migration

Staged migration is only available to organizations planning to...