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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

Organization


This section is a bit of a catch-all; these are settings that apply to your entire organization, and don't easily fit in anywhere else.

Sharing

Sharing settings control the sharing of Exchange information (specifically, calendar information such as free/busy, and more detailed information about appointments) with people in other domains:

Sharing settings

You can create a relationship between your organization and another one that will apply to either all of your users, or a specific security group:

New organization relationship

You can enable the sharing of free/busy information with the time only, or with the subject and location, as well. Limit sharing to a specific security group, or apply it to everyone in your organization.

You can also turn on individual sharing, where individuals have the right to choose to share free/busy information with external organizations as they wish:

Default sharing policy

You have a default sharing policy with Office 365, with the options Anonymous and...