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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 6. Administering SharePoint Online

SharePoint is a big part of Office 365. As one of the four pillars of Office 365, it is an exceptional tool for the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) space. It is also great for nonprofits. It is exceptional because it's so flexible. So many things can be built on one platform. It is one of the most popular tools for intranet, portals, online forms, dashboards, document management, project management, and workflow for the government and enterprise space. They have been using it for years and if you are in, or ever have worked in, one of these areas, you have more than likely used SharePoint even if you didn't know what it was.

In this chapter, we will be looking at administering SharePoint Online in two ways:

  • SharePoint admin center
  • SharePoint

This topic is super vast, so we are going to go over the most important things you should know about as well as a general overview. We are going to explore the following:

  • General overview of SharePoint
  • Administering...