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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

Administering Office 365 Groups via Office 365 Groups settings


To get to the part of the admin center where the Office 365 Groups controls are, go to Office 365 Admin Center | Settings | Services & add-ins. Scroll down the page and click on Office 365 Groups, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

You must be a global admin to manage these settings.

Once you click on the Office 365 Groups service, you will see the options available for external users, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you turn on Let group members outside the organization access group content, external people can be added to your Office 365 Groups. If this setting is turned on by itself, it means that anyone in your organization can add external users as guests to a group. If you want to limit this ability to only group owners, you need to enable the second setting.

Note

External users may be given access to the SharePoint sites created when a group is created, unless external users are removed in the SharePoint...