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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

Security score card


Perhaps one of Microsoft's best kept secrets in terms of security tools is the Security score application. Although it was originally announced via the Security & Compliance dashboard, this platform isn't even listed under the current iteration of the site.

Note

To access Security Score, visit https://securescore.office.com/.

Recent news indicates that Microsoft has renamed the Office 365 Security score to Microsoft SecurityScore, which is perhaps an indication that it will be rolled into Enterprise Mobility and Security (and thus Microsoft 365, formerly Secure Productive Enterprise). Therefore, we can't promise you that your E3 or E5 license will always guarantee access to it.

Regardless, we're going to highlight SecurityScore anyway. It is an extremely useful and visually compelling way to improve your Office 365 security practices, whether or not you have specific compliance requirements. Even if you only rarely use the other tools in the Security & Compliance...