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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted communications and collaboration products in a single desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Exchange Online gives you access to enterprise class email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices."Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" is a practical hands-on tutorial that shows small businesses to enterprises how to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. This book also places an emphasis on setting up a Hybrid and migrating from Exchange on-premise to Exchange Online. "Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" will show small businesses to enterprises the steps to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. The book starts by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. The book then dives into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment and migration amongst others.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Index

Logging in for the first time and adding your domain


To get to the administration interface, you will need to browse to https://portal.microsoftonline.com and log in with the credentials you chose during the sign-up process in Chapter 1, Getting Started:

The first step of utilizing Office 365 for your business requires that you add your domain (for example, yourcompany.com) in the portal. This is a necessary place to start as your domain will be used later in many aspects of the Admin Portal. To add your domain to Office 365, click on the Domains menu option on the left (see the following screenshot):

You will see that the tenant domain already exists (for example, yourcompany.onmicrosoft.com) in the listing. This domain cannot be removed, however after completing the next few steps, your Office 365 subscription will be set up in a way that the tenant domain will not be seen by your users.

Tip

DNS requirements

Office 365 requires two key types of DNS records that are not supported by various...