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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

Business scenarios


Organizations around the world come in a variety of shapes and sizes. As Office 365 for Small Businesses and Professionals is limited to 50 users and does not support Directory Synchronization, customers are limited in what choices they can make to integrate with on-premise solutions.

For many small businesses that are looking to move to Office 365 they may be doing so for a variety of reasons.

Ageing server

IT is generally relegated to business support and rarely seen as a revenue generator, with small businesses holding on to their servers as long as possible. As such they are usually reluctant to spend a portion of their capital to fund another depreciating asset. For this reason, Office 365 becomes an attractive option as there is no capital outlay to start using the service.

Remote workforce

With the ready availability of mobile broadband and the decreasing cost of portable devices such as laptops and tablets, many organizations are finding that their staff are spending...