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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

Active Directory preparation and readiness check


Our next focus is to ensure Active Directory (AD) is ready for Office 365. The purpose of this section is to check your readiness to synchronize AD with Office 365, leverage ADFS, and enable Exchange Federation.

To easily identify the necessary changes, run the Microsoft Office 365 Readiness Tool (http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/183/p/2285/8155.aspx#8155). By running this tool, we will uncover the key changes that may be necessary to leverage the service. Once you run this tool, you will be able to identify the potential issues or changes required for:

  • E-mail domains

  • Forest/domain structure and Exchange schema

  • Active Directory users, contacts, and group objects and single sign-on

  • Desktop readiness

E-mail domains

As mentioned in the Preparing your Office 365 subscription section, be sure to add all your e-mail domains to the Office 365 Admin portal. This tool will highlight all e-mail domains discovered from users within your messaging system...