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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

Chapter 8. Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: ADFS

Now that we have learned about the preparation requirements for integration, let's start to build the initial foundation that will enable us to prepare for integrated use and a migration to Office 365. By now, we should have the necessary physical or virtual servers, firewall, and DNS ready or in place. We will now focus on building three core services, enabled by Office 365. These core services are:

  • Deploying Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

  • Office 365 Directory Synchronization

  • Exchange Hybrid

It's critical that we deploy these services in the order they are listed. If you choose to install these items out of order, some alternative configuration changes will be required and are not described. Currently they are listed in order, suggested by Microsoft best practices. In this chapter, we will focus on building ADFS with a Windows Internal Database (WID) as our database source (you may want to consider SQL for deployments requiring...