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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

Deploying Directory Synchronization


After both the ADFS internal and ADFS proxy servers are installed and configured, we need to start the installation of Directory Synchronization, before we can start testing whether ADFS was set up successfully. The following high-level steps will be performed when installing the Directory Synchronization server:

  • Confirming the preparation specifications

  • Enabling and downloading Directory Synchronization

  • Installing Directory Synchronization

  • Configuring Directory Synchronization

Confirming the preparation specifications

For this example, we are going to build the Directory Synchronization server with the following specifications:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

  • 4 GB of memory

  • Quad core 2 GHz

  • Active Directory joined

  • All of the latest Windows Updates applied

  • Computer Name—DIRSYNC (you will want to name this server based on your standard AD object naming scheme)

  • There is a 10,000 object limit for Directory Synchronization but this can be increased by opening a service request...