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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.

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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
May, 2012 | 268 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Office 365 plans
Office 365 for Small Businesses and Professionals—considerations and limitations
Office 365 for Enterprises
When to use a plan and when to pick à la carte
Options to start your subscription
The sign-up process
Summary
2
Getting Familiar with the Office 365 Admin Portal
Getting Familiar with the Office 365 Admin Portal
Logging in for the first time and adding your domain
Navigating the Administration Overview interface
Exchange Online administration interface
Summary
3
Integration Options for Small Businesses and Professionals
Integration Options for Small Businesses and Professionals
Business scenarios
Working with a server
Managing user accounts
Working with PowerShell
Summary
4
Integration Options for Enterprises
Integration Options for Enterprises
Directory Synchronization
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Exchange Hybrid
Non-Exchange messaging systems
Summary
5
Preparing for a Simple Migration
Preparing for a Simple Migration
A simple migration
Migration options
The migration process—in a nutshell
Planning for migration
Preparing your environment for migration
Summary
6
Performing a Simple Migration
Performing a Simple Migration
Migration from non-Exchange Server systems
Migrating from Exchange Server
Summary
7
Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration
Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration
Preparing your Office 365 subscription
Active Directory preparation and readiness check
Basic infrastructure preparation
Defining the migration process
Summary
8
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: ADFS
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: ADFS
Deploying Active Directory Federation Services
Summary
9
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Directory Synchronization
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Directory Synchronization
Deploying Directory Synchronization
Summary
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Deploying Exchange Hybrid
Summary
11
Performing a Hybrid Migration
Performing a Hybrid Migration
Preparing the end user for Office 365
Performing a migration from the Exchange Management Console
Performing a migration using PowerShell cmdlets
Summary
12
Post Migration Considerations
Post Migration Considerations
On-premise resource changes
Changing your MX record in a Hybrid configuration
Summary
References
References
Office 365
Exchange
Third-party tools or add-ons
Author's blogs
Index
Index

Preparing the end user for Office 365

There are two primary ways to deploy updates to the end users, in preparation for Office 365. Those two ways include:

  • End user self-deployment

  • Distribution from a software deployment service

End user self-deployment

In the end user self-deployment method, the end user navigates to the Office 365 portal and runs the Office 365 Desktop Setup:

  1. To simplify the process, you would provide your users with the URL (https://portal.microsoftonline.com/download) that takes them directly to the Downloads page. The user will have to log on with their Active Directory account, as the Portal will now be using ADFS for all user accounts that were synchronized to Office 365. Please note that local admin privileges will be required to run the desktop setup.

  2. Once the users enter this page, they will be able to see what is available for installation. If you have not altered the user's licenses, prior to the user navigating to this link, the user will see only the Office 365 setup...

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