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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

Basic infrastructure preparation


To simplify our approach, let's start with a basic source Exchange 2010 environment. A diagram showing the scope of the requirements is as follows:

Let's focus on the necessary requirements for the following components:

  • Directory Synchronization server

  • Active Directory Federation Services

  • Exchange Hybrid server

Directory Synchronization server

Only one Directory Synchronization server can be actively used within a single Office 365 subscription. The following are the base requirements for this server:

  • 32-bit deployment—Windows Server 2003 SP2 or Windows Server 2008

  • 64-bit deployment—Windows Server 2008 Standard or Windows Server 2008 R2

  • AD domain joined within the forest that you plan to synchronize with Office 365

  • Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.x installed

  • Windows PowerShell 1.0 installed

  • 1.6 GHz+ processor

  • 4 GB RAM (16 GB for 50 to 100 K objects and 32 GB for 100 K+ objects)

  • 100 MB or 1 GB NIC

  • 100 GB+ free disk space for an object count less than 100 K (if you plan...