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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By : Nate Chamberlain
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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By: Nate Chamberlain

Overview of this book

Organizations across the world have switched to Office 365 to boost workplace productivity. However, to maximize investment in Office 365, you need to know how to efficiently administer Office 365 solutions. Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook is packed with recipes to guide you through common and not-so-common administrative tasks throughout Office 365. Whether you’re administering a single app such as SharePoint or organization-wide Security & Compliance across Office 365, this cookbook offers a variety of recipes that you’ll want to have to hand. The book begins by covering essential setup and administration tasks. You’ll learn how to manage permissions for users and user groups along with automating routine admin tasks using PowerShell. You’ll then progress through to managing core Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Azure Active Directory (AD). This book also features recipes that’ll help you to manage newer services such as Microsoft Search, Power Platform, and Microsoft Teams. In the final chapters, you’ll delve into monitoring, reporting, and securing your Office 365 services. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about managing individual Office 365 services along with monitoring, securing, and optimizing your entire Office 365 deployment efficiently.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Chapter 14: Appendix – Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses

Chapter 4: Managing Exchange Online

If your chosen subscription includes mail from Outlook, you'll be working with Exchange to configure the user experience and security of your mail environment. We'll cover the basics of getting started, as well as a few security features to decrease the likelihood of malicious content reaching your users via Exchange.

We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:

  • Creating a user mailbox
  • Creating a mail-enabled security group
  • Creating a shared mailbox without an O365 group
  • Creating a distribution list
  • Creating a dynamic distribution list
  • Assigning permissions and roles
  • Creating an Exchange-specific retention policy
  • Creating a mail flow rule
  • Configuring spam filter policies
  • Creating room and equipment resources
  • Enabling advanced threat protection (ATP) features