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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

Restricting OneDrive access to devices on specific IP address locations

Depending on your organization's industry and compliance requirements, it may be helpful to know how you can restrict OneDrive access to only those devices connecting from approved IP addresses. In this recipe, we'll specify the IP addresses from which we'll allow connections to OneDrive.

Getting ready

You must be a global or SharePoint administrator to access the OneDrive admin center.

How to do it…

  1. Go to the OneDrive admin center at https://admin.onedrive.com.
  2. Select Device access from the left-side navigation menu.
  3. Check the box for Allow access only from specific IP address locations.
  4. Enter the IP addresses, one per line, from which connected devices should be able to access OneDrive:

    Figure 6.17 – Allowed IP addresses configuration

  5. Click Save.

How it works…

Once you've saved the list of approved IP addresses, users will receive...