Book description
Leverage Office 365 to increase your organization's efficiency
About This Book- Perform common to advanced-level management and administrative tasks for your organization with Office 365
- Become an Office 365 generalist who can work with the entire stack—not just specific products
- An advanced-level guide that will teach you to implement enterprise-level services into your organization, no matter the size of the business
This book targets architects, sys admins, engineers, and administrators who are working with Office 365 and are responsible for configuring, implementing, and managing Office 365 in their organization. A prior knowledge of Office 365 and Exchange servers is mandatory.
What You Will Learn- Get an understanding of the vast Office 365 feature set
- Learn how workloads and applications interact and integrate with each other
- Connect PowerShell to various Office 365 services and perform tasks
- Learn to manage Skype for Business Online
- Get support and monitor Office 365 service health
- Manage and administer identities and groups efficiently
In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast.
The book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. Then this book covers common management tasks such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn topics such as managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to perform reporting and monitor Office 365 service health.
By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Style and approachA practical guide that offers a simple way to easily understand and access common administration tasks, without getting lost in the plethora of online resources, support pages, blog posts, and videos.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- The Office 365 Administration Portal
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Using PowerShell to Connect to Office 365 Services
- Software prerequisites
- Connecting to your Office 365 tenant
- Connecting to Exchange Online
- Connecting to SharePoint Online
- Connecting to Skype for Business
- Connecting to other services
- Connecting to customer tenants using delegated access
- Connecting to multiple services in a single session
- Important security tips
- Summary
-
Administering Azure Active Directory
- Interacting with Azure AD
- Managing Office 365 users
- Advanced topics
- Summary
- Administering Exchange Online – Essentials
- Administering Exchange – Advanced Topics
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Administering SharePoint Online
- General overview of SharePoint
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Administering via the SharePoint admin center
- Getting to the SharePoint admin center
- Managing the site collections
- The infopath option
- The user profiles option
- The sharing option
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The settings option
- The Show or Hide Options setting
- The Site Collection Storage Management setting
- The OneDrive for Business experience setting
- The SharePoint Lists and Libraries experience setting
- The Admin Center experience setting
- The Office Graph setting
- The Enterprise Social Collaboration setting
- The Streaming Video Service setting
- The Site Pages setting
- The Global Experience Version Settings setting
- The Information Rights Management (IRM) setting
- The Site Creation setting
- The Subsite Creation setting
- The Custom Script setting
- The Preview Features setting
- The Connected Services setting
- The Access apps setting
- The Mobile Push Notifications – OneDrive for Business setting
- The Mobile Push Notifications – SharePoint setting
- The Comment on Site Pages setting
- The access control option
- Administering via PowerShell
- Administering SharePoint Online via SharePoint
- Some words of wisdom
- Summary
-
Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams Administration
- An overview of Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups
- Things to keep in mind
- Administering Office 365 Groups via Office 365 Groups settings
- Creating a new Office 365 group
- Administering Teams via Office 365 admin center
- Administering via PowerShell
- PowerShell administration for Microsoft Teams
- Summary
- Understanding Security and Compliance
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Administering Skype for Business
- Configuring organization-wide settings 
- Audio conferencing
- Managing Skype for Business users 
- Online meetings 
- Managing voice services and calling plans 
- Call routing 
- Advanced telephony services 
- Summary 
- Administering Yammer
- Administering OneDrive for Business
- Power BI Administration
- Administering PowerApps, Flow, Stream, and Forms
- Usage Reporting
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Mastering Office 365 Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787288638
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