Chapter 2. Planning and Preparing to Deploy Office 365

Approach to planning and evaluating Office 365

Office 365 planning, deployment, and troubleshooting tools

Office 365 Service Descriptions

Office 365 Deployment Guide

Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Toolkit

Network planning and analysis

Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit

Windows PowerShell

EVEN though Office 365 is designed to be an easy way to deploy collaboration technologies such as SharePoint, Lync, Exchange, and Office, planning and preparation are required for enterprise customers who want to leverage existing on-premises infrastructure, such as Active Directory (AD) identity management.

In this chapter, we start with ...

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