Conquer Microsoft 365 administration, from the inside out!
Dive into Microsoft 365 administration and harness the full power of cloud scaling, automation, and availability in Microsoft 365! This supremely well-organized reference packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, tips, and workarounds; all you need to continually enhance organizational agility, productivity, and security. Three Microsoft insiders help you fully leverage Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), Azure AD, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and more. Discover how experts tackle today's key tasks and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.
Plan deployment, understand downstream impacts, and avoid pitfalls
Prepare your environment, establish governance, and enforce compliance
Assess and improve security posture with Microsoft 365 Secure Score
Move to identity-based security with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
Plan identity types, authentication, identity federation, and AAD Connect deployment
Replace costly premises infrastructure with cloud-based Azure synchronization
Manage complex Azure AD scenarios such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
Automate Azure to improve consistency, security, and standardization
Prepare for Exchange Online cloud-only deployments, hybrid coexistence, and migration
Move mailboxes and public folders to Exchange Online
Understand Microsoft Teams concepts, architecture, and user interface
Support meetings, webinars, and live events
Deliver full-featured telephony solutions with Teams Phone System
Implement telephony scheduling, room collaboration, automation, and IVR
Use SharePoint Online to manage content and extend it with analytics and dashboards
For IT Professionals and Consultants
Your role: You have, or will have, responsibilities for deploying, migrating to, or managing some or all of a Microsoft 365 environment
Prerequisites: For individuals at any stage of their cloud journey
Author(s): Aaron Guilmette; Darryl Kegg; Ed Fisher
Edition: 3
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 992
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dedications
Contents at a Glance
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Introduction
Who this book is for
Conventions
Acknowledgments
Errata, updates, & book support
Stay in touch
Chapter 1. Jumping into the cloud
Getting started
Picking a tenant name
Delegating access to your tenant
Should I deploy in hybrid mode?
Is your Exchange environment ready?
Is your directory ready?
Are your users ready?
What’s next?
Chapter 2. Preparing your environment for the cloud
Setting up your subscription
Assigning administrators
Configuring DNS, firewalls, and proxy servers
Preparing your directories
Updating and deploying client software
Synchronizing your users
Licensing your users
What’s next?
Chapter 3. Governance concepts
Identity and access management concepts
Governance for core workloads and features
Governance controls
What’s next?
Chapter 4. Compliance Manager
Your organization’s compliance score
Assigning permissions
Conducting an assessment
Updating improvement actions
Working with alerts
What’s next?
Chapter 5. Secure Score
Overview
Assessing your security posture
Prioritizing improvements in your security posture
Reporting on your security posture
What’s next?
Chapter 6. Labels, retention, and eDiscovery
Data governance concepts
Data governance scenarios
Records search
What’s next?
Chapter 7. Enterprise Mobility + Security
Overview
Identity and access management
Endpoint management
Information protection
Identity-driven security
What’s next?
Chapter 8. Security features of Enterprise Mobility + Security
Securing identity
Securing devices
What’s next?
Chapter 9. Identity and authentication planning
Identity types
User authentication
Identity federation
What’s next?
Chapter 10. Installing AAD Connect
The Custom and Express installation experiences
Selecting your authentication method
Connecting to your directories
The UserPrincipalName and SourceAnchor attributes
Uniquely identifying your users
Filter users and devices
Finalizing the installation
What’s next?
Chapter 11. Azure AD Cloud Sync
Azure AD Cloud Sync
Installing Azure AD Cloud Sync
Configuring Azure AD Cloud Sync
What’s next?
Chapter 12. Advanced Azure AD scenarios
Migrations and the SourceAnchor
Performing migrations
Additional Azure AD Connect considerations
Password Writeback
Precedence
What’s next?
Chapter 13. Azure Automation
Azure Automation concepts
Configuring authentication
Creating a PowerShell runbook
What’s next?
Chapter 14. Exchange Online overview
Exchange Online deployment concepts
Exchange and Active Directory on-premises environment
Recipients
Groups
Mail routing
Networking
Additional tools
What’s next?
Chapter 15. Exchange Online hybrid planning and deployment
Overview of Exchange Online hybrid features
Planning
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard
Mailbox provisioning
Decommissioning the hybrid environment
What’s next?
Chapter 16. Migrating mailboxes to Exchange Online
Migration endpoints
Migration batches
Troubleshooting
What’s next?
Chapter 17. Migrating public folders to Exchange Online
Exchange Online prerequisites
Configuring hybrid public folders
Public folder migration
Post-migration configuration
Troubleshooting
What’s next?
Chapter 18. Managing Exchange Online
Exchange admin center
Recipient management
Transport
Spam, phish, and malware filtering
Organization management
Hybrid management
What’s next?
Chapter 19. Microsoft Teams overview
Architecture
Architecture deep dive
User interface
What’s next?
Chapter 20. Meetings, webinars, and live events
Meetings
Webinars
Live events
What’s next?
Chapter 21. Phone system planning
Overview of Teams Phone concepts
Choosing an architecture
Planning network requirements
Best practices and additional network tools
What’s next?
Chapter 22. Phone System configuration
Prerequisites
Emergency dialing
Phone numbers
Teams voice policies
What’s next?
Chapter 23. Phone System advanced features
Resource accounts
Holidays
Call queues
Auto attendants
What’s next?
Chapter 24. Managing Teams
Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams component architecture
Collaboration management
Troubleshooting
What’s next?
Chapter 25. SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online concepts
SharePoint Online capacities
SharePoint Online features
SharePoint Online hybrid
What’s next?
Chapter 26. SharePoint Online planning and deployment
Planning a modern site architecture
Designing site collection structure
Planning and configuring site and guest access
What’s next?
Chapter 27. SharePoint Online Hybrid configuration
Planning
Configuration
What’s next?
Chapter 28. Migrating data to SharePoint Online
Inventorying data sources and mapping destinations
Choosing the migration tools
Planning for requirements and prerequisites
Scanning content
Resolving blocking issues
Planning for content that cannot be migrated
Migrating data with SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT)
What’s next?
Chapter 29. SharePoint Online management
Sites
Policies
Settings
Content services
Migration
Reports
Advanced
More Features
What’s next?
Chapter 30. OneDrive for Business
Accessing OneDrive for Business
Collaborating with OneDrive for Business
Deploying OneDrive for Business to your users
Troubleshooting
Index
Code Snippets
