Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

by Aaron Guilmette, Darryl Kegg, Ed Fisher
Released January 2023
Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
ISBN: 9780137909056

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Book description

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 todays 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

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  5. Dedications
  6. Contents at a Glance
  7. Table of Contents
  8. About the Authors
  9. Introduction
    1. Who this book is for
    2. Conventions
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. Errata, updates, & book support
    5. Stay in touch
  10. Chapter 1. Jumping into the cloud
    1. Getting started
    2. Picking a tenant name
    3. Delegating access to your tenant
    4. Should I deploy in hybrid mode?
    5. Is your Exchange environment ready?
    6. Is your directory ready?
    7. Are your users ready?
    8. What’s next?
  11. Chapter 2. Preparing your environment for the cloud
    1. Setting up your subscription
    2. Assigning administrators
    3. Configuring DNS, firewalls, and proxy servers
    4. Preparing your directories
    5. Updating and deploying client software
    6. Synchronizing your users
    7. Licensing your users
    8. What’s next?
  12. Chapter 3. Governance concepts
    1. Identity and access management concepts
    2. Governance for core workloads and features
    3. Governance controls
    4. What’s next?
  13. Chapter 4. Compliance Manager
    1. Your organization’s compliance score
    2. Assigning permissions
    3. Conducting an assessment
    4. Updating improvement actions
    5. Working with alerts
    6. What’s next?
  14. Chapter 5. Secure Score
    1. Overview
    2. Assessing your security posture
    3. Prioritizing improvements in your security posture
    4. Reporting on your security posture
    5. What’s next?
  15. Chapter 6. Labels, retention, and eDiscovery
    1. Data governance concepts
    2. Data governance scenarios
    3. Records search
    4. What’s next?
  16. Chapter 7. Enterprise Mobility + Security
    1. Overview
    2. Identity and access management
    3. Endpoint management
    4. Information protection
    5. Identity-driven security
    6. What’s next?
  17. Chapter 8. Security features of Enterprise Mobility + Security
    1. Securing identity
    2. Securing devices
    3. What’s next?
  18. Chapter 9. Identity and authentication planning
    1. Identity types
    2. User authentication
    3. Identity federation
    4. What’s next?
  19. Chapter 10. Installing AAD Connect
    1. The Custom and Express installation experiences
    2. Selecting your authentication method
    3. Connecting to your directories
    4. The UserPrincipalName and SourceAnchor attributes
    5. Uniquely identifying your users
    6. Filter users and devices
    7. Finalizing the installation
    8. What’s next?
  20. Chapter 11. Azure AD Cloud Sync
    1. Azure AD Cloud Sync
    2. Installing Azure AD Cloud Sync
    3. Configuring Azure AD Cloud Sync
    4. What’s next?
  21. Chapter 12. Advanced Azure AD scenarios
    1. Migrations and the SourceAnchor
    2. Performing migrations
    3. Additional Azure AD Connect considerations
    4. Password Writeback
    5. Precedence
    6. What’s next?
  22. Chapter 13. Azure Automation
    1. Azure Automation concepts
    2. Configuring authentication
    3. Creating a PowerShell runbook
    4. What’s next?
  23. Chapter 14. Exchange Online overview
    1. Exchange Online deployment concepts
    2. Exchange and Active Directory on-premises environment
    3. Recipients
    4. Groups
    5. Mail routing
    6. Networking
    7. Additional tools
    8. What’s next?
  24. Chapter 15. Exchange Online hybrid planning and deployment
    1. Overview of Exchange Online hybrid features
    2. Planning
    3. Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard
    4. Mailbox provisioning
    5. Decommissioning the hybrid environment
    6. What’s next?
  25. Chapter 16. Migrating mailboxes to Exchange Online
    1. Migration endpoints
    2. Migration batches
    3. Troubleshooting
    4. What’s next?
  26. Chapter 17. Migrating public folders to Exchange Online
    1. Exchange Online prerequisites
    2. Configuring hybrid public folders
    3. Public folder migration
    4. Post-migration configuration
    5. Troubleshooting
    6. What’s next?
  27. Chapter 18. Managing Exchange Online
    1. Exchange admin center
    2. Recipient management
    3. Transport
    4. Spam, phish, and malware filtering
    5. Organization management
    6. Hybrid management
    7. What’s next?
  28. Chapter 19. Microsoft Teams overview
    1. Architecture
    2. Architecture deep dive
    3. User interface
    4. What’s next?
  29. Chapter 20. Meetings, webinars, and live events
    1. Meetings
    2. Webinars
    3. Live events
    4. What’s next?
  30. Chapter 21. Phone system planning
    1. Overview of Teams Phone concepts
    2. Choosing an architecture
    3. Planning network requirements
    4. Best practices and additional network tools
    5. What’s next?
  31. Chapter 22. Phone System configuration
    1. Prerequisites
    2. Emergency dialing
    3. Phone numbers
    4. Teams voice policies
    5. What’s next?
  32. Chapter 23. Phone System advanced features
    1. Resource accounts
    2. Holidays
    3. Call queues
    4. Auto attendants
    5. What’s next?
  33. Chapter 24. Managing Teams
    1. Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams component architecture
    2. Collaboration management
    3. Troubleshooting
    4. What’s next?
  34. Chapter 25. SharePoint Online
    1. SharePoint Online concepts
    2. SharePoint Online capacities
    3. SharePoint Online features
    4. SharePoint Online hybrid
    5. What’s next?
  35. Chapter 26. SharePoint Online planning and deployment
    1. Planning a modern site architecture
    2. Designing site collection structure
    3. Planning and configuring site and guest access
    4. What’s next?
  36. Chapter 27. SharePoint Online Hybrid configuration
    1. Planning
    2. Configuration
    3. What’s next?
  37. Chapter 28. Migrating data to SharePoint Online
    1. Inventorying data sources and mapping destinations
    2. Choosing the migration tools
    3. Planning for requirements and prerequisites
    4. Scanning content
    5. Resolving blocking issues
    6. Planning for content that cannot be migrated
    7. Migrating data with SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT)
    8. What’s next?
  38. Chapter 29. SharePoint Online management
    1. Sites
    2. Policies
    3. Settings
    4. Content services
    5. Migration
    6. Reports
    7. Advanced
    8. More Features
    9. What’s next?
  39. Chapter 30. OneDrive for Business
    1. Accessing OneDrive for Business
    2. Collaborating with OneDrive for Business
    3. Deploying OneDrive for Business to your users
    4. Troubleshooting
  40. Index
  41. Code Snippets

Product information

  • Title: Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition
  • Author(s): Aaron Guilmette, Darryl Kegg, Ed Fisher
  • Release date: January 2023
  • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
  • ISBN: 9780137909056