What is Office 365?

Microsoft has dozens of pages of marketing materials on its main website and the http://www.office365.com site, most of which is dedicated to explaining what Office 365 is and why you should buy it. Rather than repeat that information, it’s more useful in the context of this book to talk about the technical aspects of the service and how to determine which components, if any, make sense for you to use.

The first thing you should know about Office 365 is that, at least for Exchange, the software that Microsoft runs and the software that we run on our own servers is identical, but there are functional differences. If you carefully read the Exchange 2013 documentation on TechNet, you’ll see that many cmdlet parameters are marked ...

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