Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out, 3rd Edition

Length: 992 pages
Edition: 3
Language: English
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication Date: 2023-01-28
ISBN-10: 0137908857
ISBN-13: 9780137908851
Sales Rank: #718193 (See Top 100 Books)

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

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