Office 365 Essentials

Get up and running with the fundamentals of Office 365

Nuno Arias Silva

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781788621663
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Leverage Office 365 to increase your organization's efficiency by managing users, domains, licenses, and much more in your organization with most powerful subscription software.About This Book• Get acquainted with the basics of Office 365• Configure and manage workloads efficiently using Office 365• A comprehensive guide covering every aspect of planning, and managing this multifaceted collaboration system.Who This Book Is ForIf you are working as a system administration or an IT professional and are keen to learn the fundamentals of Office 365, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of office 365 is necessary.What You Will Learn• Learn how to implement Office 365 from scratch and how to use best practices to be a successful Office 365 professional• Understand Microsoft productivity services to take your organization or business to the next level by increasing productivity.• Learn how workloads and applications interact and integrate with each other• Learn to manage Skype for Business Online• Get support and monitor service health with Office 365• Manage and administer identities and groups efficientlyIn DetailOffice 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and servicesStyle and approachA practical guide that offers a simple way to easily understand Office 365—a complete reference for planning, configuring, and maintaining Office 365.

Managing Office 365

In this chapter, you will learn how to manage Office 365 in your organization. It will cover the following topics:

• Managing basic tasks
• Managing advanced tasks
• Implementing new features

Office 365 Admin center

After setting up a Microsoft Office 365 tenant, you created a user with global administrator permissions on your tenant. There are several roles and administrative permissions that you can assign to user accounts based on the access requirements for each workload. You can assign, for example, the Exchange administrator role to the person who is managing the Exchange workload and assign the SharePoint administrator to a person of another department to manage SharePoint. With this separation of roles, you have more granular security in your tenant, without giving full access to all the workloads in the tenant. The available roles that you can assign to users are as follows:

• Global administrator
• Billing administrator
• Exchange administrator
• SharePoint administrator
• Password administrator
• Skype for Business administrator
• Service administrator
• User management administrator
• Reports reader
• Dynamics 365
• Dynamics 365 service administrator
• Power BI administrator

More details about these roles are available at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/About-Office-365-admin-roles-da585eea-f576-4f55-a1e0-87090b6aaa9d?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US. All these roles are based on Azure AD, where you can also set them up and assign additional roles, such as the following:

• Billing administrator
• Compliance administrator
• Conditional access administrator
• CRM service administrator
• Device administrator
• Directory reader
• Directory synchronization account
• Directory writer
• Exchange service administrator
• Global administrator/Company administrator
• Guest inviter
• Intune service administrator
• Mailbox administrator
• Password administrator/Helpdesk administrator
• Power BI service administrator
• Privileged role administrator
• Security administrator
• Security reader
• Service support administrator
• SharePoint service administrator
• Skype for Business administrator
• User account administrator

You can find more information at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-assign-admin-roles-azure-portal. To access the Office 365 Admin center, go through the following steps:

1. Go to http://portal.office.com or directly to https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/homepage
2. Log in with credentials that have admin privileges
3. Select the Admin menu
4. Go to the Admin centers drop-down on the left-hand menu:

In the home page of the Admin center, you have several options, such as the following:

• Home—landing page
• Users—manage users
• Groups—manage groups
• Resources—manage resources
• Billing—manage billing
• Support—manage support
• Settings—manage global settings
• Setup—set up services
• Reports—manage and view reports
• Health—view service health status
• Admin centers—manage other services

In each section, you'll find the tasks available to manage each piece of your Office 365 tenant.

Home

On the home page of Office 365 Admin center, you can directly access several options based on the most used tasks, as well as some useful dashboards. You can perform tasks such as the following:

• Search for users, group settings, or tasks in the search pane
• Check the directory synchronization status
• Go directly to the user management area to create, delete, edit, or reset a password of a user
• Go to the Billing section
• Go to Office software section
• Manage domains
• Manage support
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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction to Office 365
• Fundamentals of Office 365
• Office 365 Basic Workloads
• Identities and Authentication
• Configuring Office 365
• Managing Office 365
• Exchange Online
• SharePoint Online
• Skype for Business
• Working with Microsoft Teams
• Delve
• Managing Workloads
• Adopting Office 365
• Monitoring and Support
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