Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook: Enhance your Office 365 productivity with recipes to manage and optimize its apps and services - Softcover

Nate Chamberlain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838551239 ISBN 13: 9781838551230

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Make the most out of your investment in Office 365 apps and services with this Microsoft Office cookbook

Key Features

• Learn how to manage and secure the entire Office 365 stack in addition to specific services
• Delve into newer and frequently shifting areas such as Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Search administration
• Discover carefully selected techniques that cover a range of administrative tasks of varying difficulty levels

Book Description

Organizations across the world have switched to Office 365 to boost workplace productivity. However, to maximize investment in Office 365, you need to know how to efficiently administer Office 365 solutions.

Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook is packed with recipes to guide you through common and not-so-common administrative tasks throughout Office 365. Whether you're administering a single app such as SharePoint or organization-wide Security & Compliance across Office 365, this cookbook offers a variety of recipes that you'll want to have to hand. The book begins by covering essential setup and administration tasks. You'll learn how to manage permissions for users and user groups along with automating routine admin tasks using PowerShell. You'll then progress through to managing core Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Azure Active Directory (AD). This book also features recipes that'll help you to manage newer services such as Microsoft Search, Power Platform, and Microsoft Teams. In the final chapters, you'll delve into monitoring, reporting, and securing your Office 365 services.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned about managing individual Office 365 services along with monitoring, securing, and optimizing your entire Office 365 deployment efficiently.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with basic Office 365 setup and routine administration tasks
• Manage Office 365 identities and groups efficiently and securely
• Harness the capabilities of PowerShell to automate common administrative tasks
• Configure and manage core Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive
• Configure and administer fast-evolving services such as Microsoft Search, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, and Azure AD
• Get up and running with advanced threat protection features provided by the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center
• Protect your organization's sensitive data with Office 365 Data Loss Prevention
• Monitor activities and behaviors across all Office 365 services

Who this book is for

This book is for newer Office 365 administrators and IT pros alike, and comes with recipes of varying difficulty levels along with step-by-step guidance. Whether you are new to Office 365 administration or just seeking new ideas, this cookbook contains recipes to enhance your organization's app and service management and productivity.

Table of Contents

1. Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration
2. Office 365 Identity and Roles
3. Administering Office 365 with PowerShell
4. Managing Exchange Online
5. Setting Up and Configuring Microsoft Search
6. Administering OneDrive
7. Configuring the Power Platform
8. Administering SharePoint Online
9. Managing Microsoft Teams
10. Configuring and Managing Users in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
11. Understanding the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center
12. Deploying Data loss Prevention and eDiscovery
13. Monitoring Office 365 Apps and Services
14. Appendix - Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses

About this title

About the Author

Nate Chamberlain, a Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert and Microsoft MVP in Office apps and services since 2019, has over 5 years of experience in helping organizations deploy and maximize their usage of Office 365 apps and services. His work has included administrative and analyst roles in the higher education, healthcare, corporate, and finance sectors.

Nate is the author of several other books, including an MS-101 exam guide, an MS-500 exam guide, and a handful of smaller publications on SharePoint, OneNote, and leading advocate groups. Nate speaks at user groups and conferences both in person and virtually throughout the year, and he can be found blogging regularly as NateChamberlain and tweeting as @chambernate on Twitter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1838551239
• ISBN 13: 9781838551230
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 442