Preface

Thank you for buying this Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook. Throughout the chapters that follow, you'll find over 100 recipes that walk you through administrative functions in the various apps and services that are to be found in Office 365. While that may seem like a lot, we're just scratching the surface. And in many cases, we've made a decision in recipes to focus on a specific way of configuring a policy or setting that could be configured a dozen other ways. The flexibility and potential for variation in how you administer your unique Office 365 environment in your organization is seemingly endless. This cookbook should simply spark ideas and get you on the right track to where you want to take your own apps and services. Always consult your organization's compliance and governance guidelines before making any significant changes, especially regarding security and compliance, and be sure to include others in decision-making where appropriate.

Who this book is for

The target audience for this book is new Office 365 administrators or those with beginner-level experience. Recipes will vary from beginner to advanced in complexity, but overall, they should be accessible to new administrators. Experienced administrators may also find value with the inclusion of newer apps and services, including those to do with the Power Platform and Microsoft Search.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration, covers connecting a domain to your tenant, enabling PowerShell abilities, and migrating data to your new tenant, as well as basic navigation and routine tasks for administrators.

Chapter 2, Office 365 Identity and Roles, explores recipes that involve provisioning and managing users and groups in Office 365.

Chapter 3, Administering Office 365 with PowerShell, focuses exclusively on tasks that can be performed in Office 365 as an administrator using PowerShell.

Chapter 4, Managing Exchange Online, takes a look at configuring the user experience and security of your mail environment. Recipes range from Exchange basics to more advanced topics involving security.

Chapter 5, Setting Up and Configuring Microsoft Search, dives into one of the latest additions to Microsoft 365 and covers basic setup and configuration tasks, such as adding bookmarks and Q&A results, as well as utilizing data to improve and enhance the user experience.

Chapter 6, Administering OneDrive, looks at managing default and security settings and migrating data from local network locations to OneDrive.

Chapter 7, Configuring the Power Platform, explores important settings and administrative recipes for each of the Power Platform applications.

Chapter 8, Administering SharePoint Online, includes recipes on provisioning new site collections, managing sharing and site sprawl, and improving the user experience.

Chapter 9, Managing Microsoft Teams, covers Microsoft Teams, covering creating new teams and configuring policies and settings for live events, meetings, teams, external access, guests, and messaging.

Chapter 10, Configuring and Managing Users in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), explores customizing the Azure AD portal, administering with PowerShell, enabling self-service password reset, access reviews, and more.

Chapter 11, Understanding the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center, covers the essentials of the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center, such as monitoring audit log activities, working with Secure Score, and configuring advanced threat protection features.

Chapter 12, Deploying Data Loss Prevention and eDiscovery, covers data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types and labeling, eDiscovery cases, and more.

Chapter 13, Monitoring Office 365 Apps and Services, demonstrates how to procure reports on important and helpful topics that will enable you, as an administrator, to respond to risks and plan for growth in Office 365.

Chapter 14, Appendix – Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses, contains links to helpful and current resources on subscriptions and licenses.

To get the most out of this book

Because everything covered in this book involves Office 365, a cloud-based and subscription-based service, you'll need a constant internet connection and an Office 365 subscription. In most cases, an E3 or E5 subscription will be sufficient, and recipes that require add-ons will specify that.

If you have a subscription through your organization, you may be able to perform some of these recipes if you've been granted the proper administrative role for the recipe(s) you wish to perform. If you're unable to obtain proper permissions and just want to practice the recipes, you can get a personal trial of Microsoft 365 at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/try. You can also get a Microsoft 365 tenant pre-populated with users and content specifically intended for development and testing at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself. Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Install-Module AzureADPreview

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select Show all from the left navigation menu."

Tips or important notes

Appear like this.

Sections

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more..., and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, use these sections as follows:

Getting ready

This section tells you what to expect in the recipe and describes how to set up any software or any preliminary settings required for the recipe.

How to do it…

This section contains the steps required to follow the recipe.

How it works…

This section usually consists of a detailed explanation of what happened in the previous section.

There's more…

This section consists of additional information about the recipe in order to make you more knowledgeable about the recipe.

See also

This section provides helpful links to other useful information for the recipe.

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