Office 365

Course Description

This course targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies.

This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and users.

Course Prerequisites

This course requires that student meet the following prerequisites, including that they have:

• An understanding of networking fundamentals.

• An understanding of basic AD DS concepts.

• An awareness and understanding of security best practices.

• Basic knowledge of server hardware.

• Experience working with, and configuring, Windows client operating systems, such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.

Course Outline

Preparing for Office 365

• Introduction to Office 365

• Provisioning the Tenant Accounts

• Planning a Pilot

• Enabling Client Connectivity

Managing Users, Groups, and Licenses

• Manage Users and Licenses by Using the Administration Center

• Manage Security and Distribution Groups

• Manage Cloud Identities with Windows PowerShell

Administering Office 365

• Manage Administrator Roles in Office 365

• Configure Password Management

• Administer Rights Management

Planning and Managing Clients

• Plan for Office Clients

• Manage User-driven Client Deployments

• Manage IT Deployments of Office 365 ProPlus

• Office Telemetry and Reporting

Planning DNS and Exchange Migration

• Add and Configure Custom Domains

• Recommend a Mailbox Migration Strategy

• Explain how to add custom domains to Office 365 and customize this domains to the organization’s requirements.

• Recommend a mailbox migration strategy for moving to Exchange Online

• Plan for implementing Exchange Online within your organization

• Configure DNS records for Office 365 services.

Planning Exchange Online and Configuring DNS Records

• Plan for Exchange Online

• Configure DNS Records for Services

• Explain how to add custom domains to Office 365 and customize these domains to the organization’s requirements.

• Recommend a mailbox migration strategy for moving to Exchange Online.

• Plan for implementing Exchange Online within your organization.

• Configure DNS records for Office 365 services.

Administering Exchange Online

• Configure Personal Archive Policies

• Manage Anti-malware and Anti-spam Policies

• Configure Additional Email Addresses for Users

• Create and Manage External Contacts, Resources, and Groups

Manage SharePoint Site Collections

• Configure External User Sharing

• Plan a Collaboration Solution

• Manage SharePoint site collections by using the SharePoint Online admin center and Windows PowerShell.

• Configure external user sharing by using the Office 365 admin center.

• Plan a collaboration solution.

Configuring Lync Online

• Plan for Lync Online

• Configure Lync Online Settings

• Plan for Lync Online.

• Configure Lync Online settings.

Implementing Directory Synchronization

• Prepare On-premises Active Directory for DirSync

• Set up DirSync

• Manage Active Directory Users and Groups with DirSync In Place

• Prepare an on-premises environment ready for directory synchronization.

• Install and configure DirSync.

• Manage Active Directory users in a DirSync enabled scenario.

Implementing Active Directory Federation Services

• Planning for AD FS

• Install and Manage AD FS Servers

• Install and Manage AD FS Proxy Servers

Monitoring Office 365

• Isolate Service Interruption

• Monitor Service Health