Managing Office 365 Identities and Services

Planning a FastTrack Pilot

Provisioning the Tenant Account

Preparing to Manage Office 365

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the features and benefits of Office 365.

Plan a pilot deployment of Office 365.

Provision new tenant accounts.

Check that clients can connect to the Office 365 service.

In this module, students learn about managing users, groups, and licenses by using the Office 365 console and Microsoft PowerShell.

Manage Users and Licenses by Using the Administration Center

Manage Security and Distribution Groups

Manage Cloud Identities with Windows PowerShell

Manage Users and Licenses by Using the Administration Center

Manage Security and Distribution Groups

Manage Cloud Identities with Microsoft PowerShell

Set Up the Exchange Server

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage users and licenses by using the Office 365 admin center.

Manage security and distribution groups by using the Office 365 admin center.

Manage users, licenses, and groups by using Windows PowerShell.

In this module, students learn about more complex administration functions, such as the management of administrators themselves, how to configure and set password policies in Office 365, and how to enable and administer rights management to protect confidential documents.

Manage Administrator Roles in Office 365

Configure Password Management

Administer Rights Management

Manage Administrator Roles in Office 365

Configure Password Management

Administer Rights Management

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage users and licenses by using the Office 365 admin center.

Manage security and distribution groups by using the Office 365 admin center.

Manage users, licenses, and groups by using Windows PowerShell.

In this module, students learn how to plan for client deployment and ensure that users get the tools they need to interact with Office 365 effectively. This module covers the planning process, how to make Office 365 ProPlus available to end-users directly, and how to deploy it as a managed package. Finally, this module covers how to set up Office telemetry so that administrators can keep track of how users are interacting with Microsoft Office.

Plan for Office Clients

Manage User-driven Client Deployments

Manage IT Deployments of Office 365 ProPlus

Office Telemetry and Reporting

Manage user-driven client deployments

Manage IT deployments of Office 365 ProPlus

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for deploying Office 365 clients.

Prepare for user-driven client deployments.

Prepare for managed IT deployments of Office 365 clients.

Implement and use Office Telemetry with Office 365 clients.

In this module, you move on learn about the factors that cover DNS domain configuration for Office 365, where you need to add the customer's existing domain or domains to Office 365. This module also covers the individual settings that you need to configure so that each Office 365 service works correctly and fully supports client access. These activities typically happen in the Deploy phase of the FastTrack process.

So far, you have been looking at Office 365 on its own. In this module, you move on to considering what you have to cover when migrating services from your on-premise environment, starting with your email system. This module addresses the key issues of migrating email accounts to Exchange Online and the planning involved in that process. In the lab, you will practice that planning and then carry out a cutover migration from your on-premises environment to Exchange Online.

Add and Configure Custom Domains

Recommend a Mailbox Migration Strategy

Configure Exchange Server for Cutover Migration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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.

In this module, you learn about the factors that cover DNS domain configuration for Office 365, where you need to add the customer's existing domain or domains to Office 365. This module also covers the individual settings that you need to configure so that each Office 365 service works correctly and fully supports client access. These activities typically happen in the Deploy phase of the FastTrack process.

So far, you have been looking at Office 365 on its own. In this module, you examine the scenario in which you migrate services from your on-premise environment, starting with your email system. This module addresses the key issues of migrating email accounts to Exchange Online and the planning involved in that process. In the lab, you will practice that planning and then carry out a cutover migration from your on-premises environment to Exchange Online.

Plan for Exchange Online

Configure DNS Records for Services

Perform a cutover migration to Exchange Online

Configure DNS Records for Services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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.

previous module, including archive polices, anti-malware and anti-spam settings, additional email addresses and external contacts and resources. These are actions that you would typically carry out during the Deploy phase of the Office 365 FastTrack deployment or as part of the normal management operations of Exchange Online.

You typically carry out these actions through the Office 365 portal, although you can also use the Windows Azure Active Directory PowerShell console to access additional features.

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure Messaging Records Management (MRM) for Exchange Online

Manage Anti-malware and Anti-spam Policies

Configure additional email addresses for users

Create and manage external contacts, resources, and groups in Exchange Online

In this module, students learn how to plan a SharePoint Online implementation that reflects the customer's needs and then create site collections that reflect those requirements. This module then covers the process of external user sharing with SharePoint Online and describes how this arrangement helps organizations share information more effectively.

Manage SharePoint Site Collections

Configure External User Sharing

Plan a Collaboration Solution

Create SharePoint Site Collections

Configure External User Sharing

Configure Social and Collaboration Features

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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.

In this module, students learn how to identify factors in the customer's environment that need to be reflected in the Lync Online deployment plan, then configure Lync Online to reflect the customer's business requirements, both at the end-user level and at the organization level.

Plan for Lync Online

Configure Lync Online Settings

Configure Lync End-User Communication Settings

Configure Lync Organizational Settings

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for Lync Online.

Configure Lync Online settings.

In this module, students learn how to plan, prepare and implement DirSync as a methodology for user and group management in an Office 365 deployment. The module covers the preparation of an on-premises environment, the installation and configuration of DirSync, and how to manage Active Directory users after DirSync has been enabled.

Prepare On-premises Active Directory for DirSync

Set up DirSync

Manage Active Directory Users and Groups with DirSync In Place

Prepare on-premises Active Directory for DirSync

Set up DirSync

Manage Active Directory users and groups with DirSync in place

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Prepare an on-premises environment ready for directory synchronization.

Install and configure DirSync.

Manage Active Directory users in a DirSync enabled scenario.

In this module, students learn to plan for single sign-on (SSO) by using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and then cover the process for setting up an AD FS server farm and an AD FS proxy. This module also cover the management process for certificates and the AD FS servers.

Planning for AD FS

Install and Manage AD FS Servers

Install and Manage AD FS Proxy Servers

Install AD FS Servers and Proxy Servers

Manage AD FS Servers and Proxy Servers

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for an AD FS deployment.

Install and manage AD FS servers.

Install and manage AD FS proxies.

In this module, students learn about monitoring user connections to Office 365 and how to cope with service outages. They look at a range of tools that diagnose service health and review the reports that Office 365 provides.

Isolate Service Interruption

Monitor Service Health

Analyze Reports

Track Message Delivery

Monitor Service Health and Analyze Reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Isolate and identify causes of Office 365 service interruption.

Monitor Office 365 service health.

Analyze and use Office 365 reports.