Office 365 Administration
See full Office 365 Admin course on www.Pluralsight.com
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Welcome!O Ron Schindler
O Trainer and Consultant for over 20 yearsO Working with Office 365, previously BPOS since 2010
O Trained Microsoft Tier 1 and Tier 2 technical support agents.O Trained Microsoft Partners in United States and Canada for
Office365 rollout.O Recently published a whole Office 365 Administration
course for Pluralsight.comO Currently work as a Change Manager and SharePoint
Site Admin for the State of Utah Medicaid Division.
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Let Me Know…O How many of you have been to this event in the past?O How many have not been in a Microsoft Office 365
account yet?O Who is using a part of Office 365 on your mobile device?O How many of you have been using Office 365 for 6
months or longer?O How many are Small Business Accounts?O How many are Midsize Business Accounts?O How many are Enterprise level accounts?
O How many of you are using ALL the features of Office 365?
O Anyone have hybrid environments with Exchange, SharePoint, or Lync?
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Administration of Office 365 in one hour
O The Admin Control Panel and Dashboard HighlightsO Getting HelpO SetupO Provisioning UsersO Reports, Support, Purchasing Services, Messages, and
ToolsO Exchange Admin TipsO Lync Admin TipsO SharePoint Admin Tips
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Admin Center HighlightsO Right Side
O Admin ShortcutsO ResourcesO Community
O MiddleO Information area – Information here will vary
upon options chosen in the left side navigational menu.
O Left SideO Navigation to options or menu items to reach
more information.
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Getting HelpO Right side navigation of the Admin Center
O Resources are great for initial setupO Community is for answers to almost all other
questionsO Service Requests
O Phone versus Web requestO Phone should be for outagesO Web request responses are pretty fast.
O You will get support from ESL technicians after hours
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SetupO Quick Setup
O Add a user or manyO Add a domain
O Advanced Setup• You will need to register for a Windows Azure AD Identity in order to sign on. Once signed in...
• You will be able to specify to what level you will use Office 365. • Will you be using Office 365 completely with no other servers? • Will you be using your on premise Active Directory to just sync with Office 365? • Will you be doing any federation between other farms or others outside your
domain? • You will be able to migrate your email from Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, or later. • You will be able to migrate from Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise, or IMAP servers. • You will be able to use analyzer tools to help setup DNS and other networking settings or
be able to find a Microsoft partner that will help you through all the technical setup.
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Provisioning UsersO One user at a time
O Users and groupsO Admin shortcutsO Quick Setup
O Add multiple users through a .csv fileO Download sample and edit
O Sorting and Filtering Users
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All the other linksO DomainsO LicensingO Service SettingsO HealthO ReportsO SupportO Purchasing moreO Messages and Tools
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Exchange Admin TipsO Add Resources first thing!
O Use Mail TipsO Contacts
O Mail ContactO Just an external email address
O Mail UserO Still external but has a logon to Exchange or Office 365
to access resources.
Lync TipsO Organization
O Presence information can be set globallyO User can override this later
O External CommunicationsO Block or notO Turn on Skype federation
SharePoint Admin TipsO Make note of storage amounts
O Your 25 Gig plus all MySite totalsO SkyDrive Pro (Soon to be OneDrive for Business)
O Don’t over assign to one user in SkyDrive
O SettingsO Yammer versus NewsfeedO SharingO 2010 or 2013?
O Enable Office on Demand
Questions?O Thanks for attending and have a great day at the
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O Check out the full Office 365 Admin course at Pluralsight.com
Ron Schindler