Office 365 from the ground to the cloud
Webinar 8 – Preparing for Exam 74-325
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74-325
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Cover Skills necessary for Small Businesses IT professionals to succeed
with Office 365 administration
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Learn about Office 365 platform, service and offerings
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Execute common small business management tasks within Office 365
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Administer advanced Exchange Online security, routing, SPAM,
archiving, compliance and more
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Learn service and site management for SharePoint Online; Lync Online
Resources
Go through the Jumpstart Training
Tip: Learn the Office 365 Plans
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A lot of questions on choosing the most appropriate plan
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Know the limits to each plan:
– 10Gb base SharePoint online storage + 500MB additional for each user – No extra storage for kiosk workers
– Maximum Storage: 35GB (SB), 1.25TB (Midsize), 25TB (E, A and G) – Max file upload size 250MB but increasing to 2GB
– Small Business plan can only have 1 site collection
– Midsize can have up to 20 site collections (100GB per site collection) – E plans can have up to 3,000
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My customer has 15 users. How much
default SharePoint Online storage will
they get?
Tip: Installation
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Minimum requirements
– Any supported MS or Apple OS, Office 2003 for POP and IMAP only, Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1, Office Mac 2011 SP3, IE 8, 9 or 10, latest Firefox or Chrome
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Services connector
Tip: User Management
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3 ways to create users
– Office 365 Admin Centre – Directory sync
– PowerShell
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Minimum information required to create a user
– Display name, user name, user location (not required by PowerShell)
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Passwords
– Expiration policies can be set globally through the admin centre or per user via PowerShell
Tip: Understand Basics of SSO
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On premises must be a routable domain and not .local, .internal, .loc
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Cloud Identity + DirSync
– Requires on-premises AD
– Separate cloud credential from corporate credential
– Office 365 authentication occurs via cloud directory service – Office 365 password policy is stored in Office 365
– “Source of Authority” is on-premises
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Federated Identity
– Same credential as corporate credential
– Authentication occurs via on-premises Active Directory service – Password policy is stored on-premises
Tip: Understand Basics of SSO
Cloud Identity
Single identity in the cloud Suitable for small organizations with no integration to on-premises directories
Directory & Password Synchronization
Single identity
suitable for medium
and large organizations without federation
Federated Identity
Tip: Learn the Office 365 Roles
Tip: Learn the PowerShell Cmdlets
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Install Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant:
– http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28177
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Install the Windows Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell:
– http://aka.ms/aadposh
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Common PowerShell Cmdlets are also listed at the above link
Tip: Learn the PowerShell Cmdlets
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Set single user’s password to never expire:
– SetMsolUser –UserPrincipalName User@domain.com
-PasswordNeverExpires $True
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Set entire organizational unit's passwords to never expire:
– Get-MsolUser | Set-MsolUser –PasswordNeverExpires $True
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To see all users and their password never expires setting:
– Get-MSOLUser | Select UserPrincipalName, PasswordNeverExpires
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Change account password timeout settings
Tip: Learn the PowerShell Cmdlets
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Preparing and upgrading SharePoint Site Collections
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Request-SPOUpgradeEvaluationSite
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Upgrade-SPOSite
– www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/02/04/how-to-perform-a-sharepoint-2013-site-collection-upgrade-with-powershell.aspx
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Create a new user “bobsmith@contoso.com”
– New-MsolUser –UserPrincipalName bobsmith@contoso.com -DisplayName “Bob Smith” –
FirstName “Bob” –LastName “Smith”
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Assign mailbox permissions
Tip: Exchange Migration Options
• Four methods for email migration:
– Remote move for hybrid deployments to move on-premises Exchange to O365
– Staged Exchange migration for batch moves for example from pilot deployments or older versions – Cutover migration moves all email in a single batch; no tool or on-premises AD requirements – IMAP migrates content from users' mailboxes to O365 – migrates email only
• Receomendations
– For less than 1,000 mailboxes: use cutover migration (or staged from Exchange 2007/3)
– For more than 1,000 mailboxes use remote move in a hybrid deployment (or staged from Exchange 2007/3)
– Older Exchange or non-Exchange use IMAP migration
Tip: Exchange Tools
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Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA)
– Web-based tool to help troubleshoot connectivity issues that affect deployments – https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
– Reference on technet.microsoft.com/library/feba32b0-b7eb-4b1b-ba3d-99e20ba82a8c
What is tested What else is tested What else is tested
Office 365 General Tests Exchange DNS Connectivity Lync DNS Connectivity Office 365 Single Sign-On
Exchange Active Sync Tests Exchange ActiveSync Exchange ActiveSync Autodiscover
Exchange Web Services Tests Synchronization, Notification, Availability & Auto Replies Service Account Access
(developers)
Outlook Connectivity Tests Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP) Outlook Autodiscover
Internet Email Tests Inbound SMTP email Outbound SMTP email
Tip: Exchange Tools
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Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer Tool
– Downloadable program runs local on the client pc– https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ClientDownload/Microsoft.Exchange.Connectivit y.Analysis.Tool.application
– Companion to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer
– Identifies connectivity issues between email clients & Office 365 Exchange Online
• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/feba32b0-b7eb-4b1b-ba3d-99e20ba82a8c
Misc Tips
• Create a Public-facing website
• Understand the DNS settings for conneting a domain name to SharePoint Online
• Roles necessary for users to manage lists in SharePoint Online
• Partner access licences
• Roles required to create custom Exchange admins
• What can the billing role do?
• Differences between global admin, service admin, organization admin
• Administration rights on SharePoint site collections
• Adjusting setting of SharePoint intranet sites, e.g. to use local time settings
• Exchange Spam options
• Mobile device management
Resources
https://www.imageframe.co.uk/technologies/cloud-services/
