Course Overview
Microsoft Office 365 for IT Professionals is specially tailored for technologists looking for real-world proof of how cloud-based Office 365 enables organizations t**solve more problems from more places. Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted email, communication and collaboration software – Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online – with the Office Professional Plus desktop suite.
Audience Profile
This course is designed for experienced IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers, Network Administrators, Microsoft customers and partners who need to determine how to best leverage the cloud.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to
- Understand Key components of Microsoft Office 365
- Know the deployment models
- Understand key elements of automation using PowerShell
- Know how to use Directory Sync
- Differentiate key functionality for Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online
Course Outline
Module 1: Office 365 Overview
- Why Office 365?
- Security in Office 365
- Multi-layered Defense
- Security and Compliance Features
Module 2: Deploying Clients for Microsoft Office 365
- Client Requirements (Software and Hardware)
- What Office Professional Plus is and isn’t
- Office Professional Plus Components and Interactions
- Office Professional Plus Deployment Options
- Office Professional Plus Installation Overview
- DEMO: Office Professional Plus Deployment – Unmanaged
- IT Managed Deployments
- DEMO: Office Professional Plus Deployment – Managed
- Office Professional Plus Deployment Considerations
Module 3: Microsoft Office 365 Administration and Automation Using Windows PowerShell™
- Update on Office 365 PowerShell plans
- Overview of Features
Module 4: Microsoft Office 365 Identity & Access Solutions
- Cover the different Identity Options
- Explain the Identity Architecture and Features
- Describe how federated authentication works
- DEMO: Federation Tool
- DEMO: SSO in Action
- Describe the various deployment scenarios
Module 5: Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
- What is Directory Sync?
- Who did we build Directory Sync for?
- What does Directory Sync do for you & your users
- When to use Directory Sync
- Using Directory Sync
- Requirements
- How Directory Sync works
- Common asks
- Coming features
- Gotchas
- DEMO: Directory Sync Overview
Module 6: Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
- What is Exchange Online?
- Exchange Online delivers:
- Anywhere Access
- Protection and Compliance
- Visibility and Control
- DEMO: Exchange Online Capabilities in Office 365
- Deployment Flexibility
- Unsupported feature sets
Module 7: Microsoft Exchange Online Administration
- The Tools
- DEMO: Office 365 / Exchange Online Portal Integration
- RBAC in the Cloud
- DEMO: Office 365 / Exchange Online RBAC Integration
- Mailbox Provisioning Options
- License assignment and enforcement
- Cross Premises Administration
- Partner Administration
- Geopolitical Restrictions
Module 8: Microsoft Staged Exchange Online Migration
- Migration Overview
- Cutover Exchange migration
- Staged Exchange migration
- What’s Coming?
Module 9: Hybrid Deployment w/ Exchange Server
- Review Hybrid Features
- Planning Requirements
- Exchange Sharing
- Secure Transport
- Deployment Stages
Module 10: Exchange Online Archiving and Compliance
- Overview of compliance in Exchange Online
- Explain and demonstrate key compliance features in Exchange Online
- Personal Archive
- Discovery
- Retention & Hold Policies
- Information Rights Management
- Transport rules
Module 11: Lync Online Overview & Configuration
- Lync Online Overview
- Initial set up and network configuration
- Setting up Lync federation
- Demo: Setting up interop with dial-in audi**conferencing
- Lync Meetings and dial-in audi**conferencing
- Demo: End user experience
- Roadmap update
Module 12: SharePoint Online Overview
- Intro
- SharePoint Online Features
- DEMO: SharePoint Online
- Where to start
- Live in a Hybrid World
Module 13: SharePoint Online Administration
- Introduction
- Delegated administration
- SharePoint Online Administration overview
- Site Collection ownership
- DEMO
- Planning and Assessing a Move to the Cloud
Module 14: SharePoint Online Extensibility & Customization
- Overview of Microsoft SharePoint Online development
- The power user and/or designer
- In-browser customizations
- SharePoint Designer 2010: no-code solutions
- The developer
- Sandboxed solutions
- Microsoft Silverlight®
DEMOs throughout – this is a ‘show me’ session
Module 15: Office 365 Deployment Overview
- Pre-Deployment Considerations
- Planning ->Preparing ->Migrating
- Common Deployment Blockers
- Organizational Planning
- Network Planning
- User Identity and Provisioning Planning
- Exchange Online
- Lync Online
- SharePoint Online
- Client Deployment
- Mobile Devices
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
Knowledge and proficiency with the following Microsoft technologies:
- Active Directory Domain Services and Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0; DNS; PowerShell
- Microsoft Exchange 2010/2007/20032000 ; SharePoint Server 2010/2007
- Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Or Microsoft Lync Server 2010
- Microsoft Office 2010/2007; Microsoft Internet Explorer (and other browsers); Windows Update/Microsoft Update; Windows Phone and mobility
Knowledge of network topology:
- Active Directory sites, trusts, and topology
- Wide area connectivity: on-premise networks/equipment / Internet bandwidth and latency
- Firewall technologies
Additional areas of knowledge:
- SSL Certificates; Email encryption; Archival systems
- Lotus Notes Domino, Novell GroupWise, POP/IMAP/SMTP based systems
- Project Management