Название: Office 365 for IT Pros (2023 Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft's Cloud Office System, Ninth Edition
Автор: Tony Redmond
Издательство: Redmond & Associates
Год: 2022
Страниц: 3137
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 27.9 MB

Why buy separate books to learn about Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, eDiscovery, Information Protection, Compliance, and PowerShell? Office 365 for IT Pros covers all these topics and much more.

Intensely practical and offering the most up-to-date coverage of its topics, Office 365 for IT Pros (2023 edition) is essential reading if you want to maximize your use of the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity service.

An Office 365 tenant administrator might have to cope with five hundred individual changes annually. Office 365 for IT Pros is the only book covering tenant management refreshed monthly with updated information as changes appear in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Planner, Teams, Azure AD, and other important components. Until the next edition is published, your subscription allows you to download monthly updates to keep pace with developments in Office 365, meaning that Office 365 for IT Pros continues to be a valuable reference long after you first read it.

Everyone involved in running an Office 365 tenant should have at least a passing acquaintance with PowerShell (and probably the Microsoft Graph APIs). We include many examples of using PowerShell across the book to help readers understand the value of being able to automate operations. Please remember that we write code to illustrate principles, not to create off-the-shelf solutions. Every organization has a certain way of doing things, its coding standards, and code libraries. We hope that our code helps you understand how PowerShell works with Office 365 so that you can take that learning and use it according to the standards laid down for your tenant. Before putting the code into production, you should add better error handling and probably rewrite it to move some code into functions or enable parameter passing, or simply make the code fit better with other scripts used in your tenant. We do not represent any of the code included in the book to be complete answers to a problem. Instead, you should treat our code as a starting point and be prepared to do some additional work to improve, smoothen, and bulletproof the code before using it to process real data.

The Microsoft Power Platform is a family of services spanning five main products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages (Figure 22-1). These services deliver methods to manipulate, surface, automate and analyze data in a low-code/no-code approach for use with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 (Microsoft’s cloud-based customer management system). The Power Platform is based on Dataverse which is the underlying data platform (based on SQL Server) for Dynamics 365. It provides a unified data schema so that applications and services can interoperate.

Office 365 applications use Azure Storage heavily and SharePoint Online is its largest single application consumer (using Azure SQL). Teams uses Azure Cosmos DB for its message and media stores. Stream is in the process of moving from Azure storage to SharePoint Online. At this point, the only major Office 365 storage system not running in Azure is Exchange Online mailbox storage, which continues to use physical mailbox servers. According to Microsoft, plans are in place to move Exchange Online to Azure storage.

Tracking Developments Inside Office 365
Written by a team of highly experienced professionals, Office 365 for IT Pros (2023 edition) is a practical, hands-on reference, based on experience gained by working on real-life projects with a range of customers since the introduction of Office 365 in June 2011. Because we’re always up-to-date, Office 365 for IT Pros is totally unlike any printed technical reference you’ve ever used.

The Massive Scale of Office 365
In April 2022, Microsoft reported almost 345 million paid seats of Office 365 (enterprise plans). Office 365 for IT Pros (2023 edition) includes in-depth coverage of essential business productivity features such as Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, Stream, Planner, Power Automate, Power Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer, and OneDrive for Business. You'll learn about data governance, compliance, eDiscovery, and how to exploit the audit log to understand what's really happening inside a tenant. A chapter on Microsoft Information Protection teaches you how to protect sensitive messages and documents.