Microsoft Jump Start: Office 365 for IT Professionals

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (1 day): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand Key components of Microsoft Office 365.
• Learn the deployment models.
• Understand key elements of automation using PowerShell.
• Learn how to use Directory Sync.
• Learn to differentiate key functionality for Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online.

Class Outline

1. Office 365 Overview
   1. Why Office 365?
      1. DEMO
   2. Security in Office 365
   3. Multi-layered Defense
   4. Security and Compliance Features
2. Deploying Clients for Microsoft Office 365
   1. Client Requirements (Software and Hardware)
   2. What Office Professional Plus is and isn't
   3. Office Professional Plus Components and Interactions
   4. Office Professional Plus Deployment Options
   5. Office Professional Plus Installation Overview
      1. DEMO: Office Professional Plus Deployment: Unmanaged
      2. IT Managed Deployments
      3. DEMO: Office Professional Plus Deployment: Managed
   6. Office Professional Plus Deployment Considerations
3. Microsoft Office 365 Administration and Automation Using Windows PowerShell
   1. Update on Office 365 PowerShell plans
   2. Overview of Features
      1. DEMO: PowerShell
4. Microsoft Office 365 Identity and Access Solutions
   1. Cover the different Identity Options
   2. Explain the Identity Architecture and Features
   3. Describe how federated authentication works
      1. DEMO: Federation Tool
      2. DEMO: SSO in Action
   4. Describe the various deployment scenarios
5. Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
   1. What is Directory Sync?
      1. Who did we build Directory Sync for?
      2. What does Directory Sync do for you and your users
      3. When to use Directory Sync
   2. Using Directory Sync
      1. Requirements
      2. How Directory Sync works
      3. Common asks
      4. Coming features
      5. Gotchas
   3. DEMO: Directory Sync Overview
6. Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
   1. What is Exchange Online?
   2. Exchange Online delivers:
      1. Anywhere Access
      2. Protection and Compliance
      3. Visibility and Control
      4. DEMO: Exchange Online Capabilities in Office 365
   3. Deployment Flexibility
   4. Unsupported feature sets
7. Microsoft Exchange Online Administration
   1. The Tools
      1. DEMO: Office 365 / Exchange Online Portal Integration
   2. RBAC in the Cloud
      1. DEMO: Office 365 / Exchange Online RBAC Integration
   3. Mailbox Provisioning Options
   4. License assignment and enforcement
   5. Cross Premises Administration
   6. Partner Administration
   7. Geopolitical Restrictions
8. Microsoft Staged Exchange Online Migration
   1. Migration Overview
   2. Cutover Exchange migration
   3. Staged Exchange migration
   4. What's Coming?
9. Hybrid Deployment w/ Exchange Server
   1. Review Hybrid Features
   2. Planning Requirements
   3. Exchange Sharing
   4. Secure Transport
   5. Deployment Stages
10. Exchange Online Archiving and Compliance
    1. Overview of compliance in Exchange Online
    2. Explain and demonstrate key compliance features in Exchange Online
       1. Personal Archive
       2. Discovery
       3. Retention and Hold Policies
       4. Information Rights Management
       5. Transport rules
11. Lync Online Overview and Configuration
    1. Lync Online Overview
    2. Initial set up and network configuration
    3. Setting up Lync federation
       1. Demo: Setting up interop with dial-in audio conferencing
    4. Lync Meetings and dial-in audio conferencing
       1. Demo: End user experience
    5. Roadmap update
12. SharePoint Online Overview
    1. Intro
    2. SharePoint Online Features
    3. DEMO: SharePoint Online
    4. Where to start
    5. Live in a Hybrid World
13. SharePoint Online Administration
    1. Introduction
    2. Delegated administration
    3. SharePoint Online Administration overview
    4. Site Collection ownership
    5. DEMO
    6. Planning and Assessing a Move to the Cloud
14. SharePoint Online Extensibility and Customization
    1. Overview of Microsoft SharePoint Online development
    2. The power user and/or designer
       1. In-browser customizations
       2. SharePoint Designer 2010: no-code solutions
    3. The developer
       1. Sandboxed solutions
       2. Microsoft Silverlight
    4. DEMOs throughout; this is a"show me" session
15. Office 365 Deployment Overview
    1. Pre-Deployment Considerations
    2. Planning ->Preparing ->Migrating
       1. Common Deployment Blockers
       2. Organizational Planning
       3. Network Planning
       4. User Identity and Provisioning Planning
       5. Exchange Online
       6. Lync Online
       7. SharePoint Online
       8. Client Deployment
       9. Mobile Devices

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Knowledge and proficiency with the following Microsoft technologies:
  1. Active Directory Domain Services and Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0; DNS; PowerShell
  2. Microsoft Exchange 2010/2007/2003/2000; SharePoint Server 2010/2007
  3. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Or Microsoft Lync Server 2010
  4. Microsoft Office 2010/2007; Microsoft Internet Explorer (and other browsers); Windows Update/Microsoft Update; Windows Phone and mobility
• Knowledge of network topology
  1. Active Directory sites, trusts, and topology
  2. Wide area connectivity: on-premise networks/equipment / Internet bandwidth and latency
  3. Firewall technologies
• Additional areas of knowledge
  1. SSL Certificates; Email encryption; Archival systems
  2. Lotus Notes Domino, Novell GroupWise, POP/IMAP/SMTP based systems
  3. Project Management

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.