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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By : Nate Chamberlain
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Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook

By: Nate Chamberlain

Overview of this book

Organizations across the world have switched to Office 365 to boost workplace productivity. However, to maximize investment in Office 365, you need to know how to efficiently administer Office 365 solutions. Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook is packed with recipes to guide you through common and not-so-common administrative tasks throughout Office 365. Whether you’re administering a single app such as SharePoint or organization-wide Security & Compliance across Office 365, this cookbook offers a variety of recipes that you’ll want to have to hand. The book begins by covering essential setup and administration tasks. You’ll learn how to manage permissions for users and user groups along with automating routine admin tasks using PowerShell. You’ll then progress through to managing core Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Azure Active Directory (AD). This book also features recipes that’ll help you to manage newer services such as Microsoft Search, Power Platform, and Microsoft Teams. In the final chapters, you’ll delve into monitoring, reporting, and securing your Office 365 services. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about managing individual Office 365 services along with monitoring, securing, and optimizing your entire Office 365 deployment efficiently.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Chapter 14: Appendix – Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses

Accessing and reviewing an organization's secure score

Your secure score gives you an idea of how well protected your organization is based on your administrative setting configurations, policies, and activities. In this recipe, you'll learn how to find and analyze your organization's secure score.

Getting ready

You should be a global, security, Exchange, SharePoint, or account administrator to access Secure Score.

How to do it…

  1. Go directly to your secure score overview at https://securescore.microsoft.com/. You can also go to the Microsoft 365 Security Center (https://security.microsoft.com/) and click Secure Score from the left navigation menu.
  2. Check your secure score breakdown in the leftmost column of the Overview tab. You'll notice the categories for each of the following making up your score:

    --Identity: Accounts and roles in Azure AD

    --Data: Microsoft Information Protection

    --Device: Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ...