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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

Hiding Office 365 groups from the Global Address List

Managing data and access to that data is a core component of tenant administration. In Office 365, groups have become a critical component of effective collaboration. However, this means the list of Office 365 groups can become long and, at times, confusing for users.

Trimming which groups show in the Global Address List (GAL) can help users find and connect with the right people in their organization. Additionally, some groups may require additional security or confidentiality even around its existence (for example, merger and acquisition projects, executive committees, and so on).

In this recipe, we'll restrict certain Office 365 groups from the GAL.

Getting ready

Using the skills learned in the Setting up the PowerShell environment recipe in Chapter 1, Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration, connect to your Office 365 tenant via PowerShell.

The cmdlets for interacting with Office 365 groups are found...