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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

Chapter 8: Administering SharePoint Online

SharePoint administration is a significant part of the O365 admin's responsibilities as it, in many ways, serves as one of the core functions and requirements of successful O365 implementation: learning to provision new site collections, managing sharing and site sprawl, and improving the user experience.

Throughout this chapter, you may see site collection or site used interchangeably as Microsoft shifts to a site-based architecture whose language is inclusive of all site template types.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a new site collection
  • Deleting a site collection
  • Limiting external sharing abilities
  • Setting up stricter external sharing settings for a specific site collection
  • Setting up the default share link type
  • Configuring site collection storage
  • Giving someone access to another user's OneDrive site
  • Importing data from network locations using Migration...