Office 365 for IT Pros: Third Edition

Master Microsoft Office 365 like a pro. This book is essential reading if you want to maximize your use of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud office system. Previously published as “Office 365 for Exchange Professionals”, this edition adds an extra 250 pages of content covering material such as Office 365 Groups, Office 365 Planner, Delve Analytics, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business in addition to all of the information you’d ever want to have about Exchange Online.

Companies are moving workload to Office 365 at increasing speed as can be seen in the steady increase in revenues reported for commercial cloud products in Microsoft's financial results. Over 70 million active users and 1.2 million tenants already use Office 365. Exchange Online is called "the gateway drug to the cloud" by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella because it is usually the first workload to move from on-premises servers into the cloud. But as explained in the book, once you’ve moved mail across, there are plenty of new and exciting advantages to be gained from the wide breadth of functionality that exists elsewhere inside Office 365.

This is the only book on the market that is constantly refreshed and updated with new information to keep pace with developments within Office 365. The rapid cadence and rate of change within Office 365 means that any book that holds to its original text for more than a few months is outdated. According to Microsoft, over 450 changes were made to Office 365 in the year to August 2015. The current version is accurate as of the date shown above.
You can find documentation about Office 365, Exchange Online, and associated technologies on TechNet or scattered across a set of blogs (some of which are great, others are not so good), or you can find it collected here in the single most comprehensive coverage of the topic. Written by three highly experienced Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Office 365 for Exchange Professionals is a practical hands-on manual based on the experience of the writers gained from working in real-life projects with a range of customers since the introduction of Office 365 in June 2011.
The book includes in-depth instructions of all the activities required to migrate an on-premises Exchange deployment or to create a hybrid organization spanning cloud and on-premises components. The book is broken down into 24 chapters

1: An overview of Office 365.
2: Making the decision to embrace the cloud
3: Office 365 Identities and authentication
4: Migrating to Office 365
5: Managing Office 365
6: Managing hybrid connections
7: Managing Exchange Online mailboxes
8: Managing other mail-enabled objects
9: Managing Office 365 Groups
10: Office 365 Planner
11: Managing Public Folders
12: Managing Office 365 Addressing
13: Managing hybrid recipients
14: Managing mail flow
15: Managing Office 365 clients
16: Email retention policies
17: Exchange and SharePoint eDiscovery
18: Office 365 Security and Compliance Center
19: Reporting and Auditing Office 365
20: Information Rights Management
21: Data Loss Prevention
22: Office 365 Delve and Delve Analytics
23: Doing more with Office 365
24: Preparing Active Directory for the cloud

Throughout its 400,000 words, the book is crammed full of practical examples (including over 700 PowerShell code commands and scripts) showing how to interact with different Office 365 applications.

The intent of the authors is to update the book through a series of new versions released periodically to match the updates and new features made available by Microsoft to Office 365 tenants. In addition, we will update the Kindle version of this book to clarify and refine details included in the text, so you can refresh your Kindle library to get the latest text.