MCSA: Office 365

Provision Tenants

• Configure the tenant name, tenant region, global administrator; manage tenant subscriptions; and manage the licensing model

Add and configure custom domains

• Specify domain name, confirm ownership, specify domain purpose, and move ownership of DNS to Office 365

Plan a pilot

• Designate pilot users, identify workloads that don’t require migration, run the Office 365 on-ramp readiness tool, create a test plan or use case, and connect existing email accounts for pilot users, service descriptions

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Configure DNS records for services

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  Creating DNS records for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint

Enable client connectivity to Office 365

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  Configure proxy server to allow anonymous access to Office 365 URLs, configure firewalls for
  outbound port access to Office 365, recommend bandwidth, Internet connectivity for clients,
  and deploy desktop setup for previous versions of Office clients

Administer rights management (RM)

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  Activate rights management, Office integration with rights management, assign roles for
  Microsoft Azure Active Directory RM and enable recovery of protected document

Manage administrator roles in Office 365

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  Permission model, create or revoke assignment of administrative roles or the administrative model,
  determine and assign global administrator, billing administrator and user administrator, delegated
  administrator, and control password resets

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Configure password management

• Expiry policy, password complexity, password resets and Administration Centre

Manage user and security groups

• Bulk import, Azure Active Directory Graph API, soft delete, Administration Centre and multi-factor authentication

Manage cloud identities with Windows PowerShell

• Configure passwords to never expire, bulk update of user properties, bulk user creation, Azure Active Directory cmdlets, bulk user licence management and hard delete users

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Prepare on-premises Active Directory for DirSync

• Plan for non-routable domain names, clean up existing objects, plan for filtering Active Directory, and support for multiple forests

Set up DirSync [WAAD sync tool]

• Soft match filtering and identify synchronised attributes, password sync, and installation requirements

Manage Active Directory users and groups with DirSync in place

• Delete, create, modify, and schedule and force synchronisation

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Plan requirements for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

• Namespaces and certificates, plan AD FS internal topologies and dependencies, plan AD FS proxy topologies, network requirements, multi-factor authentication, and access filtering using claims rules

Install and manage AD FS servers

• Create AD FS service accounts, configure farm or stand-alone settings, add additional servers, convert from standard to federated domain, and manage certificate life cycle

Install and manage AD FS proxy servers

• Set up perimeter network name resolution, install required Windows roles and features, set up certificates, configure AD FS proxy settings, and set custom proxy forms login page

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Analyse reports

• Service reports, mail protection reports, auditing log and portal email hygiene reports

Monitor service health

• RSS feed, service health dashboard (including awareness of planned maintenance, service updates and historical data), Office 365 Management Pack for System Centre Operations Manager, and Windows PowerShell cmdlets

Isolate service interruption

• Create a service request, Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyser (RCA), Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) support toolkit, Transport Reliability IP Probe (TRIPP), Microsoft Connectivity Analyser tool, and hybrid free/busy troubleshooter

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Manage user-driven client deployments

• Restrict self-provisioning of Office 365 ProPlus, Windows Store Apps and Mobile Apps, activation/revoke activation, and Office for Mac

Manage IT deployments of Office 365 ProPlus

• Manage deployment, manage streaming updates, use the Office deployment tool and customise deployment

Set up telemetry and reporting

• Enable telemetry through Group Policy, set up telemetry service, report user issues and deploy agent

Plan for Office clients

• Outlook, Lync client, Office on Demand, Office Web Apps, and click-to-run versus MSI

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Configure external user sharing

• Configure the tenant name, tenant region, global administrator; manage tenant subscriptions; and manage the licensing model

Create SharePoint site collection

• Set SharePoint Online site collection administrator, set resource quota and warning level, configure public website, set storage quota for site collection, and configure name and URL of site collection

Plan a collaboration solution

• Yammer versus newsfeeds, co authoring, Project Online, access files across multiple client devices (for example, migrate files to OneDrive for Business), Excel services, Visio services, App Store and the need for enterprise eDiscovery

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Configure additional email addresses for users

• Change style/reply to address, bulk add/remove for new domain, manage secondary email aliases and SIP addresses

Create and manage external contacts, resources and groups

• Create and manage resource mailboxes, create shared mailboxes, create external contacts, assign additional email address to contacts, create and manage distribution lists and members, and delegate permissions

Configure personal archive policies

• Enable personal archives for mailboxes, create custom retention policy, create retention tags, apply retention policy to mailboxes, and review and modify default retention policy

Configure Lync end-user communication settings

• Turn off non-archived features for compliance, configure presence, available services, and configure per-user external communication

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Manage anti-malware and anti-spam policies

• Release quarantine, configure SPAM confidence level, configure white and black lists, and configure notifications

Recommend a mailbox migration strategy

• Staged, cutover, hybrid and IMAP

Plan for Exchange Online

• Plan client requirements for archive, manage eDiscovery, enable Legal hold, configure OWA access, and configure ActiveSync

Manage Lync global external communications settings

• Enable external access, manage domains, manage public IM connectivity, customise meeting invitations, and disable push notification service

For more information, contact one of our course advisors