Practical Powershell Office 365 Exchange Online

A practical guide to using PowerShell with Exchange Online. Aimed at those who want to grow their skills with PowerShell while learning to use it effectively with Exchange Online.

With this book, you will learn to utilize PowerShell to report, managed and enhance your experience with Exchange Online. Covering the nuances of a cloud based Exchange environment, we put practical – real world examples to work. Edited by Dave Stork who is an nine-time Microsoft MVP (Exchange and Office 365).

Learn the art of leveraging PowerShell to automate Office 365 repetitive tasks About This Book Master the fundamentals of PowerShell to automate Office 365 tasks. Easily administer scenarios such as user management, reporting, cloud services, and many more. A fast-paced guide that leverages PowerShell commands to increase your productivity. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at sys admins who are administering office 365 tasks and looking forward to automate the manual tasks. They have no knowledge about PowerShell however basic understanding of PowerShell would be advantageous. What You Will Learn Understand the benefits of scripting and automation and get started using Powershell with Office 365 Explore various PowerShell packages and permissions required to manage Office 365 through PowerShell Create, manage, and remove Office 365 accounts and licenses using PowerShell and the Azure AD Learn about using powershell on other platforms and how to use Office 365 APIs through remoting Work with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online using PowerShell Automate your tasks and build easy-to-read reports using PowerShell In Detail While most common administrative tasks are available via the Office 365 admin center, many IT professionals are unaware of the real power that is available to them below the surface. This book aims to educate readers on how learning PowerShell for Office 365 can simplify repetitive and complex administrative tasks, and enable greater control than is available on the surface. The book starts by teaching readers how to access Office 365 through PowerShell and then explains the PowerShell fundamentals required for automating Office 365 tasks. You will then walk through common administrative cmdlets to manage accounts, licensing, and other scenarios such as automating the importing of multiple users,assigning licenses in Office 365, distribution groups, passwords, and so on. Using practical examples, you will learn to enhance your current functionality by working with Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online using PowerShell. Finally, the book will help you effectively manage complex and repetitive tasks (such as license and account management) and build productive reports. By the end of the book, you will have automated major repetitive tasks in Office 365 using PowerShell. Style and approach This step by step guide focuses on teaching the fundamentals of working with PowerShell for Office 365. It covers practical usage examples such as managing user accounts, licensing, and administering common Office 365 services. You will be able to leverage the processes laid out in the book so that you can move forward and explore other less common administrative tasks or functions.

Written for the IT professional and business owner, this book provides the business and technical insight necessary to migrate your business to the cloud using Microsoft Office 365. This is a practical look at cloud migration and the use of different technologies to support that migration. Numerous examples of cloud migration with technical migration details are included. Cloud technology is a tremendous opportunity for an organization to reduce IT costs, and to improve productivity with increased access, simpler administration and improved services. Those businesses that embrace the advantages of the cloud will receive huge rewards in productivity and lower total cost of ownership over those businesses that choose to ignore it. The challenge for those charged with implementing Microsoft Office 365 is to leverage these advantages with the minimal disruption of their organization. This book provides practical help in moving your business to the Cloud and covers the planning, migration and the follow on management of the Office 365 Cloud services. What you’ll learnOverview of Microsoft Office 365's operation and usage for any size enterpriseMethods of planning and migration Office 365 management best practices Using Office 365 SharePoint to improve business processes Troubleshooting Office 365 installations Using Compliance, eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention tools Office 365-site management best practices for IT administrators and business owners Who this book is for Small-enterprise IT professionals and business owners who have the admin responsibilities for their business-IT needs. These people need refined reference information on basic set-up and configuration for their Office 365 installations, as well as best-practice-driven instruction on managing and troubleshooting their systems. Table of Contents Chapter 1: What is Office 365 (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 2: Using Office 365 (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 3: Planning and Deployment (Author: Don Crawford) Chapter 4: Setup and Migration (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 5: SharePoint Administration (Author Don Crawford) Chapter 6: Building Your Website (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 7: Windows Intune Administration (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 8: Office 365 Administration Guide Enterprise (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 9: Office 365 Compliance and Data Loss Prevention (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 10:Exchange Online Protection Administration (Author Matt Katzer) Chapter 11: DirSync, ADFS, Single Sign-On and Exchange Federation (Author Matt Katzer) Appendix A: Glossary of Terms

A practical guide to using PowerShell with Exchange Server 2016. Aimed at those who want to grow their skills with PowerShell while learning to use it effectively with Exchange 2016. The Second Edition of the book adds 100+ pages of brand new material.

Expert advice for Office 365 and Exchange Online right at your fingertips. Practical and precise, this hands-on guide with ready answers is designed for architects, administrators, engineers and others working with Office 365 and Exchange Online. If you're an IT Pro responsible for configuring, managing and maintaining Office 365 and Exchange Online, start with this well-organized and authoritative resource. Inside, you'll find expert insights, tips, tricks and workarounds that will show you how to master Office 365 and Exchange Online in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, techniques, commands and functions. Topics include establishing remote sessions with Office 365 and Exchange Online; creating and licensing user accounts; adding mailboxes to accounts; connecting to Office 365, Exchange Online and Windows Azure using PowerShell; creating and using contacts; adding equipment, room and other special purpose mailboxes; managing delivery, permissions and storage; managing groups for sharing and collaboration; configuring mail support for Outlook and Outlook Web App; customizing Office 365 and Exchange Online security; and many more topics essential for administration. Not only will this informative training manual help you become familiar with many new ideas, it'll help you master Office 365 and Exchange Online essentials in the shortest amount of time possible. After completing your Office 365 and Exchange Online journey with this in-depth guide, you will be ready to support Office 365 and Exchange Online regardless of whether you want to work with the graphical interface of Windows PowerShell. As you will soon learn, Office 365 is versatile, flexible and highly customizable, allowing you to personalize the product to meet your needs. The focused information you need to solve problems and get the job done.