Ben Curry - From IT Pro to Cloud Pro Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Ben Curry
Brian Laws

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Copyright 2016 by Yuri Diogenes, Jeff Gilbert, Robert Mazzoli

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016941108
ISBN: 978-1-5093-0414-1

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I dedicate this book to my family, Kimberly, Madison, and Bryce. They gave up time with Hubby B and Daddy to allow this book to make it to you. I love you all as high as the sky!

BEN CURRY

I dedicate this book to my incredible wife (Kathy) and kids (Daniel, Benjamin, and Isabella) for supporting me, giving me up for so long, picking up my slack, and loving me through all of it. They are my greatest blessing.

BRIAN LAWS

From the beginning of this project, Brian and I wanted to create a book that would highlight how IT Pros would need to become Cloud Pros. At the same time, we wanted to give newer Microsoft Office 365 professionals a solid guide for implementation. We knew this book couldnt be a comprehensive guide, or it would turn into a large volume that would soon be outdated. Instead, we wanted to keep the book fresh and relevant, and only discuss topics that arent likely to change or are brand new. Where technologies are likely to change, we referenced the best starting points for you, the reader. Some topics are very technical in nature and highlight the technical skill needed to transition from IT Pro to Cloud Pro. Others, such as migration, are more process-focused and underscore the need for Cloud Pros to be aware of proper project planning and methodologies. The cloud requires us to be both technical and business savvy.

Although its focused on IT Pros, this book is for anyone who is responsible for designing, configuring, implementing, or managing an Office 365 deployment. This book will help you understand what your team is up against when it comes to your Microsoft SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, or hybrid deployment. Also, it will discuss additional technologies and concepts that underlie Office 365 but arent readily apparent, such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Security & Compliance, and lots of Windows PowerShell. However, this book rarely issues prescriptive guidanceyou should use the online Microsoft resources for that. Our goal is to help you think through the various design points so that you can make the right decisions for your company.

This book assumes you have a working knowledge of SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online administration, or that you have access to that information. It also assumes you have a working knowledge of Office 365 fundamentals, such as how to work with users and navigate the administration centers. We assume you understand most networking concepts, such as DNS, firewalls, routing, and proxy servers, along with the how-to of those concepts. Newer areas of technology (many of which many IT Pros lack experience with or are weak in) are covered in more technical detail than other, better-known topics.

Finally, we often deep dive into a single, specific area to show the logic of being a Cloud Pro. Because there isnt room in any book to dive deeply into every area of Office 365, you should pay attention to how, in these deep dives, we go about solving problems and not just focus on how we solve that specific problem.