Setting Up and Managing a Microsoft 365 Tenant

Microsoft 365 represents a combination of Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility offerings – providing the most complete set of SaaS technologies that Microsoft has to offer. With Microsoft 365, organizations can deploy a complete solution encompassing both devices and applications, along with applying security and compliance policies to protect the entire suite.

This lesson will help you as you plan your deployment of Microsoft 365, along with configuring and managing your tenant once it’s deployed. It also covers setting up and managing a Microsoft 365 subscription for an enterprise – including managing identities, security, compliance and the supporting technologies in the Microsoft 365 stack.

This lesson focuses mainly on setting up and managing a Microsoft 365 tenant – including the process for setting up a trial tenant, adding your own domains, and converting your tenant beyond the trial to a fully functional production environment. Now, these steps can seem to be very easy – just click a few options, answer a few questions, and you’re done. In fact, it is that easy! However, if you’re not aware of the big picture and asking some important questions along the way, you can end up painting yourself into a corner and causing problems down the road. At best, you might need to redo some things, at worst, you leave yourself with problems on your hands that might be difficult to sort out later.

After you’re set up, we’ll move on to talking about some of the things you need to consider in your day to day monitoring and management of your Microsoft 365 Tenant and the services that make it up. We’re also going to run through a few demos – showing you some of the practical steps involved, along with some tips and tricks we’ve picked up along the way.

Learning Objectives

• Set up a new Microsoft 365 tenant and subscription
• Add domains to the tenant and configure them for the various service offerings
• Perform the day to day management of your users, including managing user accounts and license assignment
• Know how to monitor the various services in your M365 tenant and have a plan in place to respond to service alerts and manage service requests

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for people who:

• Want to become a Microsoft 365 administrator
• Are preparing to take the Microsoft’s MS-100 exam

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should have a general understanding of networking & server administration as well as IT fundamentals such as DNS, Active Directory and PowerShell.