Chapter 1: Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration

Welcome to the Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook. This book will share step-by-step instructions for completing basic to advanced administration tasks throughout the Office 365 ecosystem and is geared toward newer Office 365 administrators.

Many of the basic administration and tenant setup tasks are simple, but they require making decisions that are difficult to reverse or adjust later. In this first chapter, we'll cover important topics such as connecting a domain to your tenant, enabling PowerShell abilities, and migrating data to your new tenant. We'll also go over basic navigation and ongoing tasks administrators should commit to a routine.

We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:

Accessing the admin centers

Setting up the PowerShell environment

Viewing and filtering the roadmap

Discovering upcoming changes

Opening a service request

Monitoring service request status

Adding a domain

Changing the domain for users

Assigning a license to a user

Assigning a license to a group

Customizing navigation of the admin center

Personalizing your admin center home page