Provisioning Office 365

Question 1

What can you do within the O365 admin portal?

Answer 1

Create users, assign licenses, create groups, run reports and manager services such as exchange and SharePoint.

Question 2

What sign in methods/ models does O365 support?

Answer 2

Online Identity (Account identity)
Synchronised identity
Federated Identity

Question 3

Where is an online identity (account identity) account created?

Answer 3

Created through O365 admin center.

Therefore no on-premise account required to manage users. All object management, authentication and authorisation will be done in the cloud.

Question 4

What is a synchronised identity?

Answer 4

Accounts that are based on-premise directory such as an AD.

Synchronised between O365 and On-premise.

Question 5

What is a federated identity?

Answer 5

Single sign on

Identities sychronised from on-prem directory to O365, user management done at on-prem AD. Users will be authenticated in on-premise Ad to access a cloud application via federated authentication via ADFS for SSO.

Question 6

What is the importance of region when creating an O365 tennant?

Answer 6

Data is located in the region where the account is created. Therefore will be affected by the laws within that country.
Billing currency is done by region.
Billing cost is based on region.
Determines the features and functionalies available.

Question 7

Can you change the region of your O365 tenant?

Answer 7

No! Region can no be changed if you want to use the same tenant name you would have to delete it and wait 90 days before creating a new one.
However if an organisation has locations in multiple countries it is possible to enable Multi-Geo capabilities. This is useful in a scenario where a country has had its laws change and you want to reduce impact to users.

Question 8

What naming convention do all tenant names share in O365?

Answer 8

.Onmicrosoft.com

Question 9

What is the term end date of an O365 subscription?

Answer 9

Expiration date for the current subscription.

Question 10

What domains are accepted by O365?

Answer 10

.com .org .net
All of the main domain are accepted.
There are few domains which need to be checked before purchasing if it has an unconventional domain.

Question 11

How many domain are supported in O365?

Answer 11

You can have a total of 900 domains (including the Onmicrosoft domain). But you need to verify ownership for all of them.

Question 12

How many default domains can you have?

Answer 12

1

Question 13

What is a FQDN?

Answer 13

Fully qualified domain name. Is the complete domain name for a specific computer or host on the internet. Consists of two parts:
Host name
Domain Name
eg. mymail.somecollege.edu
The hostname is mymail
Host is located within the domain somecollege.edu
Top level domain is edu.

Question 14

How do you confirm ownership of your domain?

Answer 14

Microsoft can verify your domain if you enter your credentials even if its from a third party such as GoDaddy.

Question 15

Why should you plan a pilot?

Answer 15

Create your own processes.
Find hidden issues
Find areas where users may require education.
Create evangelists to spread the hype throughout the business.
Feedback!

Question 16

Is there a pilot/ test area included in the O365 tenant?

Answer 16

All pilots have to take place in your subscription and the be over to production. There is no separate tenant for this.

Question 17

What percentage of an organisation should be included in a pilot test?

Answer 17

Roughly 5-10% from different departments within the business.
These should be FTEs (Full time employees).
They should be trained or have knowledge of the software or product you are asking them to test.

Question 18

What do you need to take into consideration before a migration?

Answer 18

Migration object:
Mailboxes/ Exchange
Microsoft Office
SharePoint sites
Instant messaging (SFB)
• Email
• Contact > May not need to bring this over during a pilot.
• Distribution lists > May not need to bring this over during a pilot.
Rooms > May not need to bring this over during a pilot.

Question 19

What does the O365 readiness tool do?

Answer 19

Runs in the browser and download O365 assistant to do checks on:
Network
Domains
Computer Settings
SharePoint
Office

Question 20

How many steps are there in a test plan?

Answer 20

9
Determine Goals
Inventory of current enviroment
Fix blockers
Create O365 tenant
Choose features and functionalities
Determine Pilot group
Add pilot group users
Give pilot user documents on how to use O365
Receive feedback

Question 21

What is a SPF record?

Answer 21

Sender Policy Framework an email authentication method designed to detect forged sender addresses in emails, a technique often used in phishing and email spam. SPF allows the receiver to check that an email claiming to come from a specific domain comes from an IP address authorised by that domains admin.

It tells the receiver the to trust that an email from your domain is genuine as long as it come from one of the IPs / DNS names in the record.

Question 22

Does synchronised identity have SSO?

Answer 22

Password Hash can be synced so that users use the same password.
Although users have the same password on-premise and in O365 users will have the same identity but will have to sign in every time when accessing On-premise and O365 applications as there is no SSO experience.

Question 23

How do you add a default domain on O365?

Answer 23

Login to O365 Admin Portal https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home -> Setup -> Domains -> Add a Domain -> enter your domain name -> Verify the domain by creating a TXT record -> Setup Online Services -> Update the DNS records.

Question 24

Whats one benefit of a cloud identity when setting up sub domains?

Answer 24

Sub domain addition will be automatically verified. But the DNS records required for the enabled services should to be created by you.

Question 25

What should you not do if you have a sub domain?

Answer 25

If you have a requirement to add a sub domain, do not setup Microsoft to manage your DNS by creating NS records.

Question 26

What is the powershell command for new federated domain?

Answer 26

New-MsolFederatedDomain -DomainName support.Avan.com

Question 27

What do you need to take into consideration pre deployment?

Answer 27

• Need to be aware of legacy, end of life or discontinued dependencies.
○ As these may need to be upgraded
• Out of scope applications which aren’t needed anymore. E.g. Microsoft publisher
• Restricted applications
• CPU architecture. (32/64bit)
Visio and project compatibility
• You can’t have the same version of a software using different installation methods.
• You can’t install two products that both use a click to run installation but the product are different version. E.g. Vision 2013(retail) and Visio pro 2016 (office 365).