Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Dan Usher

MCT, MCITP, MCP, MCTS

Lead Associate

Booz Allen Hamilton

This session will go into the basics of SharePoint Online tenant administration to better understand sharing capabilities inherent in the system for IT Pros to manage in a cloud platform.

With the continued mantra of doing less with more, there's a continued march toward utilizing the cloud to make use of the economies of scale. For enterprise organizations looking to transition their SharePoint systems to Microsoft's cloud offering of SharePoint Online, there's a bit of work involved to get up and operating in the cloud around provisioning, identity, directory synchronization and transition planning. During this session we will also go into the basics of SharePoint Online tenant administration to better understand sharing capabilities inherent in the system for IT Pros to manage in a cloud platform.

During this workshop we'll be working through understanding what Office 365 provides for, how to provision an Office 365 instance, setup directory and password synchronization and finally make our way to using a federated identity to authenticate.

• The basics of Office 365
• How to properly select which version works for you
• How to select the proper identity to use
• How to install and configure directory synchronization and integrate federated identity