Implementing Office 365

To start implementing Office 365, you will first need to set up an environment. As described in Chapter 2, Fundamentals of Office 365, you can use a trial tenant and later add final licenses to it, or you can create a new tenant for the project.

First, you need to set up the tenant, and there are a few basic steps to do this.

Adding a domain to Office 365

Verify your domain:

1. Sign in to Office 365 and go to the setup wizard at http://portal.office.com
2. Choose Setup on the Office 365 Admin center to start the wizard
3. Enter the domain name you want to use (such as yourdomainname.com):

4. You can also go through the Admin menu and navigate to Setup | Domains:

5. Add your domain name (for example, yourdomainname...