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Office 365 Essentials

You're reading from   Office 365 Essentials Get up and running with the fundamentals of Office 365

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788622073
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nuno Arias Silva Nuno Arias Silva
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Office 365 FREE CHAPTER 2. Fundamentals of Office 365 3. Office 365 Basic Workloads 4. Identities and Authentication 5. Configuring Office 365 6. Managing Office 365 7. Exchange Online 8. SharePoint Online 9. Skype for Business 10. Working with Microsoft Teams 11. Delve 12. Managing Workloads 13. Adopting Office 365 14. Monitoring and Support 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the rings in Office 365

Office 365 is composed of different rings. When the development team creates and updates new features, these features are first released to Ring 0, which is used by internal feature teams.

Then, when approved, they are promoted to Ring 1, which is used by the Office 365 team and so on, until they get to all customers Office 365 tenants in Ring 4.

You can always change the configuration of your tenant to target release and you will get the new features first rather than regular Office 365 tenants. By default, each tenant is set to standard release. Targeted release will get you new features first, but also not fully tested features, and you might incur small issues, so the decision of activating targeted release should be carefully taken. The following image shows the different rings in Office 365:

It is a best practice to have a separate...

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