Microsoft 365 Setup and Basic Administration
Welcome to the second edition of Microsoft 365 Administration Cookbook. This comprehensive guide is designed to equip you with step-by-step instructions for navigating the spectrum of administration tasks within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Tip
Due to this book’s nature as a cookbook, you do not need to read it sequentially. You can jump around to recipes and subjects of interest throughout the book.
The initial stages of administration and tenant configuration might seem straightforward, yet they often involve critical decisions whose impact is challenging to reverse or modify at a later stage. This chapter will delve into essential topics, such as domain connection to your tenant, activation of PowerShell capabilities, and licensing users so they can begin to take advantage of all that Microsoft 365 has to offer your organization. Additionally, we will introduce fundamental navigation techniques and the routine tasks every administrator should adopt to maintain an efficient Microsoft 365 environment.
We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:
- Accessing the admin centers
- Setting up PowerShell
- Viewing and filtering the Microsoft 365 roadmap
- Discovering upcoming changes via Microsoft 365 Message center
- 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
