About This Course

This section provides a brief description of the course, audience, suggested prerequisites, and
course objectives.

Course Description
This course is an intensive and in-depth look at how to manage services Office 365, and in
particular, how to manage identities, both in the cloud, and in situations where Office 365 is
synchronized with on-premises Active Directory or where additional single-sign on (SSO) has
been deployed.

Each module focuses on a specific area of Office 365, except for Modules 5 and 6, which
cover the highly interrelated areas of Domain Name System (DNS) and Exchange Online. The
modules start with the simpler areas and move on to more complex areas, such as Exchange
Online migration, directory synchronization, and single-sign on (SSO) with Active Directory
Federation Services (AD FS).

Note: This first release (A) MOC version of course 20346A has been developed on
Office 365. Office 365 is subject to a rolling series of updates, which may result in
changes to the user interface since the course was written. Microsoft Learning will
release an updated B version of this course after the initial delivery of the course.

Course Scenario
The scenario in this course provides the framework for the practical labs that reinforce the
knowledge covered in the modules. Hence, the scenario forms a linking narrative that explains
what you are being asked to carry out labs.

Lucerne Publishing is a global media and printing corporation that owns a number of
subsidiary companies, including Litware Inc, Proseware Inc, and the Graphic Design Institute.
The group has just under 2,000 employees around the world and provides stories for
newspapers, prints novels, licenses and creates and distributes digitally signed artwork for
publication purposes.
The organization is moving to Office 365 to provide a more scalable business model that
enables employees, authors and illustrators to collaborate together and be more effective at
selling their work globally.

For tax reasons, the organizations headquarters is in Berne in Switzerland, where the majority
of its permanent staff work. However, it also has regional headquarters in the major continents
and a number of content creators who work from home.

Hence, the customer will start off by managing user accounts in the cloud, then discover that
there are too many account changes happening, so they move to DirSync. Then they find that
they need to implement enterprise search in hybrid SharePoint, so they have to implement
single sign-on (SSO) through Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).

The scenario implements the Office 365 FastTrack deployment approach, as covered in
Course 10968B: Designing for Office 365 Architecture.

Lab Environment
In a first for LeX IT Professional courses, the virtual machines that make up the lab
environment will be hosted on Windows Azure, rather than running locally. This arrangement
enables each student to have a fixed public IP address, thus enabling the advanced
connectivity scenarios later in the labs. In the scenario, the VMs are all running in the Lucerne
Publishing datacenter, which is at a remote location from the Headquarters of the business.

The overall configuration will be as follows:

Platform and Configuration
The Windows Azure images will all be Windows Server 2012. Servers will include:

Active Directory domain controller, DNS, Certificate Authority

Exchange Server 2013/SQL Server 2012 (for AD FS configuration database)

2 x AD FS server in fault-tolerant farm

AD FS Proxy

In addition, there will be two domain-joined client VMs in Windows Azure, which are
Windows Server 2012 with the Desktop Experience enabled. In the classroom, there will be
one workgroup-based Windows 8 client VM.

Audience
This course is intended for the following two audiences:
Student Prerequisites
This course requires that you meet the following prerequisites:

Knowledge:

o Completion of Clinic 40041 or equivalent technical knowledge.

o Cloud-based service concepts

o Overview of Office 365 and its component services

o Active Directory Directory Service

o TCP/IP network routing

o Domain Name Services (DNS)

o X.509 Certificates

o Firewall ports

Experience:

o Using Windows PowerShell

 o Administering Office 365 with Office 365 Admin Center

o Working with virtual machines

o Using Remote Desktop

Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:

Prepare for the Office 365 Pilot and check the customer environment

Configure DNS settings to support migration of customer domains to Office 365 and
service provision.

Manage users, groups and licenses in Office 365

Administer administrator accounts in Office 365, manage passwords and apply Rights
Management Services

Plan for and manage the deployment of Office 365 clients

Plan to migrate to or co-exist with Exchange Online

Administer Exchange Online by configuring anti-spam and anti-malware settings

Plan, set up and configure SharePoint Online to meet business requirements

Plan and configure Lync Online to meet business requirements

Plan and implement Directory synchronization with password synchronization for on-
premise account administration

Plan, implement and configure Active Directory Federation Services for single sign-on

Monitor Office 365 and generate reports to ensure compliance with service level
agreements

Course Outline
The course outline is as follows:

Module 1: Preparing for Office 365

Module 2: Managing Users, Groups, and Licenses

Module 3: Administering Office 365

Module 4: Planning and Managing Clients

Module 5: Planning DNS and Exchange Migration

Module 6: Planning Exchange Online and Configuring DNS Records

Module 7: Administering Exchange Online

Module 8: Configuring SharePoint Online

Module 9: Configuring Lync Online

Module 10: Implementing Directory Synchronization

Module 11: Implementing Active Directory Federation Services

Module 12: Monitoring Office 365

Course Materials

The following materials are included with your kit:

Course Handbook: a succinct classroom learning guide that provides the critical technical
information in a crisp, tightly-focused format, which is essential for an effective in-class
learning experience.
 Lessons: guide you through the learning objectives and provide the key points that are
critical to the success of the in-class learning experience.

Labs: provide a real-world, hands-on platform for you to apply the knowledge and skills
learned in the module.

Module Reviews and Takeaways: provide on-the-job reference material to boost

knowledge and skills retention.

Lab Answer Keys: provide step-by-step lab solution guidance.

Course Companion Content: searchable, easy-to-browse digital content with

integrated premium online resources that supplement the Course Handbook.

Modules: include companion content, such as questions and answers, detailed demo steps
and additional reading links, for each lesson. Additionally, they include Lab Review
questions and answers and Module Reviews and Takeaways sections, which contain the
review questions and answers, best practices, common issues and troubleshooting tips with
answers, and real-world issues and scenarios with answers.

Resources: include well-categorized additional resources that give you immediate access to
the most current premium content on TechNet, MSDN, or Microsoft Press.

Note: For this version of the Courseware on Prerelease Software (specify RC0/Beta
etc.), Companion Content is not available. However, the Companion Content will
be published when the next (B) version of this course is released, and students who
have taken this course will be able to download the Companion Content at that time
from the http://www.microsoft.com/learning/companionmoc site. Please check
with your instructor when the B version of this course is scheduled to release to
learn when you can access Companion Content for this course.

Student Course files: includes the Allfiles.exe, a self-extracting executable file that
contains all required files for the labs and demonstrations.
 Note: For this version of the Courseware on Prerelease Software (specify RC0/Beta
etc.), Allfiles.exe file is not available. However, this file will be published when the
next (B) version of this course is released, and students who have taken this course
will be able to download the Allfiles.exe at that time from the
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/companionmoc site.

Course evaluation: at the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to complete an
online evaluation to provide feedback on the course, training facility, and instructor.

To provide additional comments or feedback on the course, send an email to

support@mscourseware.com. To inquire about the Microsoft Certification Program, send
an email to mcphelp@microsoft.com.

Virtual Machine Environment

This section provides the information for setting up the classroom environment to support the
business scenario of the course.

Virtual Machine Configuration

In this course, you will use virtual machines hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V and in
Windows Azure to perform the labs.

Important: At the end of each lab, you must NOT close the virtual machines, either
locally or in Windows Azure. However, you can disconnect the Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) client session from the Windows Azure virtual machines at the end of
each day.

The following table shows the role of each virtual machine that is used in this course:

Virtual Operating Role Hosted in Domain or

machine System workgroup

LUC-CL1 Windows 8 Used to simulate a typical client Workgroup

computer and to connect to Office 365
 Virtual Operating Role Hosted in Domain or
machine System workgroup
and the Lucerne Publishing datacenter Hyper-V on
environment local
computer

LUC-DC1 Windows 2012 Provides Active Directory Directory Windows Domain (Domain
Services and Domain Name Service Azure controller)
(DNS).

LUC-EX1 Windows 2012 Runs Exchange Server for on- premises Windows Domain
email Azure

LUC-SV1 Windows 2012 AD FS server Windows Domain

Azure

LUC-SV2 Windows 2012 AD FS server Windows Domain

Azure

LUC-SV3 Windows 2012 AD FS Proxy Windows Workgroup

Azure

LUC-CL2 Windows 2012 Emulates domain-joined Windows 8 Windows Domain

client Azure

LUC-CL3 Windows 2012 Emulates domain-joined Windows 8 Windows Domain

client Azure

Course Files
The files associated with the labs in this course are located in the
<install_folder>\Labfiles\LabXX folder on the student computers.

Classroom Setup
Each classroom computer will have the same virtual machine configured in the same way.

Course Hardware Level

To ensure a satisfactory student experience, Microsoft Learning requires a minimum
equipment configuration for trainer and student computers in all Microsoft Certified Partner
for Learning Solutions (CPLS) classrooms in which Official Microsoft Learning Product
courseware is taught.
 Hardware level 5