Microsoft 365 & Exchange Online for Beginners

Microsoft 365 is a plan of apps like Excel, Outlook, and Teams that lets you work from any location or device, with personal, business, enterprise, and education packages and security.

Learn how cloud services deliver computing over the internet, contrasted with on-premises solutions, and classify IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, with Microsoft 365 as SaaS.

Explore how Microsoft 365 offers web and desktop Office apps via subscription, plus the standalone Office versions (Office 2021/2019). See how OneDrive, automatic upgrades, and AI-powered features enhance productivity.

Explore Microsoft 365 family and personal subscriptions, with one terabyte per user and apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and OneDrive; compare with Office Home and Student 2021.

Learn to manage a Microsoft 365 family subscription, share with up to six people, and provide one terabyte per user while enabling Office installations on up to five devices.

Stop sharing Microsoft 365 subscriptions and fix license issues across personal and family packs; explore OneDrive Personal Vault security, account verification, and subscription management.

Explore the Microsoft 365 business package, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, Yammer, Teams, and Intune. Compare basic, standard, and premium plans with desktop Office apps and Azure Information Protection.

Enroll in a microsoft 365 trial by selecting a package (basic, business basic, standard, or premium) and signing up with your email to create the tenant administrator account.

Enroll in additional subscriptions within the same Microsoft 365 tenant using the admin center. Start a free trial, review licenses, and manage products like E5 in portal.office365.com.

Create a user in Microsoft 365, assign a license (including Exchange Online), and send an email via Outlook; navigate the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, manage licenses, and test domain-related setup.

Purchase and add your business domain to Microsoft 365, verify ownership with DNS records (MX, CNAME, TXT), and assign the domain to users for email.

Learn how dns translates domain names into ip addresses and how dns records enable access to 365 services, while a tenant defines your organization's boundary with a name and id.

Explore how Azure Active Directory provides identity and access management for cloud applications, centralizing user authentication and authorization across Microsoft 365 apps and third-party or custom apps.

Learn how Azure Active Directory provides identity and access management for Microsoft 365 cloud apps, and how to access it via admin.microsoft.com or ad.portal.azure.com to manage users.

Understand the four Azure Active Directory licenses—Free, Office 365 Azure AD, Premium 1, and Premium 2—and their features, including multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and how to check and purchase licenses.

Access the Exchange Online admin center from the Microsoft 365 admin center, install and import the Exchange Online management module, connect via PowerShell, and list users.

Explore mailboxes in Exchange Online, create and license Exchange users, manage application access, and delete or restore users using PowerShell and Azure AD.

Discover how to assign and manage built-in admin roles in Microsoft 365, such as global administrator, helpdesk, and global reader. Learn how least privilege and delegated administration enhance security.

Learn to set up a shared mailbox in Microsoft 365, add members, and configure read and manage, send as, and send on behalf permissions for a shared help desk inbox.

Explore Microsoft 365 groups and learn how distribution groups enable broadcast communication to a defined set of members, with owners, permissions, and open or closed join options.

Learn the differences between security groups and mail-enabled security groups in Microsoft 365, create and manage a mail-enabled security group, assign the helpdesk role, and send group emails.

Explore Microsoft 365 groups as collaboration spaces with group email, a shared workspace for conversations, files, and calendars, and dynamic membership with owners, members, and visitors.

Explore how a Microsoft 365 group creates cross-application membership across Outlook inbox, calendar, SharePoint, and more, and how Teams and channels organize collaboration with private and public channels.

Learn to manage resource mailboxes in Exchange Online by creating room mailboxes and equipment mailboxes, enabling a booking system with automatic or delegated approvals.

Learn how to manage external recipients in Microsoft Exchange Online by creating mail contacts and mail users, adding them to the global address list, and granting external access to applications.

The lecture explains mail flow in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online, covering MX records, DNS configuration, direct Office 365 delivery, SMTP gateways, and hybrid on-premises setups.

Verify domain ownership by adding a text record, configure MX and CNAME records to connect the domain to Exchange Online, and update user addresses to the new domain.

Define accepted domain and remote domain in Microsoft 365, and configure authoritative or internal relay for mail flow, plus remote domain settings like auto forward and out of office.

Explore connectors in Exchange Online, enabling secure mail flow between on-premises servers, Office 365, cloud smtp gateways, and devices like printers, with scenarios for when you need them.