My Office 365 Deployment Experience (Part 2)

In completion of the registration, they are sent emails regarding their access on Office 365. It includes their user name, temporary password and the portal link on where they could configure more their access on Office 365.

On the portal they should login with their email address (user name) and their temporary password.

On their first login, they will be asked to  change immediately the temporary password to their own password as part of IT security measures.

On the “Old Password” you should type your temporary password that was been stated on the email that you receive before login to the portal.

After login your created password, you may now start to setup your PC to be Office 365 capable.

First we install Microsoft Lync 2010, Click “Install ” to download and install this application to your computer.

Click “Install” to start the installation of Microsoft Lync 2010.

 

Click “Yes” to start the installation. Make sure that no Microsoft Office Applications are open to continue the installation.

After Installation, you may start already the application so it may connect to the Cloud Server.

 

Once the application has already been launch, you may click the “Sign In” button to activate the Lync 2010 account.

 

As you activated your account, it will ask for your user name and password. Your user name is your email address and your password is the one you change a while ago after accessing the portal.

 

After inputting the credentials needed to access and activate the account, you may now use the full feature of Microsoft Lync 2010. Next blog will concentrate more on this application so you may see its new features and how to use it.

Now, let setup our PC to be capable to access other features of Office 365. This should be done to access Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint Online.

Click the “Set up” button to start the installations and configuration updates for Office 365.

Enter you email address and password on the spaces given and click “Sign in” to continue the configurations and setup.

Click “Continue” to start the configuration of your PC to be Office 365 ready. As you may see, its wizard driven so you will not experience errors on setting up your PC. Even the users may do it themselves on their PC’s and specially on their laptops, very convenient on mobile users isn’t it?

After Clicking the “Continue” button, it will automatically setup/configure/update your PC and after that you will see this screen. Wait, why was my Microsoft Outlook was not configured? It ask me to do a manual configuration? As my opinion to that, maybe it assumes that you may have a existing email account and it don’t want to overwrite its configuration. But that’s me, maybe there are some explanation on that issue.

Because the wizard says that it cant be done automatically and it needed to be configured manually, I’ve open my Microsoft Outlook and started to configure the account.

Click “Next” to start the configuration. Make sure that while doing this, you are connected to the internet so it may access the account on the Cloud Server.

After the settings is been downloaded, it will configure outlook automatically. Now, you have already configured your Outlook 2010 to access Exchange Server Online.

That’s concludes the deployment of Office 365 to your PC. Now you can fully utilize the features of this new product from Microsoft.

Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool Beta

This tool provides you analysis on your on-premises environment in preparation for an Office 365 enterprise deployment.  You may download it here

The assessments that the tool could give is:

• Domains
  • Email domain discovery and number of users leveraging each domain
• User Identity and Account Provisioning
  • Statistical information
  • Active Directory schema and forest/domain functional data
  • Trusts extract (checks for multi-forest constraints)
  • Directory Synchronization
    • Pre-requisite checks
    • Attribute assessment
  • Single sign on
    • Attribute assessment
• Exchange Online
  • Statistical information
  • Public folder, public delegates, and proxyaddresses extract
  • 3^rd party and unified messaging proxyaddresses information
• Lync Online
  • Statistical information
• SharePoint Online
  • User object count assessment
• Client and End User Experience
  • Summary of domain joined machines for rich experience/SSO readiness
• Network
  • Port analysis on certain Office 365 endpoints
  • DNS records assessment

My Office 365 Deployment Experience (Part 1)

This morning when I opened my office email, I receive an email form Office 365 that I could already use my Office 365 Beta account. As I clicked the link this displays on my web browser

As per checking on the country selection, Philippines is not yet  available on the list so it could not be selected. I selected Singapore for testing reasons. The “.onmicrosoft.com” shows that Office 365 Beta allows you to be a sub domain in order to be used online.

As per completing the fields, the system will register the new account.

While it is setting up the account, I remember that it has Exchange, Lync, Office and Sharepoint and I wondered how could I configure this? After the Account Setup, this displays on my browser.

Whoa! It setups by itself! No hassles on Server Management but also on Configurations as well. System Administrators can sit back and relax while the system do the setups, how swell is that 😉

After it finishes the setup of the three servers, its time to prepare the admin and the client PC for Office 365 Preparedness.

Click the “Set up now” link before installing because its prepares the PC for Office 365 Experience.

When you finish the installation already, its time to install Microsoft Lync 2010 and configure your Microsoft Office to work with Office 365.

The Microsoft Lync 2010 installation is available on both 32 and 64 bit platform and there is no configuring necessary. After installing the Microsoft Lync 2010, click the “Set up” button located on the bottom of the web page. It prepares your Microsoft Office installation for Office 365. Only Office 2007 and higher are allowed to be updated for Office 365 access.

After all of the applications and configuration has finished you will be directed to the HOME Screen on where you could access your OWA or Outlook Web Access, Office Web Apps and your Sharepoint Team and Web Site.

Trying the parts of the home page and using the Office Web apps, I’ve found out that the documents that been done in the Web Apps is been stored on the Sharepoint Team Site where you could share it with other team members or make it act as your personal file storage.

In order for others to use the cool features of Office 365, we will now add users and how would they access on it.

This is the admin screen on where we could add/remove users, reset passwords, configure Microsoft Lync and Outlook and manage Sharepoint Team and Web Sites.

For adding users, Click the “add new users” link for you to see this screen.

After completing the form, click “Next” to continue.

Assigning permissions will allow you to set if you want to make the current user to have administrative rights and the location will check on any licensing restrictions on using the system.

This allows you to manage on what application will the user may access.  After clicking the “Next” button, it will assign proper licenses to the user.

After it assigns the licenses, it will send the login information to the user by indicating the email for it to be send to.

Click “Create” button to start the process.

There you have it, this is how to add a user to Office 365. It just making a user on email while just having more that email.

The Sharepoint part of Office 365 shows the Typical screen as same as the Sharepoint on deployed on local servers. It is also viewable online.

That’ s all for now.