notes from Microsoft Offfice 365 Administration Inside Out first few chapters

Cloud has leveled the playing field between large and small organizations
Inspite of the innovation in the technology space, there is a need for demarcation of consumer and enterprise services and products.

in cloud,
MS Office is Office365
Instantmessaging is exchange
file hosting is sharepoint
communications/meetings is lync
ms project is project online
IDE is Visual Studio online

Tenant is the technology representation of client in licensing and usage terms.
no version numbers associated with Office 365. Wave is microsoft's internal term for releases.
GCC-government community cloud is G-tenant.
regulatory requirements are achievable in g-cloud.

subscription model : utilization rather than ownership
small organizations now can afford geo redundancy and disaster recovery.

Microsoft Trust Center for products
Office 365 support industry certifications and regulatory compliance standards.

migration checks: bandwidth, id manager
service descriptions document mentions what the service provides.
deployment guide
readiness toolkit

office 365 has dependency on internet to funcion unlike the earlier non-cloud products that can work even without a network or internet.
Quality of Service analysis exercise
analyze users accessing from different ways.
LAN
MAN
OWA
ActiveSync

Bandwidth(supports 100mb/s) and Latency(possible 25 mb/s) due to hops, transmission time etc.
Office 365 data centers are built in strategic locations throughout the world and are placed on tier 1 networks also known as internet backbone

ping outlook.com
note ip and use iplocation.net

Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging(MOSDAL)
 works well with windows powershell
 cmdlets
 remoting
 microsoft online services module software connects to the remote office 365 instance.
 $cred=Get-Credentiual
 Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
 Powershell Integrated Scripting Environment

 Active Directory > provides ID
 Token > mode of communication of ID
 Office 365 > application that needs ID

 Office 365 can be authentication source, or external AD
 GOP Group Policy Object
 Active dIRECTORY user and computer management console.

 directory sync tool
 domains page allows confirmation of registered domain.
 ADFS can control location based access
 common use of ADFS is to federate with B2B networks.
 Office 365 Federation gateway will acknowledge the claim token and will not produce a login prompt.
 UPN user principal name

 implementing adfs in windows azure.
 adfs accounts can be stored in windows internal database (WID) or dedicated sql server.

 SSO lifetime can be modified through web sso web lifetime setting.
 windows azure directory sync tool is a customized distribution of microsoft federated identity manager (FIM)
 direcotory synchronization creates a copy of AD accounts in Office 365
 it is a 1 way push
 AD enterprise administrator privileges