Welcome to Sele Training. I am Jason Sele and this is an introduction to
the office 365 admin Center or admin console and it is the tool that you use
to manage all of your users for office 365 in an enterprise environment.
Generally, to get this solution you need to have an enterprise agreement with
Microsoft which is a minimum of 250 users that is moving to 500 user minimum
in the future but at least for the next two or three years you can still renew
and extend that for your three-year enterprise agreement period. When you
purchase an enterprise agreement with Microsoft they actually will give you
this console, allow you to add licenses and assign those licenses to all of your
users and it's great way of managing if you've ever dealt with the microsoft
licensing in the past because it's a nightmare and trying to manage all those
individual users and purchase different components and then run around
installing them are setting up distribution
group policy settings to push that out to their desktop, what's nice about the
Office 365 Admin Center is you can assign all those licenses to the
individual users, they can log into the portal and essentially everybody gets
used to logging into the portal and then they click the install button to install
up to five licenses for each of the individual users. So the nice thing about
that is that lets them install licenses at home, at work, mobile devices, remote
any of those five different uses under that single license that you purchase
for your users. So the admin console is a great way of managing all that as a IT
admin, saves you a lot of time, gives you information into the licenses and even
if you still have to go through a third party vendor and make the purchase they
just add those licenses into the console here so that you can go ahead and add
them and assign them as needed. So on this Admin Center you'll see a menu over
here to the left that shows all the different components and how you can
manage your environment. Home shows you a dashboard where you can
take a look at the different components in a snapshot. Users is where you manage
all of your individual users in your organization and you can assign licenses
for the different components. Groups is where you manage the security groups or
distribution groups that you're used to doing in exchange if you use that
environment the past. Resources is where you set up rooms or equipment and manage
those. Billing shows you all your subscriptions and will let you add
additional licenses or view how many you have remaining and available so you can
make decisions about what you need to add and when. Support is a nice feature
Microsoft is actually, as part of the enterprise agreement, giving you the
ability to get direct support from Microsoft techs just by submitting a
support incident right here from the console and you can see your tickets in
progress and I found in our licensing environment
that we typically get a call back within the hour or maybe two hours at most and
they'll work it until it gets resolved. It's all included with your enterprise agreement
so very nice. Settings, open that up, lets you set up security privacy directory
sync information your domain so it's the general office 365 configuration area.
Setup is also where you can actually manage some products, view and edit your
domains, and this data migration lets you move bulk data to and from microsoft so
if you're trying to transfer a whole bunch of onedrive files or load a bunch
of PST files for users and it's just so huge that you don't want to try to
migrate them directly you can actually ship data to them and load it in that
way. Reports gives you the ability to view statistics on the use of your
office environment for things like skype, your email activity, instant messaging
Yammer, all those kind of components. Health gives you an idea of whether
Microsoft's having any issues in the cloud services for office 365 so you'll
see things like exchange when there's outages or problems with SharePoint or
Skype for Business, updates that didn't work right.
Those kind of things show up there and then the admin Center gives you a
separate link with a separate tab opens up for each one of these
components and it allows you to access things specific to Exchange, Skype for
Business, SharePoint etc. So that's essentially the Admin Console. I'm gonna go
ahead in future videos to show you some of the options that you have in each one
of these so stay tuned. Hey be sure to subscribe and give us a thumbs up if you
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