I’ve been asked what exactly is in Office 365 for Exchange Professionals, the eBook designed to help Exchange on-premises administrators understand how to transition workload to the cloud. Well, as the eBook has been built to be ready for distribution at Microsoft Ignite, I can tell you what is in the first version. The chapters are:
Chapter 1: An Overview of Office 365
Chapter 2: Making the decision to move to Office 365
Chapter 3: Migrating to Office 365
Chapter 4: Managing hybrid connections
Chapter 5: Managing Exchange Online
Chapter 6: Managing Exchange Online mailboxes
Chapter 7: Managing Groups
Chapter 8: Managing public folders
Chapter 9: Managing addressing
Chapter 10: Managing hybrid recipients
Chapter 11: Managing Mail Flow
Chapter 12: Managing Clients
Chapter 13: Retaining Office 365 Information
Chapter 14: Office 365 eDiscovery
Chapter 15: Information Rights Management
Chapter 16: Data Loss Prevention
Chapter 17: Office 365 Auditing
Chapter 18: Doing more with Office 365
Appendix A: Directory Synchronization
At 626 pages, we ended up with a much larger book than anticipated. Some sponsors will have copies for distribution at Microsoft Ignite, so if you attend the conference in Chicago next month, you can maybe pick up a copy. I’ll let you know the sponsors and the arrangements that they make for distribution later on in the month.
If you’re at Ignite, make sure to come by my “Bumps and Blips on the Road to Cloud Nirvana: From On-Premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365” session (BRK2164) on Thursday at 1:30PM. You never know what might happen there.
But if you’re not going to Ignite, you can head over to the book’s sales site and buy a downloadable copy. We will make copies available on May 4.
The first version is only the start of this eBook. Because Office 365 changes so quickly, we plan to make updated versions available on a regular basis. Because we have been heads-down to get the first version out the door, we have not figured out how to price updates, but we will get to that over the next week or so.
In the meantime, now that the first version is done, I think we’ll all have a little rest…
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Looking forward to reading the book. Thanks Tony!!
Any chance to have also a MOBI format?
MOBI = Amazon Kindle format. We have built one but it’s not as good as we would like because of some problems with fonts. We’re still considering what we might do.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, exactly – Kindle can’t read EPUB and PDF is, well, not my favorite one (ok, depends on the device used).
I don’t know if I’m the only one interested (hopefully not 😉 ), but I really hope you find the way to publish also that third format .
Thanks in advance!
We’re looking into it. There are some issues in dealing with Amazon that we have to resolve as well, but we’re looking at it.