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As I mentioned earlier in this course,

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there are multiple admin centers that we can use to manage the

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various workloads that make up Microsoft 365.

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These admin centers are found in the bottom left.

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If you are in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Now let's take a look at the Exchange Online admin center.

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Exchange Online was the first workload that was added

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to Microsoft 365,

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way back when

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it used to be called the Business Productivity Online Suite.

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Exchange Online is the online version of the on-premises

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product Exchange Server, which is one of the richest and

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most evolved products from the Microsoft Back Office Suite.

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Therefore, Microsoft Exchange Online is really a

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complete product.

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It has evolved and had feature parity between on-premises

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and online for many,

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many years.

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But now the online version of Microsoft Exchange is far more

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advanced than the on-premises solution.

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So the tool that we use, the Exchange Admin Center,

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looks a lot like the on-premises management tool.

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So if you have experiences managing Exchange Server,

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some of these functionalities and terminologies may seem to be very

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familiar because they are. A lot of what you manage online and what

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you manage on-premises is very similar,

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with some minor differences and tweak to adapt for the cloud.

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So the first thing we see in the Exchange Admin Center is

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the list of recipients, essentially who can receive

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email messages.

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These recipients we will look at in detail in a later video

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in this course.

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But mailboxes are essentially what make up your users.

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Groups is essentially groups of users or groups of mailboxes.

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Resources are objects that we manage through Exchange Online,

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such as a printer, a room, or a projector.

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These are resources that can be scheduled and therefore managed

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through Exchange Online.

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Contacts are representations of external

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recipients.

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So when you need to include someone that is external to your

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organization into your list of recipients,

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you create a contact for them,

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similarly to the way you would create a contact for a user

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in your own mobile device.

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Here in the Exchange Admin Center, I will then look at mail flow,

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which is how mail flows in and out of our organization.

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So we want to configure how emails are coming in,

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how they're going out and what happens to them

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while that transaction happens.

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We can create rules that can configure what happens to email

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messages when they go out.

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Can they be manipulated in a certain way,

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such as adding a footer to an email message,

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or maybe encrypting an email message,

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or adding information to email messages?

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That's done through various rules.

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Maybe we need to trace messages as they've gone in and out of our

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organization using Message Trace.

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So we will look at all of these functionalities a little bit later

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on in this course. As well,

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we have administration.

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This is done through roles.

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Of course, we assign administrative roles to users. As well,

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we can control how users use Outlook web app,

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the web version of Outlook, using policies.

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Policies allow you to control how Outlook web app is being

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accessed by your users.

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We can configure mobile devices and control mobile devices,

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such as what happens to email messages on mobile devices,

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and which type of mobile devices can connect to mailboxes. As well,

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we are able to manage public folders using the Exchange

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Admin Center.

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Public folders is a concept that has been around for

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quite some time

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in Exchange Online and, of course, Exchange on-premises.

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Before that,

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the ability to create essentially shared folders between Exchange

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mailboxes in an exchange solution.

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To do that, we create these public folders.

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Public folders are stored in public folder mailboxes.

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So we need to create mailboxes and then public folders after that.

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It is probably one of the oldest standing features of Exchange

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Server, public folders.

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It's been around since the beginning. As well,

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here we have settings that are organization-wide,

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such as the ability to share or create a relationship with

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another organization.

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So these are the key settings and functionalities in the Exchange

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Admin Center.

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And we will look at many of these as we explore Exchange Online

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throughout this course.