Module 1: Office 365 services overview
Lab: Office 365 services overview
Scenario
As one of the most experienced IT administrators at A. Datum Corporation, you are
responsible for Office 365 management. To start, you want to provision your Office
365 tenant so that you can evaluate some administrative tasks.
Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
Set up an Office 365 tenant.
Configure tenant options.
Note: The lab steps for this course change frequently due to updates to Office 365.
Microsoft Learning updates the lab steps frequently, so they are not available in this
manual. Your instructor will provide you with the lab documentation.
Lab setup
Estimated time: 45 minutes
Virtual machines: MT17B-WS2016-NAT, 10997B-LON-DC1, and 10997B-LON-CL1
User name: Adatum\Administrator
Password: Pa55w.rd
For this lab, you need to use the available virtual machine environment. Before you
begin the lab, if necessary, you must complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then
click Hyper-V Manager.
2. In Hyper-V Manager, click MT17B-WS2016-NAT, and then, in
the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.
4. In Hyper-V Manager, click 10997B-LON-DC1, and then, in the Actions pane,
click Start.
5. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.
6. Sign in by using the following credentials:
User name: Administrator
Password: Pa55w.rd
Domain: Adatum
7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 on 10997B-LON-CL1, and then sign in by using the
following credentials:
User name: Holly
Password: Pa55w.rd
Domain: Adatum
In all tasks:
Where you see references to Adatumyyxxxxx.onmicrosoft.com,
replace yyxxxxx with your unique Adatum number that you choose in Lab 1 -
Exercise 1, Task 1.
Exercise 1: Setting up an Office 365 lab environment
Scenario
The first step in starting the pilot deployment is to configure the Office 365 tenant.
You need to create a new tenant using
the Adatumyyxxxxx.onmicrosoft.com domain name.
Note: This lab uses a standard Office 365 trial account, not a FastTrack pilot extended
tenant account. Also, you need to create an account with a unique name in the
form: Adatumyyxxxxx.onmicrosoft.com. You can use your two primary initials
followed by a unique five-digit number. For example, AdatumAB12345.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:
1. Create an Office 365 Enterprise E5 trial subscription
2. Verify the health of services
Task 1: Create an Office 365 Enterprise E5 trial subscription
1. On LON-CL1, open Microsoft Edge, and then go to the following
URL: https://aka.ms/v2jy2f.
2. Click Free trial.
3. For Step 1, in the Welcome, let's get to know you page, complete the
following fields. Regardless of your location, use the following information:
Country: United Kingdom
First name: Holly
Last name: Spencer
Business email address: Use your new Microsoft account that you created for
this course or your personal email address.
Business phone number: Use your mobile phone number, including the
international code, for the country/region that you are really in.
Company name: A. Datum
Organization size: 50-249 people
4. For Step 2, create a unique domain for the company name to use in the
course. Use the Adatumyyxxxxx form. For the rest of the fields, use the
following information:
User name: Holly
Company name: Adatumyyxxxxx (where yyxxxxx is your unique Adatum
number)
Password: Create a password that meets the complexity requirements.
Document Holly's password.
Confirm password: Type the same password
5. For Step 3, confirm your identity by using your mobile phone. Under Send
text message, from the drop-down box, select the code for the
country/region that you are really in.
6. In the Phone number box, enter your correct mobile phone number.
7. Ensure that the Send text message option is selected, and then click Text me.
8. When you receive the confirmation text on your mobile phone, enter the code
provided into the Enter your verification code box.
9. Click Create my account.
10. Wait until the Office 365 tenant is provisioned, and then click You're ready to
go.
11. Click the Admin tile to go to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Task 2: Verify the health of services
1. Use Service health on the navigation menu on the left to display the Service
health dashboard.
2. Review any service interruption records and additional information on
the Incidents page.
Note: During Microsoft testing, on rare occasions Office 365 did not create the trial
tenant properly. As a result, the tenant did not have all the services available to it. If
this happens to you, create a new trial tenant by using a different business email
address (a Microsoft account).
3. Close Microsoft Edge.
4. If you receive a prompt, click Close all tabs.
Result: After completing this exercise, you should have successfully provisioned the
Office 365 tenant account for A. Datum Corporation.
Exercise 2: Configuring Office 365 services
Scenario
In this exercise, you will verify the configuration of your Office 365 tenant and
configure services and add-ins.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:
1. Review services and add-ins
2. Verify security and privacy settings
3. Determine current licenses
4. Update the organization profile
5. Prepare for the next module
Task 1: Review services and add-ins
1. On LON-CL1, open Microsoft Edge, and then browse
to https://portal.office.com.
2. Sign in as [email protected], where yyxxxxx is your
unique Adatum number, by using Holly's password.
3. Open Services & add-ins from the Settings menu in the Microsoft 365 admin
center.
4. Review the Cortana settings.
5. Review the Mail settings.
6. Disable the Office Store.
Task 2: Verify security and privacy settings
1. Open Security & privacy beneath the Settings node in the Microsoft 365
admin center.
2. Change the password policy to require password expiration after 42 days.
3. Review the Customer Lockbox settings.
Task 3: Determine current licenses
1. Open Licenses beneath the Billing node in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
2. Review the available licenses for the Office 365 Enterprise E5 subscription.
3. Click Subscriptions, and then review the Office 365 Enterprise E5 trial
subscription.
Task 4: Update the organization profile
1. Open Organization profile beneath the Settings node in the Microsoft 365
admin center.
2. Review the Release preferences settings.
3. Review the Manage custom themes for your organization settings.
4. Open the Provide customized help desk contact info settings.
5. Enable the Help desk card, and then enter the following information:
Custom title: A Datum Help Desk
where yyxxxxx is your unique Adatum number.
6. Save the changes.
7. Close all windows on LON-CL1, and then sign out.
Task 5: Prepare for the next module
When you have finished the lab, keep the virtual machines running for the next
module.
Result: After completing this exercise, you should have successfully verified the
configuration of your Office 365 tenant.
Question How many licenses are available in your Office 365 subscription?
Question What release track is your organization on?
