02 | A Changing Admin Interface Christian Buckley | Office 365 MVP, Managing Director at GTconsult Craig Tarr | MCTS, MCP, Co-Founder and COO at GTconsult

Module Overview Changes to admin roles and responsibilities The new SharePoint Online admin experience Differences between Central Admin and SPO admin

Managing SharePoint Online

Impacts of Office 365 In some ways, it simplifies Governance SharePoint and Exchange are primarily affected Biggest impact Office 365 has is on sizing limits Data sprawl must be watched more carefully in Office 365 to avoid hitting capacity limits

Tactical Team Responsibilities Operations team impacts: Nightly backups DBA role largely eliminated Active Directory role could change No equipment to support Support team impacts Service Level Agreements Development team impacts: No more full-trust code

Management Shell SharePoint Online Management Shell is a Windows PowerShell module that you can use to efficiently manage SharePoint Online users, sites, site collections, and organizations You can find a list of available cmdlets here (TechNet): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161388(v=office.15).aspx

Simple mode Admin experience When you’re in Simple mode in the SharePoint Online admin center, the left-hand navigation shows only site collections, user profiles, and settings.

Advanced mode

Streamlined Admin tasks Easier to add users, auto assign available licenses, reset passwords, and manually set passwords (instead of auto generated)

Moving from central Admin to SPO Admin Demo Moving from central Admin to SPO Admin

Summary Roles and tools have dramatically changed Farm-level administration is gone, and the UI has been streamlined for common tasks

Up Next Module 3 will walk through some of the basic admin capabilities