Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 Edition):

The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft’s Cloud Office System

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Why buy separate books to learn about Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, eDiscovery, Information Protection, Compliance, and PowerShell? Office 365 for IT Pros covers all these topics and much more.

Intensely practical and offering the most up-to-date coverage of its topics, Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) is the eleventh yearly release in a series first released at the Ignite conference in May 2015. This text is essential reading if you want to maximize your use of Microsoft 365. Because of the large number of updates Microsoft releases monthly for Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive for Business, and the rest of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, we publish a new book every month for our subscribers to download and enjoy. It’s the equivalent of getting a completely up-to-date book every month.

Your package includes the main Office 365 for IT Pros eBook and a separate eBook about Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph. Both books are updated monthly, The latest updates are from 1 November 2024. We’re currently at monthly update #112, so we think we’ve mastered this process!

We release the books in both EPUB and PDF formats. Many of our readers convert the EPUB version to MOBI to read the book on Amazon Kindle devices.

Hundreds of Updates Annually

Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, acknowledges that Microsoft ships hundreds of updates for Office 365 apps every year. Depending on what licenses are owned by a tenant, a tenant administrator might have to cope with seven hundred individual changes annually. Until we publish the next edition, your subscription allows you to download monthly updates to keep pace with developments in Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Planner, Teams, and more, meaning that Office 365 for IT Pros continues to be a valuable reference long after you first read it. To give some insight into the volume of changes we process, the Office 365 for IT Pros team processed over 450 major updates during the lifetime of the 2024 edition.

Subscribers can download the latest files from their Gumroad account or by using the link in the receipt emailed to them on purchase. For more information, see our FAQ. Full details of changes made to the book are in our change log.

Tracking Cloud Developments

Written by a team of highly experienced authors, most of whom are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) is a practical, hands-on reference, based on years of hard-won experience acquired from working on projects since Microsoft launched Office 365 in June 2011. Because we keep an eye on what Microsoft does, you don’t have to worry about making decisions based on outdated material – we do the work for you. We explain how the technology works and why it works as it does, including when new technology like Copilot for Microsoft 365 comes along.

And because we’re always up-to-date, Office 365 for IT Pros is totally unlike any printed technical reference you’ve ever used.

The Massive Scale of Microsoft Cloud Services

In October 2023, Microsoft reported that they have sold over 400 million paid seats for Office 365 (enterprise plans). At the same time, Teams had 320 million monthly active users. Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) includes in-depth coverage of essential business productivity features such as Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, Stream, Planner, Power Automate, Power Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Viva Engage, and OneDrive for Business. You’ll learn about the Microsoft Purview solutions like eDiscovery, data lifecycle management (retention), and data loss prevention. We explain how to exploit the audit log to understand what’s really happening inside a tenant. A chapter on Microsoft Information Protection teaches you how to protect messages and documents with sensitivity labels.

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  1. The Microsoft 365 Ecosystem and Office 365
  2. Managing Identities
  3. Managing Tenants
  4. Managing Users
  5. Managing Exchange Online
  6. Managing Mailflow
  7. Managing SharePoint Online
  8. Managing Microsoft 365 Tasks
  9. Managing Video
  10. Managing Groups
  11. Teams Architecture and Structure
  12. Managing Teams
  13. Managing Teams Voice
  14. Managing Clients
  15. Managing Devices with Intune
  16. Managing Compliance
  17. Managing eDiscovery
  18. Managing Data Loss Prevention
  19. Managing Information Protection
  20. Managing Reporting and Auditing
  21. Managing Power Platform
  22. Sponsor content
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