Microsoft 70-346: Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements

This course is intended for IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating the Office 365 services, including its dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies.

This course prepares you for the MS-346 certification exam.

This course provides the knowledge and understanding for some of these important job functions:

Provision Office 365

• Provision tenants
• Add and configure custom domains
• Plan a pilot

Plan and implement networking and security in Office 365

• Configure DNS records for services
• Enable client connectivity to Office 365
• Administer rights management (RM)
• Manage administrator roles in Office 365

Manage cloud identities

• Configure password management
• Manage user and security groups
• Manage cloud identities with Windows PowerShell

Implement and manage identities by using DirSync

• Prepare on-premises Active Directory for DirSync
• Set up DirSync [WAAD sync tool]
• Manage Active Directory users and groups with DirSync in place

Implement and manage federated identities (single sign-on [SSO])

• Plan requirements for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
• Install and manage AD FS servers
• Install and manage AD FS proxy servers

Monitor and troubleshoot Office 365 availability and usage

• Analyze reports
• Monitor service health
• Isolate service interruption