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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.micr
osoft.com/en-us/libr
ary/fp161388(v=offic
e.15).
aspx

Simple mode Admin experience

When youre 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)

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

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