Microsoft 365 The Absolute Beginner's Guide for Admins

[@mustafanyaz1546]

The best video on the internet that explains MS-365

[@udcentrepreneur]

Finally an excellent and patient instructor that understands that some people are starting from square one!!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thank you 👍😊

[@phatphunkyphunda]

This was very well executed. It was a very good listen, very well paced and thorough. I also like the fact that Andy goes through the comments and acknowledges them, which shows how much he appreciates feedback from viewers. Keep it up. You have gained yourself a new subscriber.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thank you most kindly sir appreciate that👍🙂

[@hemek]

Really helpful to get a refresher on what is available in MS365 without having access to it. Found this really useful to kick the old noodle into gear about what you can do in the different admin centres

[@joshuaokonta6888]

Thanks so much Andy! I really wish I met you years back on KZbin, it would have made a lot of difference in my journey as a MS Cloud admin. Kindly make more videos on MS 365 from this beginners' stage to advance, if that works for you Once again, thank you for sharing your immense knowledge with us!

[@ilkeryetistirici7512]

I started my Cloud engineering career and trying to improve myself on Microsoft systems and I can sincerely say that it's been such a great video to learn the concept of the 365 admin portal. Also very beneficial to learn the concept of the tools as well. Congrats. I'm looking forward to watch the next videos.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Awesome thanks so much😊

[@FrancoisHeunis-h9y]

Hi Andy, I just love your KZbin channels. Thanks so much for putting in so much effort and your personal time making all of this available to individuals such as myself. Your content is always top notch and super, super useful and accurate.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thanks so much to appreciate that👍😊

[@andyturner4225]

As a recent absolute beginner, finding my way around the portals wasn't too much of an issue. However, trying to decipher which licenses were required so that I could predict costs and work up a budget was far more frustrating. It's all very easy when you already have lots of licenses available.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Hi Andy I completely agree. Licensing can be a nightmare. One great website is M365maps.com check it out.

[@ChristopherNealBUSHIDO49ERS]

This. Was. AWESOME!!!!! Thank you so much for this, Mr. Malone! ❣

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome thanks so much

[@Cabio325]

Hey Andy! Fantastic video my friend!!!! Well explained and in a logical order. I have learned a lot. Will dig KZbin for more of your videos 🙂!!!

[@7azblast7]

You are a Life Saver!!! True professional. Thank you.

[@sateeshm2397]

Glad I came across your channel. You made it sound very simple. Thank you!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

My pleasure thanks

[@christopherramos8263]

Great video and you explain it in plain English, well done

[@donaldraickett2977]

Thank you for your excellent presentation. This was very helpful.

[@fytubevw]

Loved the description of 3 distinct eras; from IT's "industrial revolution", to mobile, and now cloud. Next steps is also coming. I see something along this; devices will not disappear, but they will morph into more embedded forms. Also fixed ambient IT will be more prevalent, in buildings etc. The fourth era will definitely be interesting to see.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Absolutely, and it’s very exciting. Thanks for that, I really appreciate it, Andy

[@memegodazkaban1358]

Got a assigment to work with M365 from work as part of education, and i feel this video is amazing and helped explain a lot.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Awesome thanks

[@GaryWilliams-p8n]

Absolutely amazing, so much to absorb. Andy you are total Microsoft Rock Star!!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thanks very much Gary👍😊

[@howardbonds5106]

OMG! This is the best study Material ever! Thank you so much! Bless you sir!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You're very welcome!

[@laychinglim3680]

The best MCT I have ever met! Thank you for making the video interesting and easy to understand

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Aw thanks so much :-)

[@philp7844]

Great content as always, thank you. I'd love to see your thoughts on best practices and considerations around securing M365, ie: an Ultimate Guid to Securing an M365 Environment. For me, the out of the box M365 sharing/collaboration settings are too relaxed and many new customers don't realise what standard users can do by default (ie: create Teams, Sharepoint sites, invite guests, share data externally, etc etc) until its too late. They then have the headache of undoing all this and adjusting global settings in a live environment.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Great suggestion I'll see what I can do :-)

[@vanamnagesh-jk8gf]

Splendid presentation,Andy.

[@robbiggs2633]

Absolutely brilliant content. Thank you for the video, it's very helpful 😊

[@SwarupOvoFarm]

Hey Andy,Thanks for the videos. We are new to MS 365 . I learnt many things from your video

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome and m delighted to hear that👍😊

[@ahirnimesh09]

more videos require like this❤️

[@yovbakbon]

Fantastic, thanks for this lesson

[@motunrayomodupeotolorin4954]

Very educative video. Thanks Andrew

[@imreallith129]

Thank you very much Esteemed Sir Andy.

[@jamilbarbhuiya60]

Thank you sir, It was Greate for beginner's

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You are most welcome

[@harryjeganathan5276]

Excellent video. Thank you very much.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You are welcome!

[@gustavonunesferreiradasilv4278]

Thank you friend! You are so good in explain complex things in a easy way

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thank you 🤗👍

[@stevet5629]

Thanks Andy, excellent topic and presentation

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome, and thank you for the comment 👍

[@gim2128]

Thank you for the very good tutorial. but All the sections & admin centers you promised to make a separate video on can not be found on your channel. can you please create a card for the video section in this video or you put the video link of each section in this video description if the videos are ready? hope to hear from you soonest. Thanks

[@longbow714]

Great Video Andy! Thanks!

[@juzettejimenez5036]

Great explanation! I enjoyed your video

[@TELE-gx2sh]

Thank you for sharing this! ❤

[@hakimehsan6910]

It was absolutely amazing. Enjoyed it.

[@despiertateymotivate]

wow, and I thought M365 was only Office apps and teams...thanks for this valuable lesson, surely I will keep carry on learning from you! Thanks for sharing this and taking the time to produce this content!

[@dpactootle2522]

Great professor, thanks.

[@iscariotproject]

oh thank you for this video it opened my old eyes to o365 and why its so big...so many things klicking in place...you break it down in a human way you can absorb.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Thanks for the nice comments and I’m delighted to have you on board 👍😊

[@RM-ss5rj]

Amazing content!!! So useful. Thank you for your great work Andy!

[@bodmas3000]

Thank you so much I enjoy the explanation of m365 uses and functions

[@GeekGurusByteMaters]

I´m in carrer transition (Operational Team from BR to System Manager on USA). This video makes me deep dive on the M365 Cloud Concept. Thanks a lot!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Best of luck!

[@patrick__007]

As always great job! Perhaps touching Azure Enterprise/Registred apps, applying SSO etc. an idea for future content? I am aware this is more Azure.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Hi Patrick. Yes that would be for Azure. Let's see how this one does first :-)

[@arifulislamleeton]

Ok thanks you so much

[@seesaw3675]

Excellent video👍👍

[@jamestholmes1764]

I found your video very helpful. Thank you so much!

[@colinsmith9288]

Thank you the great video and "Making it so" understandable.

[@onildomagalhaes3892]

Thanks so much Andy. This was very helpfull

[@S80Retro80s]

Thank you! This is very helpful!

[@fredericb4890]

Great Presentation many thanks for the super good job done 😀

[@sridharkadhisheshaiah9147]

Thank you so much . Such a Good Video with important Information

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You are most welcome

[@1eyedjacksRwild]

Thanks that was very informative.

[@techiemarksman]

Hi i appreciate all your videos they are all very educational and straight forward. Just a question what are the difference between Microsoft Admin Portal and Azure Entra portal?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Microsoft have multiple portals often things cross over however, enter ID is Microsoft identity as a service portal but you can access the same content within Microsoft 365. However, there are distinct differences between the portals for example you can now only manage licensing in Microsoft 365. I know that Microsoft are working hard to slimline the number of portals so you may see an amount of merging in the coming months and years.

[@techiemarksman]

@ Thank you! Looking forward to your upcoming videos.

[@caiobarba]

Splendid video! Thanks!

[@paulligatto8476]

Solid introduction.

[@germanthoughts6920]

thank you so much for the detailed explanation

[@misspc78]

How can I practice ? I don’t have this software but would like to do some self study by using it . Thank you for making this video !

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Take out a trial subscription 😊

[@tinabrandao6625]

Thanks a lot for this wonderful presentation! It helped me a lot! Great job, you’re the best..😊

[@kaymoney526]

awesome!!.....thank you Andy

[@sunahor007]

Another Fantastic Video!!!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stevieboi61]

last i used was win xp!? start learning win 11 yesterday. lol. very helpful thankyou

[@soodshubham7671]

Great content as always, thank you🙂

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Much appreciated!👍

[@ed_731]

Thanks for the great content.

[@Lucareztiger]

Thanks so much for your content. useful as always. I got a question, is there any way to add a cloud-only(AAD) user to an Active Directory distribution list or group?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Just add the users email address to the distribution list.

[@Lucareztiger]

@@AndyMaloneMVP Thanks for paying attention to your community, maybe I explained myself not that clear... I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I cannot add an Azure Active Directory (Clound only) user as a member of a distribution list on premises(AD), I'm using Azure AD sync. Once again, thanks for the useful content you share with us.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

@@Lucareztiger Hmmm okay.. Firstly you won't be able to add them in directly into Exchange as they are external to your organisation. I would export a list of users in Azure to a CSV file. Then you could import them as contacts into Exchange on-prem. Other things to check inc transport rules and filters to ensure nothing is blocked. As I said the best place to post questions like this is the Microsoft tech Community as they will have MVPs who specialise in this area. I wish you good lucj :-) Andy

[@Mohit_Mavani]

👍🏻

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Aw thanks so much that’s really appreciated 👍

[@kawaiihikari0]

thank you for the refresh!!!

[@joydavid4412]

Very informative - thanks Andy !

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome thank you

[@animeshmishra7983]

Thanks for Sharing

[@bluhazy]

Awesome Content as always!

[@bigsupport_tv]

You explain vey well thank you

[@sudhashahi7263]

Thank you for awesome content Andy

[@chucksezra9722]

Hi Andy. I am a system administrator and I want to start learning Microsoft 365 (hybrid). I want to be using Microsoft 365 business trial only for the sake of learning. So am thinking of using trial one month then cancel before it expires, then go for another trial in another month. Is it possible to use Microsoft 365 free trial in my case with same outlook account but with different credit cards or would it be different Microsoft outlook accounts? If not possible, what do you suggest? Thank you for your time. Chuck

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

I would go for a Microsoft 365 business premium trial as this provides considerably more functionality. Create an outlook.com account to use the trial with your credit card. You are not charged it’s only for ID purposes. For the second account create another outlook.com account. And repeat, please know you can only use one credit card per trial Microsoft are cutting back on trial tenants. Good luck 👍

[@planesofpaper]

Thanks from New Zealand.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome 👍

[@murefualexis7840]

Thank you for the video

[@tourism44]

Great work sir. Do u provide training sessions sir Thanks

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Yes I do provide onsite training.

[@eugin4819]

Thanks for your most important contents. I just wanted to ask that, do you have any video related to MD 101 & 102?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Absolutely, if you look in my in tune playlist, you’ll see them there

[@johnwinder2462]

Hi, great videos on apps I didn't know existed. I just bought a new laptop and migrating everything over. I have been paying for a family 365 account for years and only using it for my outlook, so wasted a lot of money. Im trying to search and figure out what plan I should be on and expected a simple side by side comparison chart on the Microsoft site but could not find anything, then I called and wasted an hour, eventually the representative found a page that was not easily forwarded and is going to try and write out long hand the difference between the family account and the business account. She said she can only help with the business account, the family is a different department. Why so hard? So my question here, can you do a video explaining / comparing plans? Or maybe just a link to a page that shows the up to date Apps available? Also copilot is a subscription, but is on the Edge/Bing homepage. Is it the same Copilot? Thanks.

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

a great soite to compare plans is M365maps.com

[@ConnieKruse-t4d]

I am new to Microsoft 365 Business Standard. Do I need a 3rd party backup such as Carbonite Cloud or not? Do you have a video about this?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Yes, I have done a video on Microsoft 365 back up. However, it’s only currently available on a trial basis and it’s costs pretty much double the price of other vendors. So my advice at this stage is to 3rd parties for example Veam software.

[@theit-unicorn1873]

Great video!

[@billsheridan7436]

Hello great video. I have 2 questions. I took over a small office running office 365. They currently get their drive mappings on their desktops manually connected. Is their a group police I can create too make mapping easier and contingent on the group(s) they belong too? The second is re-enabling the usb drive on certain devices? Thank you in advance

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Sure there must be. I would post this question on the Microsoft tech community. I think you’d get a quicker response. The best of luck.

[@DaniyalFaizBBE-]

Hi Andy, do you have any video related to migration to Microsoft 365?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

not specifically but great idea though :-)

[@DaniyalFaizBBE-]

Would be great to have your insights on this :) @@AndyMaloneMVP

[@DaniyalFaizBBE-]

@@AndyMaloneMVP I am in dire need of it, please make a video on it at your earliest convivence, thank you!

[@rolpil9182]

Thank you for the content

[@MaxFomin-g8b]

Content of this video should be at the beginning of the MS-102 Learn path....

[@marcw.5492]

I cant get my New 365 products to become the defaults ! whaaa? Where is this stuff installed ? It appears to be this new folder feature that is Locked ? same as MSFS. No wonder MS is becoming obsolete or just unendingly frustrating. But I do appreciate the video !

[@mohamedabdulahi2949]

Hello Andy! Will this help me get an IT support job ?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

All knowledge will help

[@angelmanuel6826]

awesome, just getting to know MS 365 we going to migrate to it.

[@microsoftsarker]

This is a wonderful video

[@lifeslooker]

what happens when you create the group and want to send email on behalf of that group?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Change the sound on behalf of settings to include the group

[@lifeslooker]

@@AndyMaloneMVP change the sound? or send? I'm talking about in M365, the online version....is there an option to "send on behalf of" here? or do you have to be looking at the newly created group/ be in it and be admin to be able to send it?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

@@lifeslooker my apologies, I often dictate my responses, and sometimes Siri gets them wrong 😊 I meant to say change the on behalf of settings to include the name of the group. Beyond that I would go to support.microsoft.com for product support. Thanks again 👍

[@Red1Wollip]

I have just installed Microsoft 365 Business Premium . I am using it for myself as my business grows I will add users. Do you have any advice for a single user to start out?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Absolutely look at my Identity playlist.

[@MdSohagHossain-i5c]

Thanks a lot

[@nikola.khalil]

Hello, is it possible to create my own domain in office 365 and create emails for my employee's ?! just like workspace, do we pay for each additional user(employee) need help asap

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Absolutley you can do it in the setting page in the Microsoft 365 Admin centre :-) Here are the instructions. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/setup/add-domain?view=o365-worldwide

[@lifeslooker]

is this 5 PCs per user? isn't a staged migration and cutover, sometimes used for 000s of users? why when creating the group, isn't it registered using a proper domain? Is this because you need to purchase one OR belong to a registered corp domain?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Yes, five PCs or Macs plus up to 10, mobile devices per user

[@100flattop]

Regarding making an 0365 Public/Private - what exactly does that mean? Does Public mean that users with a different O365 tenant can join your 0365 group?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Public essentially means that anyone in your company can browse a public group and access resources, whereas private groups can only be accessed by specifically assigned members

[@gabrielremilekun4619]

Thanks Andy

[@himanshudohare8695]

I have taken Microsoft 365 personal subscription. But during my free trial period I don't see any group's dialog launcher in word application.Will it be available after my free trial period is over?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

This is a business only feature.

[@Satish594]

Hello sir why some mails went junk folder & spam folder?

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

These type of emails are generally mass mail outs. And the system picks them up as potential John. However, you can write click the mail and move it to your inbox on the system should learn not to junket in the future.

[@jcruizer2309]

Thank you

[@mohapithapelo3681]

hello Andy I don't see admin center my portal

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

Then either you're not an admin or have a business or enterprise version of M365.

[@pronabmajumder5437]

Great!

[@hashmihamed8669]

Thank you Sir

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

You’re very welcome 😊

[@DaleRossNET]

Lets see what I can learn today!

[@AndyMaloneMVP]

We never stop learning my friend 👋👍

[@DaleRossNET]

@@AndyMaloneMVP True