Microsoft 365: Health and Security
2h 23mIntermediate2025-07-10
Authors
Brien Posey
Author, Speaker, Microsoft MVP
Course details
Microsoft 365 is a complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security. This course presents fundamental concepts for enterprise administrators around security, compliance, and user management of Microsoft 365. Instructor Brien Posey shows how to configure messaging, set up analytics, run reports, create users, and manage roles and passwords. Plus, learn how to set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an additional layer of verification, and how to prevent phishing attacks. Check out this course to gain the skills you need to maintain the ongoing health and security of your Microsoft 365 deployment.
Skills covered
Personal Productivity SoftwareCloud ServicesCloud ComputingBusiness Software and ToolsDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
Messages and Alerts
- An overview of the Office 365 Message Center
- Configuring Message Center preferences
- Understand message relevance
- Share a message
- Examining the service health
- Evaluate software updates
- Creating a service request
- Messaging your users
Basic Reporting
- Office 365 usage reports
- Anonymize reporting data
- Assessing Microsoft 365 adoption within your organization
Security and Compliance
- Viewing your Secure Score
- Viewing your Identity Secure Score
- Accessing email and collaboration reports
- Performing a security audit
- Setting the audit retention policies
User Management
- Create a user account
- Prepare a spreadsheet for bulk user creation
- Import users from a spreadsheet
- License a user
- Assign administrative roles
- Assign roles to multiple users
Passwords
- Create a password expiration policy
- Resetting a user's password
- Enable self-service password reset
- Using self-service password reset
Guest Users
- Enable guest access
- Create a guest user
- Granting guest access
Multi-factor Authentication
- What you need to know about security defaults
- Disabling the security defaults
- Using conditional access policies to enable MFA
Phishing Attack Prevention
- Setting up a simulated phishing attack
- Receiving a simulated phishing email
- Working through security training
- Exploring the administrative dashboard
Conclusion
- Next steps