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
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Messages and Alerts
- 02 - An overview of the Office 365 Message Center
- 03 - Configuring Message Center preferences
- 04 - Understand message relevance
- 05 - Share a message
- 06 - Examining the service health
- 07 - Evaluate software updates
- 08 - Creating a service request
- 09 - Messaging your users
2. Basic Reporting
- 10 - Office 365 usage reports
- 11 - Anonymize reporting data
- 12 - Assessing Microsoft 365 adoption within your organization
3. Security and Compliance
- 13 - Viewing your Secure Score
- 14 - Viewing your Identity Secure Score
- 15 - Accessing email and collaboration reports
- 16 - Performing a security audit
- 17 - Setting the audit retention policies
4. User Management
- 18 - Create a user account
- 19 - Prepare a spreadsheet for bulk user creation
- 20 - Import users from a spreadsheet
- 21 - License a user
- 22 - Assign administrative roles
- 23 - Assign roles to multiple users
5. Passwords
- 24 - Create a password expiration policy
- 25 - Resetting a user's password
- 26 - Enable self-service password reset
- 27 - Using self-service password reset
6. Guest Users
- 28 - Enable guest access
- 29 - Create a guest user
- 30 - Granting guest access
7. Multi-factor Authentication
- 31 - What you need to know about security defaults
- 32 - Disabling the security defaults
- 33 - Using conditional access policies to enable MFA
8. Phishing Attack Prevention
- 34 - Setting up a simulated phishing attack
- 35 - Receiving a simulated phishing email
- 36 - Working through security training
- 37 - Exploring the administrative dashboard
Conclusion
- 38 - Next steps
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