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Expert Office 365

Notes from the Field

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  • Leading industry experts teach you
  • Explores advanced and exciting areas within Office 365 collaboration and productivity
  • Helps you get more business value from a current or planned Office 365 installation

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Records Management in SharePoint Online

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 1-32
  3. Skype for Business Online

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 33-70
  4. Introducing and Preparing for Exchange Hybrid

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 71-85
  5. SharePoint Hybrid Team Sites

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 87-115
  6. Hybrid Search

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 117-138
  7. SharePoint Recovery

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 139-163
  8. Azure Rights Management for SharePoint

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 165-191
  9. Introduction to the SharePoint Framework

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 193-224
  10. Understanding and Troubleshooting Protection in Office 365

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 225-245
  11. Understanding and Troubleshooting Office 365 Mail Flow

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 247-266
  12. Final Thoughts

    • Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng et al.
    Pages 267-269
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 271-276

About this book

Get to grips with Office 365 through in-depth tutorials and insights from leading experts. Topics covered include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype Online, and more. This deeply technical book tackles key aspects of online collaboration and business productivity within Office 365.


Expert Office 365 is written by a dedicated team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs), and captures advice, best practices, and insights from their experience in the field. 


What You’ll Learn
  • Develop client Web Parts with the new SharePoint Framework
  • Create a recovery plan for SharePoint Online
  • Configure SharePoint Online Hybrid Search and Portals
  • Configure and optimize Exchange Online
  • Optimize collaboration in your organization through analytics insights



Who This Book Is For



Senior IT pros and developers who wish to master business productivity within Office 365. This book is aimed at organizations that are already on Office 365 or that are currently planning their migration to the cloud.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gatineau, Canada

    Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade

  • Ottawa, Canada

    Evgueni Zabourdaev

  • Laval, Canada

    Daniel Brunet

  • Winnipeg, Canada

    Bruce Wilson, Andrew Stobart

  • Strathmore, Canada

    Mike Farran

  • Mississauga, Canada

    Kip Ng, Roger Cormier, Colin Hughes-Jones, Rhoderick Milne

  • Edmonton, Canada

    Shawn Cathcart

About the authors

Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade is a Senior Technical Advisor working in Gatineau, Canada. His background as a Software Engineer and as a Technical Program Manager makes him a well-rounded web technologies expert. Having worked with several government departments and agencies, he has worked on various large scale SharePoint deployments. Nik is the founder and president of IgniteSoft, a consulting company specializing in small and medium SharePoint deployments for regional businesses. 

Proud French Montrealer Daniel Brunet has been highly focused in his career on content management. After 10 years at a law firm managing many flavors of ECM, he fell in love with all its challenges when SharePoint 2007 came out. It was only natural for him to join Microsoft and work with this product for the following 10 years. Today, Daniel is still at home coaching customers on content management strategies, of which recovery is a big part. 


Shawn Cathcart has spent 20 years excelling with the architecture, implementation, and operational management of Microsoft technologies. While he has covered a wide array of the Microsoft product stack, his primary focus has been with Universal Communications and Messaging. That mix of operational management and project implementation experience gives Shawn a very honest and practical approach to the utilization of Microsoft technologies. Shawn has been a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer since 2014 and prior to that worked for a Microsoft Gold Partner for 10 years as a consultant. 

Roger Cormier has been working with SharePoint since March of 2004 and has been learning about SharePoint since that day. He enjoys working with people and leveraging technology to deliver business solutions. 

Mike Farran has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He likes to say his focus is on learning and helping others learn

to improve their skills and knowledge. This pursuit of knowledge has lead Mike through a Help Desk for an Oil & Gas company, various consulting companies, programming, managing a data center and then finding his second love, SharePoint, in 2006. Microsoft boosted his ego six years ago by hiring him as a Premier Field Engineer where his thirst for knowledge never goes unquenched. 

Colin Hughes-Jones started providing support for SharePoint at Microsoft in December 2005 as a contractor. He joined Microsoft in Texas as a Support Escalation Engineer in June 2007. In November 2007, he moved back to Canada and started his role as a Premier Field Engineer. He recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary working with Microsoft. 

Kip Ng has over 20 years of working experience in IT consulting, IT delivery, and IT technical leadership. Kip has strong global exposure. He can speak four languages and has worked with hundreds of organizations world

wide. Kip currently manages and runs the Business Productivity delivery team in Microsoft Canada, focusing on driving digital transformation and leading the cloud strategy and delivery.

Rhoderick Milne is currently a Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft, based out of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. With over 15 years of IT experience, his specialties are in the realms of Cloud, Messaging, and Virtualization. Prior to moving to Canada, Rhoderick worked in the UK’s largest financial institutions and has a proven track record in consulting and training. Rhoderick is a charter Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) in Exchange 2013, and a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in Exchange 2007 & 2010 in addition to holding regular MCSE+I and MCITP credentials.

Andrew Stobart is currently a Support Escalation Engineer for Exchange Online and lives with his family in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a dedicated and passionate professional with

over 20 years of experience in ITconsulting, support, and operations. Andrew has expertise and an in-depth technical skill set in Windows client and server, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Office 365, MySQL, IIS, SCCM, SCOM, Hyper-V, Visual Studio (C#), PowerShell, and many others. Recognized for strong client relationships and exceptional communication abilities with diverse audiences, Andrew has been with Microsoft since 2011.

Since early 2000, Bruce Wilson has been supporting customers with troubleshooting various technical issues. After joining Microsoft in 2007, he has supported each of the mail filtering cloud offerings provided by Microsoft. Over the years, he has developed multiple techniques to identify where breakdowns and failures occur during mail flow.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Expert Office 365

  • Book Subtitle: Notes from the Field

  • Authors: Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel Brunet, Bruce Wilson, Mike Farran, Kip Ng, Andrew Stobart, Roger Cormier, Colin Hughes-Jones, Rhoderick Milne, Shawn Cathcart

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2991-0

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade et al. 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2990-3Published: 20 September 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2991-0Published: 19 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 231 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Computer Applications

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eBook USD 29.99
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Softcover Book USD 39.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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