Announcing the Fourth Edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook

Hi Tony. I very much enjoy your book, as it is a very complete source of information how to handle Office 365. As it is 1000+ pages, I didn't get the chance yet to read it cover to cover. :-)

From what I have read, I think it is written from the perspective of a dedicated admin user account in the tenant, which has access to all the admin centers. 

I manage several tenants with Delegated Access (via Microsoft Partner Center), so I'm not really a dedicated user inside the tenant. When I access te Admin Center this way, I'm missing several options a dedicated admin user does have. Some are expected (I can't do payments, add other partners, etc.), but I'm also missing links to other admin centers. I only see the Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business Admin Center in my customers O365 Admin Center. But in my own Admin Center I have links to OneDrive, PowerApps, Flow, Security and Compliance, AzureAD, and more.

I was wondering if you could add information (a new chapter) for Delegated Admins like me. How can we best manage tenants that are not our own? 

Things like:

- What additional actions do we need to take after we are granted Delegated Access? Maybe add our own AzureAD-account to the Azure Directory of our customers?  

- How do we connect with PowerShell? 

- What works different?

- Are there other best practices?

Thanks!

Thanks! Who is the email coming from for existing subscribers so I can be on the look out for it?

Nice, just purchased the book.😊

I realized that I have not been keeping people updated as to the progress of the 4th edition. You can see what changes are made at http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb. Suffice to say that we continue to push out updated books and have processed seven updates (one per week) since we published the 4th edition. The next update will appear on July 28.

I received a question on Facebook to ask whether we would publish a printed version. Well, we actually did do this a long time ago thanks to the sponsorship of Microsoft who paid for the production costs to edit, format, and print 500 copies of the first edition for Ignite 2015 in Chicago (May 2015). However, that was only the start of the journey and I believe that the book was around 550 pages at that time. Now it is 1,040 pages and growing (yes, I know, we could be called verbose - I prefer to say that Office 365 has changed a lot since 2015). Taking a massive book like that and printing it would take enormous effort and would be very expensive. We have looked at doing it with BookBaby.com and Amazon (they can't handle our size) and I guess a niggling desire still exists to see printed copies. However, that thought is soon stifled when we consider how many changes occur each week and the impossibility of getting those changes into a printed format.

So, we remain focused on an eBook - and I think the approach works because it seems like most readers use the book as a reference. It's certainly not something you'd read page-by-page from 1 to 1,040...

Thanks to all who support this work by buying copies. We really do appreciate the support and it does help us to push forward and generate those weekly updates.

Appreciate the efforts you folks have put to write and release this Book. I have been regularly following 3rd edition and i was fully satisfied with the contents and chapters. I was very eagerly waiting on 4th Ed. I gave gone ahead and purchased without any second thought.

Thanks for whatever you been doing for O365 Community.

Good Luck