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FIGURE 19-3:
The Service Request section of the Office 365 Admin Center.
Migrating to Office 365
The nice thing about Office 365 is that it lives in the cloud and is very flexible. You can migrate small test runs of data to a trial Office 365 subscription and figure out what might go wrong when you migrate the entire organization. In fact, we highly recommend that you sign up for an Office 365 trial right now. The trial is abso- lutely free, and you can be up and exploring the product in a matter of minutes.
In the past, it was difficult to gain access to enterprise software, such as Share- Point, because it took an astute tech person to set up the environment. The tech person had to find hardware capable of running the software and then install the operating system, all supporting software, and finally SharePoint. Even if every- thing went as planned, the process took at least a week and possibly a lot longer. With Office 365, you, as a business user, can go straight to the Office 365 website, sign up for a trial, and start exploring SharePoint in a matter of minutes!
Activating licensing
The process for assigning and activating licensing has dramatically improved over the last year. In the past, the process was often described as painful. The new process is streamlined and lets you add and remove users and licenses based on your immediate needs.
To add licensing, you need to add users to the plan by clicking on the Users tab, and then selecting Active Users as shown in Figure 19-4.
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