Dashboard summary

We've gone through the dashboard components that most administrators will see, but it's important to remember that these components change depending on what products your company has purchased, and Microsoft is also constantly changing its Office 365 offerings, expanding what's available, and occasionally pruning back older services. The dashboard I see today might not be one hundred percent identical to the dashboard you will see by the time this book reaches your hands, because this dashboard is one of the first places Microsoft will add new features to the administration portal, even before they're added to the sidebar navigation pane.

Now, let's turn our attention to the left sidebar. There's a lot of functionality in this navigation tree that can't be accessed any other way, and we'll go into a bit more detail on some of the functions we already touched on when they were also reachable from the dashboard.