Office 365 Integration Options - SharePoint Fest 2012

Office 365 Integration Options

David Greve

What is Office 365

“….a cloud productivity solution that simplifies IT management and provides virtually anywhere access to familiar Office tools, email, file sharing, conferencing, and many more services.”

-Microsoft Marketing

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What is Office 365

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Office 365 Benefits

• Reduce costs – no hardware maintenance, reduction in administrative costs

• Flexible access for the user

• Operational effectiveness

• No data management concerns

• No need to upgrade because Microsoft does it

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Is Office 365 a Fit

• Organization footprint?

• Enough stable bandwidth?

• What applications do you leverage today?

• What system dependencies do you have?

• Can you remain current with your applications? (e.g., IE, Office Apps, etc.)

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Office 365 Integration Options

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Options Details

No Integration • Accounts created directly in Office 365

Directory Integration (Directory Sync) • Active Directory Synchronized to Office 365

Active Directory Authentication (ADFS) with Directory Sync

• Active Directory credentials are used to logon to all Office 365 services

Office 365 – No Integration

• Pros– Quick deployment

– Great for non-AD or Small Businesses

• Cons– Another separate logon for users

– Another area to try to keep accurate data

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Office 365 – No Integration

• Sample Architecture

– Non-synchronized, Office 365 is stand-alone

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Office 365 – No Integration

Portal Demo

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Office 365 – Directory Integration

• Pros– Moderately quick deployment

– Maintain a single location for directory information

• Cons– Another separate logon for users

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Office 365 – Directory Integration

• Sample Architecture

– Synchronized, AD is the anchor point for all directory objects

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Office 365 – Directory Integration

• Common attributes sync’ed to Office 365– Display Name, First, Last, etc.

– Company, Department, Manager, etc.

– Address, Phone numbers, etc.

– Country

– Home page

– Email addresses

• Common attributes are not sync’ed back, only specific Exchange Hybrid attributes

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2256198

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Office 365 – Directory Integration

Portal Demo

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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication

• Pros– Single logon from Active Directory

– Simplified applications logon

– Maintain a single location for directory information

• Cons– Deployment time, based on complexity of Auth

Requirements

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• Sample Basic Architecture

– Synchronized, AD is the anchor point for all directory objects and authentication

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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication

• Sample Architecture with Redundancy

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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication

Portal Demo

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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication

Integration Options Summary

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Options Pros Cons

No Integration • Quick deployment• Great for non-AD or Small

Businesses

• Another separate logon for users

• Another area to try to keep accurate data

Directory Integration (Directory Sync)

• Moderately quick deployment

• Maintain a single location for directory information

• Another separate logon for users

Active Directory Authentication (ADFS) with Directory Sync

• Single logon from Active Directory

• Simplified applications logon

• Maintain a single location for directory information

• Deployment time, based on complexity of Auth Requirements

Office 365

Questions?

David Greve

david.greve@perficient.com33

Office 365 Book

• Deployment architecture

• Directory Sync

• ADFS

• Chapters 4,7,8, and 9

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