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Jesus Salazar, a Principal with Credera and member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Development Advisory Council, presented on the topic of Office 365 Migration Planning.
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• 12 years of experience with Microsoft-based technologies
• Experience delivering IT solutions to medium and large businesses
• Strong focus on SharePoint since 2003
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Member of the Office 14 Developer Advisory Council where he helped shape the features and architecture of the next generation of Microsoft Office and SharePoint
“By 2012, 20% Of Businesses Will Own No IT Assets.”
Gartner, Jan. 2010
“The move to Microsoft Online Services will help cut operational costs by an estimated 30% and create a variable cost model that will provide increased flexibility in the future.”
Ingo Elfering, Vice PreseidentGlaxoSmithKline
“We were cautious of how many people would embrace a new tool. What we found was that 80% of our users wanted to be on a Microsoft type platform and were using one at home”
John Kalka, Vice PreseidentIngersoll Rand
The world's mobile worker population will pass the one billion mark this year and grow to nearly 1.2 billion people – more than a third of the world's workforce – by 2013.
IDC, Feb. 2010
Older Millennials (23-27) spend an ave. of 6.8hrs/w interacting with work email. Younger Millennials in work spend just 4.2hrs/w on email and more time on text messaging (3hrs) or IM (3.2hrs).
• Analyzes and gathers information regarding Domain and AD settings
• Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, and End User environment settings• Network settings and configurations• http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/183/t/2285.aspx
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit• Not specific to Office 365 but helpful in Cloud Services Planning.• Robust inventory capabilities• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb977556.aspx
Plan SharePoint Online• BCS is now included as of November 2011• Not all 3rd party add-ons are created the same• SharePoint Designer, InfoPath 2010, Office, VS 2010
Plan Customizations and Solutions
• Leverage introductory videos provided my MS• Formal presentations, informal lunch and learns, self-paced instructional videos
• Departmental or team champion “Super Users”
Train and Support Users
• Storage should be closely monitored• Event Auditing to make educated decisions• Improving Search through reporting
Plan to Monitor and Maintain Site Collections and Sites
Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls• Make use of Site Collections, your limit is now 100 gig• Don’t plan on heavily customizing or branding MySites• Release and deployment planning for new sites and
content doesn’t disappear just because its in cloud• Utilizing Sandbox solutions is mandatory for many
features and functions to operate correctly• You do not have access to deploy solutions that interact
with the web application, which limits deployment options
Plan Lync Online• Connect to Lync users outside of your organization• Your Lync On-Premise can be federated as well (requires different SIP domains)
• Lync Coexistence is coming!
Plan Domain Federation
• Windows Live is Supported• AOL and Yahoo are not supported• This is an all or nothing setting, no blocking or unique configurations for different companies or IM providers
Public IM Connectivity
• Lync 2010 Windows, Lync for Mac 2011• Outlook Web Application, Lync Web Application• Lync Attendee for Online Meetings• Lync Mobile (Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android)
Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls• Use of Public IM connectivity in Office 365 is not
equivalent with Public IM connectivity using Lync on-premise
• Training and education materials for Mac users will need to be customized, as most free materials from Microsoft focus exclusively on the Windows client experience
Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls• Keep your exchange migration window as small as
possible, don’t drag it out!• Break users into migration groups if necessary to keep
things simple• If you intend to utilize a long-term coexistence model,
plan for support with legacy platforms and services• Clean up your Active Directory service sooner than later• Identify before you start the dir-sync, if there are users
Configure SharePoint Online1. Inventory On-Premise content and customizations•Focus on migration Candidates•Keep in mind usage patterns (remote access, distributed teams, non-standardized users)
2. Determine roadmap for all customizations•Can a sandboxed solution be implemented?•Does this customization leverage any features not currently available in Office 365
3. Package all customizations into WSPs
4. Migrate content•No content migration support•Be wary of “date modified” and “modified by” fields