1. Microsoft Premier Services
Andrew Sloan, Microsoft Technical Account Manager
Cory Sweet – Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation
2. Microsoft Premier Services
Driving value with Microsoft Premier Services in your
IT organization for on premise and O365 technology
Microsoft Premier Services helps achieve maximum return on the investment made in IT, while driving value
for the business. Premier Services partners with IT organizations to provide world class 24/7 support for
increased uptime and performance. However, more than an insurance policy for break/fix incidents, you will
discover in this session that by partnering with Premier Services and taking advantage of our Proactive
Service Offerings, your IT organization can more effectively implement and maintain the environment.
Historically, Premier Services has centered around customers on premise technology needs, however we
now offer the same tailored approach with Premier Services and Support for your O365 environment as
well. Come learn what Premier Services can do for both your on premise and cloud environments, and how
you can maximize your investment in IT.
3. BIO – Andrew Sloan
andrew.sloan@Microsoft.com
• Microsoft Technical Account Manager serving State and
Local government, and Education customers in the state of
Ohio.
• Andrew has 10+ years of IT experience in the Public Sector
across State, Defense, and Federal markets, and 4 of those
years as an Active Duty member of the United States Air
Force.
• Technical background having held engineering and
consulting positions in storage, networking, server and
virtualization, and a breadth of experience across the
Microsoft stack, most recently as a SharePoint Consultant.
• MBA as well, IT strategy and trusted advisor helping
achieve business objectives with technology
4. Technical Account Manager Role
• TAM = Service Delivery Manger (SDM)
– Ensure delivery on purchased services, execute
• Advocate for your business / Relationship with IT
• Service Delivery Planning
– Current State > Desired State
• Escalation Management
• Provide proactive information
– Best practices
– Product/lifecycle information
– Roadmap
– Education/Training
– Security and cybersecurity information
5. BIO – Cory Sweet
• BWC Server Application Architect responsible for assessing,
designing, deploying and troubleshooting server applications and
infrastructure used at BWC.
• I have worked at the BWC since 1993 when I was hired as a
consultant to roll out the first Windows 3.1 workstations on 486
hardware. Since then I’ve moved into the Server world in early
1994 to manage MSMail and helped deploy the first Windows 3.1
Advanced Server systems replacing the Microsoft LanManager
servers in use. In 1997 I hired on with the BWC as an employee. As
a BWC employee I was involved in the initial Active Directory
rollout, MsMail to Exchange migration and almost every initiative
involving Windows Servers since then. We’ve been getting Premier
support for as long as I can remember and I have been closely
involved on a majority of our interactions with PSS.
6. What is Microsoft Services?
• Microsoft Consulting Services
• Microsoft Premier Services
7. Consulting
services
7
• Deep expertise
• Accelerate time to value
• Expertise based on
firsthand deployment
experience
• Build and transfer
knowledge
• Collaboration
• Seamless integration and
deployment
• An advocate for your
business
• Experienced with global
delivery
Full lifecycle
• Leverage the assets you
already own
• Innovate on the
Microsoft platform
• End-to-end approach,
from design, to
implementation,
and optimization
8. Premier
Support
8
• Deep expertise
• Global network of subject
matter experts
• Deep knowledge of
Microsoft products
• Support escalation to the
highest level
• Critical issue management
process
• Collaboration
• Training and knowledge
transfer
• Direct relationship with
technical account manager
• Product support workshops
that sync with key product
release cycles
Full lifecycle
• Advice supports your
business initiatives
• Risk assessments
identify potential
problems
• Operations
assessments to
streamline processes
• Operational
guidance to increase
system performance
10. Comprehensive
support offerings
Alone or combined, the Premier Support
offerings address the diverse IT support
needs of customers and partners alike.
Premier Support is available for:
• Enterprises
• Developers
• Azure*
• Office 365
• Partners*
• Surface*
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11. Comprehensive
support
Premier is an end-to-end support solution that helps
customers maximize the value of their on-premises and
cloud-based software investments by reducing risks,
improving system reliability, and improving staff
productivity.
Comprehensive coverage
• On-premises
• Mixed
• Cloud
Comprehensive services
• Service delivery/account management
• Proactive services
• Resolution services
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12. Typical Premier Agreement
1. Reactive/Problem Resolution
2. Proactive Services/Support
Assistance
3. Service Management – Technical
Account or Service Delivery Manager
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13. Some Of Your Challenges
40%
20%
40%
Change management processes to reduce cost of ownership
New technology needs new knowledge
Efforts to maintain systems can appear cumbersome
14. Reactive Support
• Insurance Policy – Break/Fix
• 24x7
– Response times (4,2,1 hour) remote work
– Rapid onsite support if needed
• Support Engineers/Product Experts vertically
aligned
• Increase uptime
• Knowledge transfer to staff
• Feedback on product defects “bugs”
15. Proactive Support
• Premier is MORE than just an insurance
policy!!
• More proactive, less reactive fire fighting
• Value and outcome based services
• OH BWC - More PROACTIVE < REACTIVE
16. Proactive Services
How We Can Help
Identify And Plan Changes
Provide information specific to your environment
Keep Your People Ready
Identify your needs
Maximize Uptime Of Your Systems
Assess the current state, and plan to prevent outages
17. PROACTIVE
Assess & Plan
Optimize &
Remediate
Restore & Protect
Education
Risk and Health Assessments
Problem Remediation and Performance Tuning
Operational Governance Reviews-Process
Improvement
On Demand Workshops, Webcasts, Chalk
Talks
18. Cory Sweet – OH BWC
– Active Directory Risk/Health Assessment (RAP)
• We do these ever 2 years typically. This insures that our AD
environment is running well and gives us access to use the ADRAP tool
so that we can ensure we are always in a healthy Active Directory
state. These are also excellent knowledge transfer sessions.
– Active Directory Recovery Execution Services (ADRES)
• Virtualization has changed the way we do many things today, and AD
recovery was on of them. We had this engagement recently to verify
our DR process and evaluate whether any of our practices needed to
change. These are also excellent knowledge transfer sessions.
– Active Directory (PKI) Certificate Assessment
• We have this scheduled to validate and health check our design to
make sure we are following the correct practices with our PKI for a
medium security installation. These are also excellent knowledge
transfer sessions.
19. Cory Sweet – OH BWC
– System Center Configuration Manager (RAP)
• We scheduled a this engagement for after we had fully migrated from SCCM 2007 to
SCCM 2012 to make sure all systems were running properly. These are also excellent
knowledge transfer sessions.
– System Center Orchestrator (Design/Analysis)
• This was to discuss implementing how we could implement Orchestrator in our
environment. This was in conjunction with our Service Manager installation.
– System Center Service Manager (Design/Analysis)
• This engagement was a lengthy engagement and was a design, implement and
knowledge transfer type of engagement. We were able to use PSS hours to get a MCS
consultant to help us design and implement Service Manager. At the end of this
engagement we were fully installed in Production and ready to start implementing
Service Manager based on ITIL/MOF best practices.
– SharePoint Migration (Design/Analysis)
• We have a very heavily used internal Sharepoint Portal 2007 environment that is
currently running on Windows 2003. Since we are not ready change versions of
Sharepoint and all of our high level Sharepoint resources are gone, we needed assistance
from Microsoft to help us get these systems up to Windows and SQL 2008 R2. Without
this engagement, we stood no chance of getting this environment moved over to new
servers running Sharepoint 2007 on top of Windows Server and SQL 2008 R2.
20. Cory Sweet – OH BWC
• Premier Workshops - The Premier workshops are a great way for a person
to get up to speed on a product. We use these workshops in lieu of basic
training given out at the normal training facilities around town. We’ve
found that the basic training is great for novices who need an introduction
to a product but they fall short for experienced IT staff when trying to
increase their knowledge in a product that they have a good deal of
experience with already. There are entry level workshops as well which
are good, but we find more value in the higher level workshops.
– Service Manager
– SCCM
– PowerShell
– Vital Signs/Performance Monitor
– SP 2013
– SC Orchestrator
– SQL 2012
– SCOM
21. Cory Sweet – OH BWC
• Chalk Talks (Custom Training) - Chalk talks are great because you
can tailor them to exactly what you are trying to learn, or let
Microsoft lead using slide decks and then customize as you
go. We’ve had many chalk talks over the years and it’s basically like
a customized training that can have structure or can be completely
ad hoc dealing with the product that you requested the chalk talk
about. These can be deep dive or just skim the surface and we’ve
used them for many different purposes.
– Windows Server 2012
– SCCM App-V
– System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
– Office Development
22. Proactive Services: Hundreds of Offerings
Proactive services are key to driving
customer health and productive use
of Microsoft products:
• SCCM RAP as a Service
• SQL Server Performance
Monitoring and Reporting
Solution
• Security Assessment and
Remediation Plan
• ADFS Design and Operations
Review
• Dynamics CRM - Health
Check
• Infrastructure Security
Strategy Consulting
• AD Recovery Execution
Service
Educate Staff
Leverage our many Chalk Talks,
Workshops and Webcasts to increase the
skills or your staff and improve ability to
act proactively:
• Workshop On Demand Library
• Dynamics CRM Online: Admin &
Best Practices
• ASP.NET Web Development
Security Practice
• Active Directory: Overview
• Windows Server - Network Load
Balancing: Planning and
Implementation
• Chalk Talk - Lync Server 2013:
What's New in Lync 2013
• Chalk Talk - Office 365 Exchange
Online: Optimizing the Client
Experience for the Cloud
Assess & Plan
Optimize & Remediate/Restore & Protect
IT Service Management facilitates
continual improvement of customer’s
IT infrastructure and operations:
Relationships Mapping Manager
Modeling
• Service
• Exchange Server Disaster
Recovery/Service Continuity
Review
• IT Service Integrated Solution
Management
• Windows Security Hardening
• SharePoint Disaster Recovery
and High Availability
Operations Review
• SharePoint Operational
Governance Review
23. Premier Support for Developers
Application Development Management: It’s what we do
24. Microsoft Support Lifecycle
Predictable, Consistent, Manageable Product Support
Minimum of 5 years1 Mainstream Support Custom Support
Online Self-Help Support
Minimum of 12 months following end of support
Support is only provided at the supported service-pack level.
Service Pack Support is 12 or 24 months for the previous service pack, after
the next service pack releases
1 Mainstream Support Ends after five years or two years after the successor product is released (N+1), whichever is
longer.
2 Extended Support ends after five years or two years after the second successor product is released (N+2), whichever
is longer.
Extended Support
Minimum of 5 years2
Indefinite
Additional resources including consumer information:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Microsoft® Support Lifecycle Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/lifecycle/default.aspx
Newsletter: subscribe by navigating to http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle,
then clicking on the “Subscribe to Microsoft Support Lifecycle Quarterly Update
Newsletter” link.
25. O365 Support
• Reactive/Problem Resolution
– Support for Exchange OL, Exchange Online
Protection (EOP), SharePoint OL, Lync OL
Support Channels:
– Free unlimited Reactive Support via Admin Portal
– If you have Premier - Use Premier support
channels rather than default support (no labor
charges, only escalation management via SDM)
26. O365 Proactive Services
• Exchange Online Administration and
Configuration Workshop
• Lync Online Administration and Configuration
Workshop
• SharePoint Online Administration and
Configuration Workshop
• Change and Configuration Management
• Cloud Help Desk Incident Process Mapping
• Cloud Help Desk Optimization
28. Now, OSDM and Cloud Proactive Services can be
included in your Base Premier Contract.
29. I already have Microsoft Support?
Professional vs Premier
• Use of SAB/Credit Card for Professional Support
– Web or phone only, during business hours
– Unmanaged (no TAM)
– No access to Premier Field Engineers
– Hard to budget or forecast
– No rapid onsite assistance
– No proactive services
– No extended or custom hotfixes
**Maximize value of SAB by transferring to Premier
30. I already have Microsoft Support?
Professional vs Premier
• Prepaid upfront annually
– 24x7 support, Critical Situation w/1 hr. response
– Named Technical Account Manager (escalation)
– Direct access to the best - Premier Field Engineers
– Quote for annual budget and forecast
– Rapid Onsite Assistance
– Access to Premier Proactive Services
– Ability to have extended support and custom
hotfixes
SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
The TAM role is in place to ensure delivery on the services you purchased as part of your Premier agreement.
This means that, as your TAM, part of my responsibilities is to work with you to plan, allocate, and execute on support and services.
Follows Premier Service Delivery Management methodology to move you from your Current State to your Desired State - Service Delivery Planning
Information distributed by the TAM:
Information services through:
Weekly Proactive Information
Best practice information
Product information
Product road map
Beta and technology adoption programs
Security bulletins
Local Workshops
Microsoft® Support Life Cycle
TechNet and MSDN® subscription
http://technet.microsoft.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
Events
By partnering with you, I can be an effective advocate for your business within Microsoft, and more effective in ensuring your overall satisfaction with Premier.
Key Messages: HANDS ON
Microsoft Enterprise Services helps our customers adopt and deploy Microsoft technologies efficiently and cost effectively, reducing time to value.
Deep expertise
Accelerate time to value
Expertise based on firsthand deployment experience
Build and transfer knowledge
Collaboration
Seamless integration and deployment
An advocate for your business
Experienced with global delivery
Full lifecycle
Leverage the assets you already own
Innovate on the Microsoft platform
End-to-end approach, from design, to implementation, and optimization
Key Messages: “OVER THE SHOULDER” guidance, advice, SUPPORT
Microsoft Enterprise Services helps our customers maximize the value of their software investments and improve overall IT health through pre-packaged, customized, and preventative support offerings.
Deep expertise
Global network of subject matter experts
Deep knowledge of Microsoft products
Support escalation to the highest level
Critical issue management process
Collaboration
Hands-on training and knowledge transfer
Direct relationship with technical account manager
Product support workships that sync with key product release cycles
Full lifecycle
Advice supports your business initiatives
Risk assessments identify potential problems
Operations assessments to streamline processes
Operational guidance to increase system performance
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SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
What you see here is data provided by the Gartner Group.
(The Gartner Group is an Information Technology research and advisor company.)
This is the typical percentage breakdown of challenges for customers.
40% of challenges point to Lifecycle Management (for example basic IT service management processes, such as change management),
40% of People challenges revolve around the need for training, and
20% of IT challenges falls under simply maintaining your current systems and keeping up with new technology.
Premier can help with not only your technical challenges, but also any roadblocks you may face with processes and with training people within your organization.
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SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
There are many ways that Premier Services can also help your Business.
For example: During a meeting with several IT Executives for one of my other customers, I learned that their regional campus IT departments was in desperate need of consulting on how to plan for information/data protection, and that their Regional Campus CIO was looking for a good methodology that would ensure that their business processes were aligned with their IT operational changes.
To coin a phrase… Microsoft has an “app” for that.
In the next few slides I’ll thru some of concepts of how Microsoft can help customers meet their most challenging business and technology issues and stay ahead of game to mitigate potential issues and risks.
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TAM NOTES:
Assessment: The Risk and Health Assessment Program provides critical insight into the health of your environment. Experienced Microsoft engineers leverage Microsoft tools to take a snapshot of your environment and analyze the performance, configuration, and event data to provide steps for maximizing your investment. Your staff will gain experience by diagnosing and troubleshooting issues identified by the Risk Assessment and Diagnostic Tool to ensure that the performance of your environment is maintained after the engagement.
Stabilization: Through active working sessions with the customer, Microsoft will assist customers in understanding the capacity required to support a technology or service, baseline systems in place, and understand the process and policy necessary to maintain a focused approach to capacity management through the development of a capacity plan.
Education: Microsoft workshops and webcasts are delivered at Microsoft® site, customer site, or remotely and consist of a combination of knowledge and experience from our product experts and consultants. Our workshops range from one to five days in length and are graded by technical levels fro 100 to 400. The benefits to you include skills and knowledge transfer, improvement in your staff’s ability to act proactively, real-world examples and experiences and opportunities to share best practices on developing, deploying, and managing enterprise solutions
Process Improvement: Reviews of existing administration, maintenance and support of MS products are conducted along with identification of people, technology, and governing policies & procedures. Recommendations are outlined in a formal report upon engagement closure that will include good-practice operations guidance based upon Microsoft internal knowledge, the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
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SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
There are, literally, hundreds of Proactive Service offerings delivered by our own Microsoft product experts. This slide represents a small sampling of what’s available to our Premier customers.
TAM NOTES:
Examples of Proactive Services:
Risk Assessments and Health Checks – Product-specific assessments reduce incidents by as much as 30 percent
Supportability Reviews – On-site evaluation and review of deployed products and services
Operational Reviews – IT Infrastructure Library–based and Microsoft® Operations Framework–based operational process and business goals assessments
Code Reviews – Developer-based engineering review of code, including best practice advice and guidance
Workshops – Deep technical training for IT pros and developers
Free-Format Engineer Advice and Guidance – Advice from Microsoft experts on implementation, performance, and operations
Online Knowledge – Access to exclusive knowledge base for education and problem solving
Preventative Services – Proactive solutions for system monitoring, configuration management, and software updates
Custom Onsite and Advisory Support
ITIL – IT Infrastructure Library
MOF – Microsoft Operations Framework
75% Proactive-----.NET, TFS, SharePoint, CRM
25% Reactive
Getting a full understanding of your system is a key to a successful engagement. The ADM must fully understand what your systems are doing, what your needs are, what your pain points are, and what your business goals are. Once those are understood your ADM will be able to provide you thace planning, guidance and resources necessary to complete your goals.
* note that the customers that are proactive see more success over those that are reactive
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TAM NOTES AND SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
Understanding and Planning for Product Support: The Microsoft Support Lifecycle
The Microsoft Support Lifecycle is designed to provide predictable and consistent product support timelines for Microsoft products to customers worldwide. Understanding the key aspects of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle will help customers maximize the support available and strategically plan their IT environment.
The Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy applies to all Microsoft products currently available through retail purchase or volume licensing and to products that will be released in the future.
The policy offers a minimum of:
Ten years of support (five years of Mainstream Support and five years of Extended Support) at the supported service-pack level for Microsoft business and developer products.
Five years of Mainstream Support at the supported service-pack level for Microsoft consumer, hardware, and multimedia products.
Mainstream Support Phase
The first phase of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle is Mainstream Support. At the supported service-pack level, the Mainstream Support phase includes:
No charge and paid incident support
Security update support
Nonsecurity hotfixes
Extended Support phase
Extended Support Phase
Extended Support is available for business and developer products after Mainstream Support ends. At the supported service-pack level, the Extended Support phase includes:
Paid support
Security update support at no additional cost
Nonsecurity hotfix support (requires purchase of Extended Hotfix Support. Per-fix fees applies)
Service Pack Support
When a new service pack is released, the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy provides 12 or 24 months of support for the previous service pack. The 12 or 24 months of support depends on the product family.
Note: To receive either Mainstream Support or Extended Support, you must be running a currently supported service pack.
Additionally, when support for a product ends, support for the service packs for that product will also end. The product’s support life cycle supersedes the service-pack support policy.
Extended Hotfix Support and Custom Support
Microsoft offers two programs that compliment the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy to help meet your needs for additional support. The Extended Hotfix Support program provides you with the opportunity to request nonsecurity hotfixes through the end of the Extended Support phase. Microsoft also offers a Custom Support program that provides the opportunity to receive support on legacy versions of Microsoft products, as determined by Microsoft, beyond the Extended Support phase.
-Support for cloud or hybrid models
What is changing from FY14 to FY15
Premier O365/Azure moves to base Premier
Reactive support and Escalation support included with regular Premier
Cloud Service Delivery management and Cloud Proactive are positioned like standard
O365 Metric on the Scorecard now includes Premier
Increased focus on TAM Readiness end Delivery Excellence for Cloud
Why is it changing
Make adding O365 support to the Premier easier at time of O365 sale
Smaller package is easier to upsell out of cycle
Empowers TAM to do SKU swap when applicable.
First step to creating a single Premier Cloud support experience across Azure/365/CRMOL
Turns on Premier Cloud support for Premier V.Next
What is the expected outcome and ask to the field.
Increased attach of Cloud support through Premier
More efficient O365 Sales Cycle
Improved customer satisfaction with Premier Support and O365/Azure.