Are you looking to SharePoint for advanced collaboration, but are not sure whether to deploy in-house or in the cloud? Perhaps you already have SharePoint, need to upgrade, but are not sold on the path that's right for you.

1. May 2014
SharePoint:
To Cloud or Not To Cloud

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About Us
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5. Your Presenter
Neil Sly
Consultant
Microsoft VTSP
MCT, MCSE, MCITP, VCP, ITIL
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6. What is Office 365?
A subscription-based online Office and software-plus-services suite that
offers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft
Office platform.
Successor to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) –
originally designed to provide hosted e-mail, social networking and
collaboration, and cloud storage.
First included hosted versions of Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Office Web
Apps, along with access to the Microsoft Office 2010 desktop applications on
the Enterprise plan.
With the release of Office 2013, Office 365 expanded to include new plans
aimed at different types of businesses, along with new plans aimed at
general consumers.

7. Cloud Adoption
28%
US & Canadian
Companies have
deployed cloud
40%
Consider the cloud
critical
Nearly All
Are considering the
cloud

8. Office 365 Partners
(according to
Interbrand) use Microsoft’s cloud
productivity services

9. What’s the difference?
• No server side code
• Limited BI capabilities
• Search – black box
• Branding differences
• Limited public website
capabilities
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-
online-service-description.aspx

10. What’s the difference?
• Active Directory integration
• Single sign on
• Directory sync
• ADFS
• Windows Azure Active Directory

12. Plan

13. Requirements
Requirements Execution Solution

14. • Run a pilot or proof of concept
• Hybrid
 Exchange
• Trivia: What do Tommy and Tiffany have in
common?
Options

16. “We do not mine your data for advertising
purposes. It is our policy to not use your data for
purposes other than providing you productivity
services”
“We design our Office 365 commercial services to
be separate from our consumer services so that
there is no mixing of data between the two”
Privacy

17. “You own your data and retain the rights, title, and
interest in the data you store in Office 365. You can
take your data with you, whenever you want.”
“Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online believe that
their customers should control their own information
to the extent possible.”
Ownership

18. You can download a copy of all of your data at any
time and for any reason without assistance
• Exchange Online - mail, calendar, contacts,
tasks via import / export wizards
• SharePoint Online - documents may be
downloaded at any time
• Obtain end-user metadata such as email
addresses, first / last name, etc. via PowerShell
It’s your data

20. • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA)
• Data Processing Agreements (DPAs)
• Federal Information Security Management Act
(FISMA)
• ISO 27001
• Statement on Standards for Attestation
Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
Independent Verification

21. • Physical data center access restrictions with
multiple layers of physical security
• End to end encryption of data both at rest and as
it is transmitted
• Regular backups
• Data kept ‘in-region’
Security Features

22. • Redundancy
• At server, data center, and service levels
• Resiliency
• Active load balancing
• Automated failover with human backup
• Recovery testing
• Distributed Services
• Distributed component services limit scope and impact
of any failures
• Directory data replicated across component services
Reliability

23. • Quarterly world wide uptime of 99.98%
• Financially backed SLA of 99.9%
Uptime

25. PowerShell
Exchange Management Console
Admin Portal
Office 365 Admin Application
Access Options

26. Why Office 365?
• Third generation platform
• Limited configuration and maintenance
required
• Integration with corporate Active Directory
• Frequently updated/patched

27. Why Office 365?
• Mobile ready
• Great for extranets
• Share content with anyone
• Third party products
• Migration tools
• Governance
• Integration
• Workflow

28. Why Office 365?
• Office Web Apps
• SkyDrive Pro
• Office On Demand
• Yammer
• PWA
• Azure

29. Case Study #1
• SharePoint 2007 to Office 365 Hybrid for
Citizens Bank

30. Case Study #1 - Requirements
• Upgrade collaboration sites
• Low impact branding solution
• Multi-purpose site template
• Office 365 pilot -> Hybrid

31. Case Study #1 - Approach
• Some sites were upgraded to on premise
farm via database attach
• The remaining sites were migrated to
Office 365 using Metalogix
• Test upgrades were performed for all sites
• Branding solution was created for both
environments and looks the same
• Seamless for end users

32. Case Study #1 - Results

33. Case Study #1 - Takeaway
• Migration tools are worth every penny

34. Case Study #2
• Non-SharePoint -> Office 365 Intranet for
Compuware

35. Case Study #2 - Requirements
• Publishing sites with custom branding
• Custom home page and other layouts
• Mobile ready via responsive design

36. Case Study #2 - Approach
• Manual content migration for web content
• Migration tool

37. Case Study #2 - Results

38. Case Study #2 - Results

39. Case Study #2 - Results

40. Case Study #2 - Takeaway
Plan for more implementation time and
unexpected gotchas

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