Presented at the European Best Practices Conference in 2011, a session covering the viability of Office365 for being the right choice for your organisation
4. “The Cloud is for anyone…
… but isn’t for everyone”
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5. “Cloud computing is a model for
enabling convenient, on-demand
network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources
(e.g.
networks, servers, storage, applicati
ons, and services) that can be rapidly
provisioned and released with
minimal management effort or
service provider interaction”
Ant Clay
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6. “Cloud computing is a model for
enabling convenient, on-demand
network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources
(e.g. networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services) that can
be rapidly provisioned and released
with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction”
Ant Clay
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10. More than BPOS v2
• New user interface
• RBAC
• Identity federation
(eliminate sign-in client)
• Multi-factor authentication
support
• Client support
• Partner Model
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11. More than BPOS v2
• Voicemail with unified
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•
messaging
Integrated personal
archiving
Retention policies and legal
hold
Exchange Control Panel
Free/busy coexistence
Cross-premises
management
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12. More than BPOS v2
• IM & Presence
• GAL/Skill search in
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•
SharePoint
Online meeting with desktop
sharing
Activity feeds
Contact photos
Click to communicate from
Office contact cards
Federation
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13. More than BPOS v2
• Flexible USL
• “The 365 Client”
• Always the latest version of
the Office apps, including
Office Web Apps
• Familiar Office user
experience to access
services
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14. More than BPOS v2
• My Sites
• “Server” features
• Access documents offline
• Improved Team & Project
Sites
• External user access
• Social
• Cross site collection search
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18. Costs of on-prem
• Hardware
• Software Licences
• Professional Services*
• Support & Maintenance
Total: it depends ;)
*May still be required for 365
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19. “If you need to move quickly,
it’s very hard if you have a lot
of different moving parts …
Keeping things simple and
going faster is a good strategy
to me”
Barry Simpson
CIO Coca Cola (BPOS Customer)
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20. Making it “fit”
• Office 2003
• IE6 (obviously)
• Communicator Client 2007
(and 2007 R2)
• BPOS SSO client
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21. Making it “fit”
• Operating System?
• Browser?
• Office Client?
• Mobile Device?
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25. Managing Identity
1. Microsoft Online IDs
2. Microsoft Online IDs + DirSync
Microsoft Online Services
3. Federated IDs + DirSync
Contoso customer
premises
Trust
Authentication
platform
Active Directory
Federation
Server 2.0
IdP
AD
MS Online
Directory Sync
Federation
Gateway
Provisioning
platform
Directory
Store
Exchange
Online
IdP
SharePoint®
Online
Lync™
Online
Service
connector
Admin Portal
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26. Signing in using Federated ID
Contoso customer
premises
Microsoft Online Services
Active Directory
AD FS 2.0 Server
Federation Gateway
`
Client
(joined to CorpNet)
Exchange Online or
SharePoint Online
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