In an on premises IT environment after a major upgrade or migration there's often a lull in activities, a chance to rest or catch up on things you've put off for a rainy day. In the cloud the only constant is change, a relentless barrage of new features, functionality, and services. While it may be the end of a major phase or project on premises, finishing a migration or a deployment in a cloud service like Office 365 is actually just the beginning. Constant change also means that the goalposts are always moving backwards, you're regularly challenged by new releases, new requirements, and new requests from your end users. Although these challenges are daunting, that doesn't mean you can stick your head in the sand and ignore them. In this session IT decision makers, leaders, and architects will learn how they can build and maintain a consistent depiction of the progress their organization has made in their digital transformation journey to Office 365 as well as use it to map out their strategy for the road ahead. It will enable attendees to assess their current state of deployment and utilization across all of Office 365's workloads, map that current state to a maturity model designed to simplify the visualization and communication of that state, and then identify critical areas for improvement or enhancement. Additionally, we'll discuss how IT organizations can use this self-assessment to continually update a baseline of their O365 footprint and account for the every-changing nature of O365's services and solutions. Finally, attendees will learn about how they can automate their assessment for additional efficiency and accuracy using O365's out of the box tools and APIs.

1. Moving to Microsoft 365:
You Got There,
Now What Do You Do?
John Ferringer

2. John Ferringer
http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com
https://www.SlideShare.net/ferringer

3. Agenda • Maturity in M365 & the Five Ws
• Where?
• Why?
• What?
• Who?
• How?
• When?

4. Maturity
in Microsoft 365

5. Strategy without tactics
is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy
is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

6. I think my daughters
have a pretty healthy
self-awareness,
but I can’t speak
on their behalf.
- Annie Lennox

7. We had it so good…
and operated
platforms

8. Now we have
the cloud…
and manage
services

9. Do You Understand
Where You Are?
(and what that means?)

10. Do You Understand
Where You Are?
(and what that means?)

12. That’s Not Exactly Right…
• It’s also someone else’s
software…
• And their vision.
• And their design.
• And their platform.
• And it follows their timeline.

13. Why Do We Need
a New Mindset?

14. Why Do We Need
a New Mindset?

15. Change is the only constant.
- Heraclitus

16. Other things
are changing too…
How should
we handle them?

17. Be Water, My Friend

18. Here Come the Buzzwords!

19. What is DevOps?

20. We Don’t Have
to Change What
We Care About, Do We?

21. We Don’t Have
to Change What
We Care About, Do We?

22. How do you view your digital transformation?

23. When I say Collaboration…

24. Define a Taxonomy…

25. Define a Scoring System
1. Initiating
2. Emerging
3. Transforming
4. Mature

26. What Matters to You?
What Matters
to Your Users???

27. How Do You Doin?

28. How Do You Doin?

29. What’s Out There to Measure?
• PowerShell
• Graph APIs
• Secure Score
• Compliance Score
• Productivity Score
• Workplace Analytics
• Connectivity.Office.com
• Audit Logs
• What else?

30. Are There Tools That Can Help?
• M365 DSC
• https://aka.ms/M365DSC
• PowerShell
• Azure
• Functions
• Automation

31. When Will This Be Over?

32. When Will This Be Over?

33. Remember,
M365 is an
evergreen service

34. Remember,
this is a
strategic activity

35. Questions?

36. Thank you