Microsoft is pushing O365, and it's no secret that's where the new investments are. But, what is the story for those still using SharePoint 2013 on-premises? Should they stay, should they upgrade to 2016, should they move to the cloud, or is going hybrid the end goal and not a step on the way to going all-in for O365?

1. Mikael Svenson

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4. hybrid -ˈhʌɪbrɪd/
- a thing made by combining two different elements

5. SharePoint
2003/2007
SharePoint
2007/2010
SharePoint
2010/BPOS
SharePoint
2010/2013
SharePoint
2013/SharePoint
Online
SharePoint
2016/Office 365
History
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Today

6. 1. SharePoint On-premises + SPO/Office 365
2. LOB + Office 365
3. 1 & 2
What Is Hybrid?
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7. SharePoint 2013

8. Hybrid Today
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All three topologies

9. • Consume on-premises search in SPO
• Consume SPO search on-premises
• Read/Write to on-premises BCS in SPO
• but not for crawl/search
• Read/Write to on-premises SAP from SPO
• via Duet Enterprise
• Redirect Sites and OneDrive suite bar links
Hybrid Today
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10. • In SharePoint Server 2013, you
can redirect users to OneDrive
for Business in Office 365 when
they click OneDrive or Sites in
the navigation bar
• Don’t need to redirect everyone
OneDrive for Business Hybrid
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11. • Consume search results cross farms
• Consume LOB from on-premises to Office 365
• Redirect navigation bar links to Office 365
Summary
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12. PRO
• Mix and match workloads
where they are best suited
• Guaranteed high availability
and disaster recovery on the
cloud part
CON
• Identity and profile
management
• Two environments
Hybrid Pro/Con
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13. SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2013 (August 2015 PU)

14. Enter the “Hybrid Scenario Picker”
Hybrid Tomorrow
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15. • The wizard configures a server-to-server (S2S/OAuth) connection
between SharePoint Server on-premises and SharePoint Online.
• Saves you from executing the steps at
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn197169.aspx
Hybrid Scenario Picker
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16. Index on-premises content (SharePoint, LOB) into the cloud index
Cloud Search Service Application
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SupportSales & Marketing
Knowledge Articles
OneDrive
Support forum
On-premises Office 365
SP 2013 SSA

17. • Enables all search driven work loads in SPO
• Use eDiscovery and DLP from one place – Online
• Office Graph and Delve
• Likely future investments
• Hybrid Scenario Picker for cloud Search and Federated Search
• Create sites in the environment best suitable for the workload
• ?
Cloud Search Service Application
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18. • Consume search results cross farms
• Consume LOB from on-premises to Office 365
• Redirect navigation bar links to Office 365
• Index on-premises content to SPO
• Basically the same as what 2013 (with August 2015 PU) offers
Summary of 2016 Hybrid – as we know it
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20. PRO
• Full control of farm
configuration
“I know best how many servers I
need”
• Can customize everything
• Can index and modify all data
• 100% control over uptime and
failover 
CON
• Cannot take part in cloud
workloads
• eDiscovery
• Office Graph
• Video
• Group
• PowerBI
• Updated UI
• Browser/device support
• IT cloud improvements are not
available (min role)
Pro/Con Today - 2013
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21. PRO
• Improved control with minrole
• Easier patching
• Telemetry
• Can customize everything
• Can index and modify all data
• eDiscovery with DLP rules
• Project Server
• Improved device support
CON
• Might have to beef up your
farm to follow minrole
guidelines
• Cannot take part of cloud
workloads
• Office Graph
• Video
• Groups
• PowerBI
Pro/Con Tomorrow - 2016
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22. Minrole

23. Web Front End Services end user requests, optimized for low latency.
Search Reserved for Search services.
Application Services the backend jobs or the requests triggered by backend
jobs, optimized for high throughput.
Distributed Cache
Special Load Reserved for services to be isolated from other services, I.e. 3rd
party, PerformancePoint, etc.
Single Server
Farm
Provisions all services on the server for a single server
deployment. This role is provided for evaluation and development
purposes.
Minrole

25. PRO
• No servers to maintain, HA, DR
• Cloud only workloads
• Office Graph
• Video
• Groups
• PowerBI
• Yammer
• Invite external users / sharing
• Easy access for users from all
devices
• Trained support personnel
CON
• No control on updates
• Some control on features via
first release
• No control on indexing
• Harder to integrate LOB
• Harder to customize
• …the train is rolling
Cloud Pro/Con
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26. On-premises, Cloud, Hybrid

27. • Running both on-premises and Office 365 can incur more license costs
• Cloud Search Application (hybrid crawl) might improve the TCO if you
can kill some local search servers
• All custom solutions cost money
• Farm solution might be cheaper compared to provider hosted apps
• Cloud gets new workload first
• Uncertain which ones are downported, and which ones will work hybrid
Some value propositions
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28. • Hybrid
• Governmental agencies and large companies with lots of regulations and
LOB applications
• Cloud
• SMB where infrastructure is more about internet access than hosting
• On-premises
• For those happy with things as they are
Pick your end-game!
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29. E-mail mikael.svenson@puzzlepart.com
Site www.puzzlepart.com
Blog techmikael.blogspot.com
Twitter mikaelsvenson
Thank you!
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