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Office 365 –Always the latest and greatest

or too fast for you?

Speaker: Rene Modery15th November 2014

Host: Matthew Hughes

Agenda

Why is on-premises awesome?

Why is Office 365 awesome?

How does your company stay awesome while using Office 365?

Who is Rene?

SharePoint Team Lead for a MNC

Office 365 MVP

6+ years in Singapore

Based in Zurich, Switzerland

Web: http://modery.net

Twitter: @modery

Email: rene@modery.net

The “good old days” aka you run everything on-premises

YourCompany Inc.

Exchange 2007 SharePoint 2007

Office 2007

Internet Explorer 7/8

Here you are:Patches, Cumulative Updates, Service Packs!

Internet Explorer 9!Office 2010!

SharePoint 2010!Exchange 2010!

On-premises = everything is in your control

It is completely in your hands to maximize the value of your investment!

Run the platform in its current configuration as long as you want *

Users still using “old” code / plugins / … - no worries!

* Well, Microsoft support ends at some point….

Then came Office 365…

“So we are really excited and maybe a little bit relieved, to be honest, to be at this day where we’ve got Office 365 up and running, we’ve shipped the 2013 server, we’re in the process of updating our datacenters around the world over the next few months to the new build, and we’re really, really excited about that transition point because now we’re going to be updating the cloud much more frequently. We’ve laid the underlying infrastructure to run the engineering work at the scale with enterprise availability and you’ll see a lot more iteration from us over the next coming quarters and years from us.” – Jeff Teper, SharePoint Conference 2012

http://news.microsoft.com/2012/11/12/jared-spataro-jeff-teper-scott-guthrie-and-david-sacks-sharepoint-conference-2012/

Office 365 delivered in 2013

8

Azure AD

Password

Sync.

Office Onlinereal-time co-authoring

The New

Office

Improved Sharing

Emails

Office 365

Adapter

Embedded Images

PDFs in Word Online

Updated Lync mobile clients

OneNote for iPhone and Android phones

Q&A manager

Power Map for

Excel

Directory Sync Max Objects Auto Increase

Windows Azure Active Authentication

DirSync Scoping and Filtering

Exchange Online Inactive Mailboxes

PDF support for SharePoint Online

Lync Online Integrated Reporting

Office Online Update

Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool-update

Admin AddRetention policy

and tag

management

Office 365 SSO with SAML 2.0 Identity Providers

Exchange Online Address

Book Policies

Excel Online update

SharePoint Newsfeed App for Windows 8

Lync meeting scheduling from OWA

Exchange

Online

Archiving add-

on

Rights Management Services

OneNote for iPad

SharePoint

Online Platform

Improvements

IM mute

EXO: 50 GB Mailboxes

Exchange group

naming policy

Directory Sync

Max Objects

Auto Increase

New

SharePoint

Workflows

Yammer basic integration

Encrypted Data

Project codename “GeoFlow” preview for Excel

Directory Sync Max Objects Auto Increase

Office 365

Admin Mobile

App

OneDrive for Business Sync for Windows

Lync Online Remote PowerShell

Lync mobile clients

Office Mobile for iPhone

& Android phones

Go Daddy Integration

OWA for

iPhone & OWA

for iPad

Lync and SharePoint Service Reporting

Connecting Skype & Lync

OneDrive for Business apps

for

Windows 8 & iOSMessage Center

Shared with

Me

50 GB mailbox

Office 365

Switch Plans

OneDrive

for

Business

Storage

increase

Lync Online Q&A

manager

Office 365 just recently….

Office 365 – good or bad?

FACT: Office 365 is being updated constantly New features and solutions that may help your

company “Unexpected” changes may confuse your users

FACT: You don’t have to patch the servers Less maintenance work, more time to concentrate on

improvements and solutions You still need to think of your client software – those

old macros may not run forever….

It’s up to you how much you can benefit from Office 365

Cloud strategy – one size fits all?What’s easier? Bringing 5 employees to the cloud, 500 employees, or 50,000 employees to the cloud?

It depends….

The following recommendations apply in varying priority to different companies!

So, if you plan to move to the cloud…. #1

Be prepared for constant changes

A wild “Delve” appeared!

What is that? Where did it come from? Huh???

Awesome! Let’s communicate this to our employees!

So, if you plan to move to the cloud…. #2

Stay informed!

So, if you plan to move to the cloud…. #3

Provide adequate training:

Inform your users about new functionality

Provide ways for them to get a quick overviewDemonstration videos

Internal blog posts

Webinars

Important changes: brief in-house sessions

Monthly info sessions

So, if you plan to move to the cloud…. #4

Prepare appropriate support:

Users may discover new features faster than your support team!

Training your support team once a year is no longer enough…

Shall your employees use “self-service” (Office 365 Technical Network) or shall everything go through your Service Desk?

So, if you plan to move to the cloud…. #5

Verify your internal processes:

Training and support

Communications

Applications Development

Applications Strategy

Governance

…

Conclusion

Office 365 is changing constantly…

….and thus your company needs to rethink and re-evaluate it’s processes to get the most value out of it – be agile!

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