An Office 365 OverviewBecause the cloud is awesome yes?!

Marrell Sanders – SharePoint Administrator

Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group – May 15th, 2013

Who am I?

• Marrell Sanders• SharePoint Administrator – IT Pro• Applications Instructor• Senior Web Consultant (MS Group IT)

• Contact• Email: techrevmarrell@outlook.com• Blog: www.techrevmarrell.com• Twitter: twitter.com/TechRevMarrell

• What this session all about?• Office 365 Overview• What is it?• The Good, the Bad, and the ShareUgly?• If you thought SharePoint looked like SharePoint before!• Sounds good! Is this the line for the Koolaid? • Ninja Security (sorta)

What is it?

• SharePoint in the Cloud• Collaborate tools available "Everywhere" (internet access required)• Email Shared Calendars• Website• File sharing and managing projects• Office Web Apps (Office out there)• Instant Messaging Lync/Conferencing• Security and Trust

• Instant Infrastructure?

What it’s not! Well Sorta Not.

Comparison Chart

Plan Office 365 Small Business Office 365 Small Business Premium Office 365 Midsize Business Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3

Cost $60 user/annually$6 user/billed monthly

$150 user/annually$15 user/billed monthly

$15 user/monthly (annual commitment) $8 user/month $20 user/month

Max Users 25 25 300 Unlimited Unlimited

Office 2013 No Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Lync

Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook OneNote, Access, Publisher, Lync, InfoPath Designer

No Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook OneNote, Access, Publisher, Lync, InfoPath Designer

Office Web Apps Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Office Mobile Apps No Yes Yes No Yes

Hosted Email Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

SkyDrive Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Web Conferencing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Public Site Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Spam Malware Protection Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Community and Phone Support

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

99.9 Uptime Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Active Directory Integration

No No Yes Yes Yes

Teamsites No No Yes Yes Yes

Site Mailboxes No No Yes Yes Yes

Advanced Email No No No No Yes

Business Intelligence No No No No Yes

eDiscovery Center No No No No Yes

Advanced Voice No No No No Yes

How Good is Good?

• Saves Money (Server costs, licensing costs)• 2x Servers• 2x Windows 2008 R2 licenses• SQL Server License• SharePoint License• External Connector

• Saves Money (Staffing)• $25,000K

• Saves Money (Infrastructure Costs)• Network, Firewalls, SAN, Datacenter Costs

• No more all weekend patch cycles!!!!!• No more middle of the night server crashes!!!!• No Upgrades!

How Bad is Bad?

• Less control • Central Administration

(sorta but not really) • IIS • ULS Logs • Windows Logs

• Hassle's with Logins! • Integrating On Premise with The Cloud? • No Upgrades!!

We Must ProtectThis House!

User Experience & Design

• Can I change the look of SharePoint?

• SharePoint Designer • Visual Studio• Themes

Template image: 365collaboration.com

Can’t please everyone

• SharePoint Development?Not so much... 

• Twitter Comments from Developers"Office 365 is a joke"

• "It sucks *better* than a Hoover vacuum cleaner"• "Authentication sucks"• "The extra Auth Steps causes issues with 3rd Party tools“• Sandbox solutions are the key, although with SP2013 they are being

depreciated for App Model Development

Develop a Development Plan

• SharePoint Designer tends to help people make poor Development choices.

• Office 365 has a 24hr SLA to recover a site collection.• Dev VM • Cloudshare • AppGrid• Windows 7

• Development Site Collection• Have to use Sandbox Solutions

Who’s my Admin/Support?

• Office 365 Datacenters use Modular configurations• Support Dependent on Plan: Community vs. 24/7 Phone

What good is a O365 site?

• Remote Workers• Small Organizations• Extranet / Intranet• “Brochure Ware” sites • Quick Team Collaboration• One-off project sites• Disaster Recovery Planning Docs• Collaboration Only Sites • Shared Calendars

Is the cloud secure?

• I want my data close to me. • Neil Sly @NRS said it this way. "Close = Safe?"

About those ninja’s…

Certified for ISO 27001SSAE16 SOC1 Type II EU Model Clauses. In addition to EU Safe HarborHIPAA-Business Associate Agreement (HIPAA-BAA).Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

Quick Demo

Questions?