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2. Office 365 –
Always the latest and greatest
or
too fast for you?
Speaker: Rene Modery
15th November 2014
Host: Matthew Hughes

3. Agenda
Why is on-premises awesome?
Why is Office 365 awesome?
How does your company stay awesome while
using Office 365?

4. 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

5. 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!

6. 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….

7. 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/

8. Office 365 delivered in 2013
8
Azure AD
Password
Sync.
Office Online
real-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 Add
Retention 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 & iOS
Message Center
Shared with
Me
50 GB mailbox
Office 365
Switch Plans
OneDrive
for
Business
Storage
increase
Lync Online Q&A
manager

9. Office 365 just recently….

10. 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

11. 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!

12. 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!

13. So, if you plan to move to the
cloud…. #2
Stay informed!

14. 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 overview
Demonstration videos
Internal blog posts
Webinars
Important changes: brief in-house sessions
Monthly info sessions

15. 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?

16. So, if you plan to move to the
cloud…. #5
Verify your internal processes:
Training and support
Communications
Applications Development
Applications Strategy
Governance
…

17. 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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