There is a lot to take into consideration when implementing Office 365, but these 10 talking points should help you to cut down your nightmares night after night. You will learn to use these points to make your management confident in your Office 365 implementation. You will also learn how to spend effectively for Office 365 implement, shorten the path for return on investment. You can have successful change management implement with Office 365 by following some of these key points. You can even source for a better Office 365 consultant by following these 10 myths as well.

1. Successful Office 365 implementation -
The 10 Myths
Ming Man Chan
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Data Platform MVP

2. Are you the ONE
• Chief Information Officer
• Chief Technology Officer
• Senior management
• Office 365 Consultants
• Project Managers

3. Take away
• Reduction on 10 mistakes at least
• To reduce project timeline
• To reduce cost for your project
• Success in change management

4. Where is your destiny?

5. 1. Active Directory Domain Controller not
synchronizing
• A free solution powered by Hyper-V that replicates your VMs from 1 host to another.
Primary Site Replica Site
Replication
over LAN
• xxxAD01
• Azure AD
Connect
• SMTP Relay
• xxxAD02

7. 2. The version of your exchange server

8. 2. The version of your exchange server
• Exchange 2007 cannot longer upgrade to
• Exchange Server 2007 End-of life
• Exchange 2007 reached end of support on April 11, 2017, per
the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. As a reminder, after that date there will
be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid
assisted support options or online technical content updates.
Furthermore, as adoption of Office 365 accelerates and cloud usage
increases, custom support options for Office products will not be
available. This includes Exchange Server as well as Office Suites;
SharePoint Server;

9. 2. The version of your exchange server

10. 3. Test your environment (application)
• You have Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Project 2010, Project
2013
• You have Windows 7
Solution
• Find a solution to uninstall the all previous Office before you can
install Office 365 Pro Plus
• Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10

11. 4. Test your environment (infra)
• Users cannot access to some Office 365 application such as
SharePoint through Proxy and Firewall
• Slow Internet speed
Solution
• Test the access to all Office 365 applications which go through the
Proxy and Firewall such as SharePoint, Teams, Form and so
• Make sure the Internet access is good in all the locations not only in IT
department

12. 5. Change Management
• Training Senior Management without material
• The change management consultant tell you no material for the next
Monday Senior Management training
• The change management consultant gives you around 10 to 12 points
form
• 100% yes man to the vendors. Agreed as long as vendor give
suggestion for example, create a Team Site through Microsoft Teams
Solution:
• Ask him for all the training material from day 1 when planning the
training
• Setup governance framework following the company policies and ask
the vendor to follow.
• Get the consultant who have failed the change management before

13. Share your first attachment using Office 365
• Attaching files more than 5, 6 or 10MB
Solution
• Start using SharePoint or OneDrive to Share

14. 6. Network Attach Storage (NAS) migration
• Move the entire NAS to SharePoint and do housekeeping?!!
• That will create a perfect rubbish in and rubbish out scenario
• Will your vlookup for Excel and Mail Merge for Word still working
Solution:
• Create a proper Team Sites structure
• Ask the content owner to migrate the file
• Maintain vlookup files in the same folder
• Get the SharePoint file path correct

15. Team Site
IT
Application
Infra
PMGS
Corporate
Finance
Legal
Engineering
Warehouse
Human
Capital
Organization Team Site

16. Team Site
Documents
Documents
External
Archive
2016
2015
2014

17. 7. SharePoint has limitation, communicate early
• SharePoint Server versions only support up to 260 characters for file
and path lengths.
• 0 Byte file cannot be upload
Solution
• Identifying those files before upload to SharePoint

18. 8. Permission
• The default Owners, Members, and Visitors may not work for your
organization
• Inheritance may not be friendly to your governance framework
• Member can always create a subsite
Solution
• Stop Inheriting Permission
• Use Contribute permission instead of Edit

19. 8. Permission

20. 9. System integration
• MS SQL Database
• Active Directory
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) backend document storage
Solution
• Using ETL tool such as SSIS
• Using CSOM (SharePoint client object model)
• Using JSOM

21. 10. Web platform for your organization
• I want to look for web hosting
services
• I need 3 quotation to decide the
best hosting service to purchase
Solution
• Create a Team Site in SharePoint

22. 11. Who to support (Bonus)
• Missing file in OneDrive and SharePoint
• Cannot access to email
• Forget password
Solution:
• Train existing technical support or get extra resource
• Off load to individual department

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