As more organizations look to move their collaboration efforts to the cloud, considering Office 365 or some other public or private SharePoint Online offering, there are some things to consider around governance, reporting, and administration. This presentation outlines some of those considerations. Originally presented for the European SharePoint Conference community.

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How safe is the cloud?
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How will the Cloud impact my business?
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What is a hybrid SharePoint environment, and
does it make sense for my business?
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How does moving to the Cloud impact my
SharePoint planning, and my ability to manage
SharePoint across the enterprise?

3. Christian Buckley, Director, Product Evangelism at Metalogix
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Most recently at Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services
team (now Office365-Dedicated) and then Advertising Operations
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software,
supply chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational
Software. At another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and deploy
a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager),
onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including
Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), and Seagate
• Co-authored ‘Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing
Real-World Projects’ link (MS Press, March 2012) and 3 books on
software configuration management.
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Twitter: @buckleyplanet
Blog: buckleyplanet.com
Email: cbuck@metalogix.com

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5. Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy

14. Evolution of the Cloud

15. The nature of how we
collaborate has evolved

16. Alternatives
for control, cost, & capability

17. Advantages to
SharePoint in the Cloud

19. Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365

23. Is there risk in
moving my data
into the cloud?

25. Taking a strategic view
of your hybrid
SharePoint deployment

26. Technology Assurance
Project Governance
Information Governance

27. Business Technology Alignment
Continuous Improvement

28. Refining
your plans

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Governance in the Cloud

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37. Evolution of the Cloud

38. The November 2012 edition of Channel Pro Magazine includes an article
entitled A Decision Tree for Moving to the Cloud by Paul
Desmond, which, while positioned for managed service providers and
other service companies, provides some helpful guidance for enterprises.
Whether building for customers or employees, think about the following:

39. What Cloud services should I pursue?

40. Should I consider Cloud-only or Hybrid solutions?

41. What kind of Cloud partners should I choose?

42. How do Cloud services differ from
traditional managed services?

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Make governance a priority
Look at your systems holistically (a business
view), regardless of where the servers sit
• Clarify and document your permissions,
information architecture, templates, content types,
taxonomy -- and ownership of each
• First define what policies, procedures, and metrics
are needed to manage your environment, and
then look at what is possible across your cloud
and on-prem instances

44. Thank you!

45. Christian Buckley
cbuck@metalogix.com
+1 425-246-2823
@buckleyPLANET
www.buckleyPLANET.com
and www.metalogix.com
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