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On-Premises, Office 365, or Dedicated Hosting - Which to Choose?
Speaker: John Ferringer
Blog: http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com
Twitter: @Ferringer

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 What are the Options?
 SharePoint On Premises
 Hosted SharePoint
 Dedicated Hosting
 How do you decide?

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 On premises: in your datacenter
 Hosted SharePoint: in their datacenter
◦ Shared service
◦ What is a shared service?
 Dedicated Hosting: in their datacenter
◦ Dedicated service
◦ Different types of offering
◦ What is a dedicated service?

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 Total Control
 You own it
◦ Long term license
◦ Your data
◦ Your servers
◦ Your security
 You define it
◦ Functionality
◦ Features
◦ Customizations
 You set timelines
◦ Patching
◦ Upgrades

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 Complexity
◦ Need expertise
 Costs
◦ Hard costs
◦ Soft costs
 Operation
and Management
 Support
 Patches
 Upgrades

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 SharePoint as a service
 Owned and managed by a service provider
 Control over the platform?
◦ No
 Control over your service?
◦ Some
 Several providers in the market
◦ Microsoft:
Office 365 - SharePoint Online
◦ Rackspace
◦ FPWeb
◦ Many more

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 Pay for what you need/use
 Defined Cost
 OpEx instead of CapEx
 No operation of platforms
 Rapid deployment
 No patching
 No upgrades to deploy
 Support included

14.  SharePoint Standard:
◦ Server License: $4600
◦ Server: $1500 x 2 servers = $3000
◦ SQL Server 2008 Std: $2000
◦ User CALs: $90 x 100 users = $9000 a year
 Exchange Standard:
◦ Server License: $1100
◦ Server: $1500
◦ User CALs: $60 x 100 = $6000 a year
 Lync Standard:
◦ Server License: $670
◦ Server: $1500
◦ SQL Server 2008 Std: $2000
◦ User CALs: $32 x 100 = $3200 a year
SharePoint
Online: $4.00
Exchange Online:
$4.00
Lync Online:
$2.00
$9,600
100O365E1Licenses
($8each),12months
Total Cost
Per Year
$34,570
$15.50
peruserper
month
$7.17
peruserper
month
$6.14
peruserper
month

15.  With Office 365, you pay $9,600 each year
 With On Premises, you don’t
 But with On Premises you do pay:
◦ To keep it up and running
◦ To fix problems
◦ To upgrade
… hold that thought

16.  Implementation Costs
 24/7 Support Costs
 Antivirus/Anti-SPAM
 High Availability
 Disaster Recovery
 Networking/Power/HVAC
 Huge Mailboxes (50 GB)
 Large Email Attachments
 Office Online

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 You don’t own it
 You don’t define the service
 Serves the lowest common
denominator
 Limitations
◦ 2013 only?
◦ How can you customize it?
◦ What features can you get?
 You don’t set the timeline
 Reduced visibility

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 Different types of hosting options
◦ SharePoint as a service
◦ Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
 Owned and managed by a service provider
◦ But levels of management vary
 Control over the operating system?
◦ No
 Control over the platform?
◦ Maybe
 Control over your service?
◦ More than Shared, less than On Premises
 Several providers in the market
◦ Microsoft:
Office 365 – Dedicated SharePoint Online
Azure IAAS
◦ AWS (IAAS)
◦ Rackspace – IAAS or Dedicated Hosted SharePoint
◦ FPWeb – Dedicated Hosted SharePoint
◦ Many more

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 Some Control
 You don’t share it
 You can define it more
 You don’t manage the OS
 You may not manage
the platform
 Support included
 Defined cost

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 Lack of total control
 Higher cost than shared
 More responsibilities?
◦ IAAS: patching/upgrades
 Less control over:
◦ Timelines
◦ Functionality
◦ Features
 You don’t own the platform

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 Where do you want to put your SharePoint
environment?
 What do you want to do in it?
 How much control do you want?
 Long term plan for IT?
 Security requirements?
◦ Any other special requirements?
 How much expertise do you have?
 What SLAs do you need?
 What other services do you need?
 How much do you want to pay?

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 John Ferringer
 My Blog: http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com
 Twitter: @Ferringer

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