{"id":4938,"date":"2013-05-30T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2013-05-30T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:17:05","slug":"a-toolkit-for-successful-office-365-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-toolkit-for-successful-office-365-deployment.htm","title":{"rendered":"A toolkit for successful Office 365 deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve attended a couple of Microsoft Office 365 workshops during which I picked up quite a bit of useful information, not least Malcolm Bullock&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mbullock\">@MBullock<\/a>) list of Office 365 deployment planning resources.<\/p>\n<p>Office 365 is straightforward: it&#8217;s a service; it does what&#8217;s in the service descriptions. But successful migration to the service depends on thorough planning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is the point where I should say, &#8220;talk to Fujitsu; I&#8217;ve got a team of guys who can help you through this&#8221; &#8211; and I have* but that&#8217;s not why people read this blog! What I&#8217;ll do instead, is outline some of the resources that Malcolm shared and which should be considered an essential &#8220;Office 365 deployment toolkit&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj819284.aspx\">Office 365 Service Descriptions<\/a>. These are gospel. If the service description says you can do something with the service, you can; and if it says you can&#8217;t do it, you can&#8217;t. If the information is not there, you probably can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s binary; black and white &#8211; no grey. Office 365 is not for everyone &#8211; that&#8217;s why on premise and hybrid options exist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365-suite-help\/software-requirements-for-office-365-enterprise-and-office-365-midsize-business-HA102817357.aspx\">Software Requirements for Office 365<\/a>. Generally, Microsoft gives 12 months&#8217; notice of changes to system requirements but they&#8217;re also introducing an n-1 stance on browser support. Bear in mind that, just because something isn&#8217;t supported doesn&#8217;t mean that it won&#8217;t work but using unsupported software is far from ideal and it&#8217;s entirely possible that legacy\u00a0software\u00a0may be denied access in order to avoid security issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh852466.aspx\">Office 365 Enterprise Deployment Guide<\/a> (MODG). Put simply, this describes how to deploy Office 365 in the enterprise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-US\/exdeploy2013\/Checklist?state=1119-W-AAAAAAAAQAAAAA~~&amp;startOver=True\">Exchange Deployment Guide<\/a> (ExDeploy). This is a software tool to run through for on-premise, hybrid or cloud deployments of Exchange.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planningservices.partners.extranet.microsoft.com\/en\/ddps\/Pages\/Office_365_POC_Engagement.aspx\">Solution Alignment Workshop<\/a>. These workshops are professional services, offered by Microsoft and their partners to make sure that the customer requirements are aligned with the Office 365 service. These workshops (together with a number of tools, such as the Deployment Readiness Tool and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mspartner.microsoft.com\/en\/hk\/pages\/solutions\/downloads\/office-365-alignment-index-calculator-kit.aspx\">Office Alignment Index Calculator<\/a>) are now being replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/onramp.office365.com\/OnRamp\/\">OnRamp<\/a>, a streamlined on-boarding process allowing customers to take a staged approach to their Office 365 migration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftofficedemos.com\/\">Test\/demo environment<\/a>. Register for a\u00a0trial Office 365 tenant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj219422.aspx\">Office 365 Pro Plus Deployment Tool<\/a>. A tool to configure the click-to-run functionality for local streaming of Office 365 ProPlus desktop software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also <a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/wikis\/diagnostic_tools\/4027.aspx\">many tools and diagnostic utilities referenced from the Office 365 Community website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* In all seriousness, I&#8217;d be happy to discuss Office 365 opportunities with any UK-based enterprises looking at migrating their email to the cloud, or even looking for a hybrid or fully-managed Exchange\/Lync\/SharePoint solution but this is my personal blog and in no way endorsed by my employer. If you would like a professional conversation, please do <a href=\"mailto:mark.a.wilson@uk.fujitsu.com?subject=Messaging%20enquiry%20(blog%20referral)\">get in touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve attended a couple of Microsoft Office 365 workshops during which I picked up quite a bit of useful information, not least Malcolm Bullock&#8217;s (@MBullock) list of Office 365 deployment planning resources. Office 365 is straightforward: it&#8217;s a service; it does what&#8217;s in the service descriptions. But successful migration to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-toolkit-for-successful-office-365-deployment.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A toolkit for successful Office 365 deployment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-office-365"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A toolkit for successful Office 365 deployment - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/a-toolkit-for-successful-office-365-deployment.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A toolkit for successful Office 365 deployment - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve attended a couple of Microsoft Office 365 workshops during which I picked up quite a bit of useful information, not least Malcolm Bullock&#8217;s (@MBullock) list of Office 365 deployment planning resources. 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