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STRATEGIES TO KEEP UP WITH MICROSOFT’S CHANGING ECOSYSTEM
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN YOU AND MICROSOFT
• Introduction• Office 365 Roadmap and Adoption Techniques➢ Functionality, Servicing & Retirements
• Licensing Developments and Options➢ A new way to stay compliant
• Office 365 Adoption Tactics ➢ How to stay current and get the most out of your investment
• Wrap Up ➢ Resources➢ Questions
• 30 years in business – industrial grade hardware
• Microsoft Gold Partner
• Nominated Microsoft Partner of the Year
• Office 365 Deployments and Consulting for 3 years
• Microsoft connections
• 200+ government customers nationally
• Regional Account Manager
• 2 years at Tangent
• 5+ years in the arts – Christie’s Auction House, Vancouver
Art Gallery
• Expertise in Office 365 planning and adoption – bridge
the gap between the rate of your users and the rate of
Microsoft technology
Hannah Rachael Smith
What is office 365? Hosted Services
• Exchange
• Sharepoint OneDrive for
Business
• Skype for Business
Desktop Clients
• Office Pro Plus
Advanced Compliance &
Management
• Threat Protection
• Threat Intelligence
• Compliance
• Data Loss Prevention
• Information Protection
• Azure AD
• Planner
• To Do
• StaffHub
• Power BI
• PowerApps
• Flow
• Teams
• Delve
• Video
• Stream
• Sway
• Forms
Hosted Services with On-Premises Cousins
➢Exchange Online
➢SharePoint Online
➢OneDrive for Business
➢Skype for Business Online (absorbed by Teams)
✓Tighter integration with other Office 365 services.✓Hybrid and migration features see lots of love.✓Features are coming to online first and sometimes exclusively.✓Overall improved administration controls.
Functionality
Say goodbye to Skype for Business
FunctionalityTeams and Groups Collaboration
➢Groups is the common platform
➢Teams is the common frontend
• New services built for Teams
• Customizations and 3rd party apps
• Absorbing Skype for Business
✓ Goal is to create interdependencies that provide more functionality.
✓ Adopting Office 365 services often means adopting Teams.
Servicing and Retirements
✓Constant change affects IT support and training.✓Orgs should budget for unexpected IT projects to respond to new retirements/changes.✓Avoid deploying a new service until it’s established.✓Limit external integrations and customizations.
➢Updated continuously
➢Services “on by default”
➢Shutdowns with short notice
➢Policy changes are annual
RetirementsSkype for BusinessVideoListingsConnectionsExchange Unified MessagingVisio Services in SharePointOWA for Android/iOS
➢Compliance
➢Government vs. Commercial Cloud
➢Pricing
➢Flexibility
Licensing
➢Data is always stored in the
United States, but can leave
in the case of a disaster
➢Can purchase through
anyone
Government Community Cloud Commercial Cloud
➢CJIS Compliant
➢Data will never leave United States
➢Enterprise Agreement
Licensing
CSP – Cloud Service ProviderA Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) is an organization designated by Microsoft to resell and provide
support for Microsoft software including Office 365
Licensing
Licensing EA vs. CSP Comparison Chart
Adoption➢Agencies on O365 for 3 years – exchange only
➢Using 10% or less of what they’ve paid for
➢As the technology advances and users don’t the
gap increases
➢Failed first attempt is death
➢Feature rich vs. feature overload
AdoptionSteps to Ensure a Successful Rollout
➢Work with a team internally or a partner to create a
detailed roadmap – which products will you roll out?
➢Choose early adopters/champions in each department
➢ Provide resources for your employees post adoptions
➢What can Microsoft offer you???
Resources➢Office 265 EA vs. CSP - http://tangentsolutions.io/products/government/
➢Questions to Ask the CIO About Office 365 Adoption -
https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/research/secured/2018/08/questions-ask-cio-
about-office-365-adoption
➢Office 365 Roadmap -http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/roadmap/ref/office-365-and-
ems-roadmap
➢Executive Considerations for Office 365 Adoption -
https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/research/secured/2018/07/executive-
considerations-office-365-adoption
➢Office 365 Security Options - https://sway.com/gbOSEqgdiXHsr5TH?ref=Link
