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Case Study

An on premise challenge to move to the cloud.

The migration to Azure and Office 365.

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Matt [email protected]

Covenant Technology Partners Manager / Architect SharePoint Experience – 9 years Azure Experience – 2 years Office 365 – 2 years

Biography



Outline

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• Provide a cost effective solution for high availability of SharePoint and existing KnowledgeLake solution

• Provide a solution to upgrade their aging Exchange 2007 environment

• Provide a solution to upgrade their aging WS 2003, SharePoint 2007 and 2010 environments

• Provide a cost effective solution for the test environment

Objectives


Outline


• Planning and Communication• Determine size of mailboxes and clean-up

whenever possible• Changes to Calendars and Shared Folders• Detailed documentation on current configuration• Mobile Requirements• Deployment Planning

• Build-out of Infrastructure• Hybrid 2013 and DirSync Servers• Testing of Mail Routes• Configuration of Delegation

• Deployment / Rollout / Training

Exchange 2007 Migration


Exchange Online Environment (Migration)


Outline


• Objects in AD that need to be cleaned up.• Additional software and hardware in place to

secure/monitor e-mail increase mail route complexity• Proxy configurations and Group Policies that affect users• Corrupt User Profiles and invalid discovery• Corrupt Mailbox content / Recurring Events• Custom Address Books and Policies• Delegated Calendars and Mailboxes• Inadequate resources for the Hybrid server• Secure e-mail on iOS Devices• Different Outlook client versions• UPN and Licensing of Accounts

Exchange Online Challenges


Outline


• Clean-up of existing content before migration• Good opportunity for new Information

Architecture (Sites, Content Types, Managed Metadata)• Site Collections / Content Type Hub• Planning and Communication• Initial Migration for UAT by department• DNS / Firewall / Load Balancer changes

• Use of 3rd Party tools (Share-Gate)

SharePoint 2007 & 2010 Migration


Outline


• Proxy configurations and Group Policies that affect users• Auditing of Migration Content (Finance)• For 3rd Products such as KnowledgeLake Database

Lookups have to be re-architected (client-side or SharePoint Lists)• URLs and Integration with existing systems

(redirects)• Don’t want to loose last modified date and user

info• Powershell interface is subset in Office 365

SharePoint Online Challenges


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Azure – Office 365 – Single Sign On (SSO)


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• VMDK to Hyper-V conversion tools

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Convertor

• Veeam *

Azure - SharePoint Test Environment


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• Hardware and/or Network configuration changes during project • Conversion of Virtual Servers to Azure

that have EFI/UEFI configurations• Company e-mail addresses used to

create Microsoft accounts• New MSFT architecture• Training• Changes in Azure Architecture

Azure Challenges


Outline


Client Cost Savings over 3 years $400K


Outline


• Cloud, Data and Infrastructure Discovery Program – 2 or 5 Day Assessment• Leverage this program to gain deeper insights to a

customer's existing infrastructure (applications, databases, etc.) to provide guidance on where modern Microsoft solutions can help address business needs.

• Office 365• Funds to reimburse MCS or a qualified partner (like you)

for adoption activities on behalf of the customer; funds will be paid out at $15/seat up to 1,000 seats and then $5 per seat above 1,000 seats with a maximum of $60,000 per customer. Qualified deployment activities include voice, meetings in the cloud, audio conferencing in the cloud*, and voice in the cloud* migration and deployment.

Microsoft Funding


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migration content finance

content types

cleanup of existing

migration good opportunity

cost effective solution

aging exchange

group policies

years office