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Thomas Vochten

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Agenda• Business Drivers for Hybrid• Prerequisites for hybrid topologies• Hybrid Search• Hybrid OneDrive & Sites

Acknowledgement / Credits

Donald Hessing (@dhessing)Neil Hodgkinson (@nellymo)

Manas Biswas

Opportunity!

or Threat?

Innovation is cloud-first

Why Hybrid?• SharePoint on-premises is complicated (think Extranets)• Take advantage of cloud offerings (think OneDrive)• Take advantage of cloud innovations (think Delve)• Keep special data and applications on-premises (think

farm solutions)• Prepare their minds for the cloud (think culture shift)

Practical drivers• Business is urgently requesting to move to SharePoint

Online, but can’t wait for a full migration• Some application can’t be migrated to SharePoint

Online• Adopting OneDrive for business and leveraging the low

costs for storage in SharePoint Online• Some sensitive content needs to stay on-premises• Publishing external data sources to SharePoint Online• Mergers and acquisitions• …..

END-USER WALKTHROUGH OF BASIC HYBRID FUNCTIONALITIES

PREREQUISITES FOR HYBRID

Minimum Requirements for Hybrid Topologies• Good bandwidth, low latency and reliable Internet connectivity• Office 365 Enterprise Subscriptions• SharePoint Server 2013/2016• SharePoint Admin account for on-premises• Tenant Admin account for Office 365• Required service applications

• Service Apps for On-Premises• Subscription Settings Service• User Profile Service• Search Service• App Management

Identity Management

Cloud Identity

Single identity in the cloud Suitable for small organizations with no

integration to on-premises directories

Directory & Password Sync* 

Single identitysuitable for medium

and large organizations without federation*

On Premises Active Directory

Federated Identity

Single federated identity

and credentials suitable

for medium and large organizationsOn Premises Active

Directory

On Premises Identity

Domain based identity solution suitable for all

organizations

• Synchronized with password or federated identities

• Internet routable AD domain (Name)

Is the “New Hybrid” One-Way?• Redirecting the user to Office

365• OneDrive• Sites• Cloud Search Service

Application• Query federation to SharePoint

Online

• Cloud Driven Hybrid Picker

Advantages of the “New Hybrid” topology• Relative easy to configure• Supported with Wizards / One Click Deployments• No need for certificates, reverse proxy, public IP

Address, DNS• Works with SharePoint 2013 SP1 (aug. CU 2015) and 2016

RTM• New hybrid scenario’s can easily be added to On-

Premises

HYBRID SEARCH PAST AND FUTURE

Query FederationHybrid Search - The Past

What’s the problem with query federation?• Complex to setup• Requires a complete

Search Service Application• Separate result blocks• Without ranking and

relevance integration• No refiners

Query Federation Topology

Federated search resultsPrimary web app

SharePoint Online

InternetMicrosoft data center Intranet

Federated search results Site collection

Office 365 tenant

SharePoint

SharePoint Online can query SharePoint Server

• Search: Bidirectional • Business Connectivity Services: Supported• Duet Enterprise for SharePoint and SAP: Supported

SharePoint Server 2013

SharePoint Server can query SharePoint Online

Inbound

On-premises SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Search portal and SharePoint Online search portal: Local and remote search results are available. If extranet authentication services are configured, extranet users can log in remotely through an on-premises Active Directory account and use all available hybrid functionality.

Perimeter network

Customer network

Outbound

Picture: © Microsoft

Cloud Search Service ApplicationHybrid Search – The Future

What’s it about?• Crawl on-premises• Query online• A single search index• No separate result blocks!

Use CasesCloud Search Service Application

Distributed farms

Archiving and migrations

eDiscovery and Compliancy eDiscovery and Compliancy are

search driven solutions Single index in Online opens

eDiscovery and Compliancy solutions across Online and On-Premises content

Make sure you are logged in with an account that has access to the on-prem content sources

ArchitectureCloud Search Service Application

Crawling

Querying

Setup & ConfigurationCloud Search Service Application

Get it workingStep 1 - Create a new search service application

Get it workingStep 2 - Run the onboarding script

Topology and Sizing

Topology and Sizing

Get it workingStep 3 - Start a crawl

Get it workingStep 4 - Configure Default Result Source

Get it working

Get it workingStep 5 - Test Basic Querying

HYBRID ONEDRIVE & SITES

Hybrid features for each configuration

Hybrid OneDrive

What does it provide?• OneDrive redirection• User Profile Redirection

What it is not?Redirect from Online to On-PremisesUser Profile Synchronisation or Import from On-Premises

You might want to migrate additional properties that are not synced by AAD ConnectUser Profile Batch Update APIhttp://thvo.me/pnpuserupdate

Hybrid Sites Feature

What does it provide?• Hybrid OneDrive• User Profile Redirect+ Sites that you follow on-prem appear in the Sites App of Office 365+ App Launcher integration

What it is not?• Nothing to do with the Site itself!

• Provisioning of on-premises or online sites• A site that is spread across on-prem and in online

Configuration

Hybrid Configuration Wizards

Hybrid Picker – Overview On-premises Farm & O365 Tenant Admin

Picture: © Microsoft

Hybrid Configuration Wizards

•Logon with the farm admin account•Start the wizards (ClickOnce)•Configures trust between on-prem and SPO•Perform an IISReset•Configure options in on-prem

On-Prem Configuration

On-Prem Configuration

Summary• Hybrid is the future, but• Think about your requirements• Identity Management is key• Start experimenting with hybrid search now!• SharePoint 2016 is the way to go, but• SharePoint 2013 is also possible• More hybrid investments are coming!

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