The Cloud ConnectionGOT MY HEAD IN THE CLOUD AND LOVING IT!

I am…Plunging headfirst into cloud technology, and completely sold on the idea of being able to work anytime, anywhere on (almost) any device – I love that technology allows me to collaborate with people in real time anywhere in the world, and that I’m not tied to any one machine at any time to be productive.

A Systems Consultant with Long View Systems with over a decade of experience in IT, and most recently focusing on Office 365 and Hybrid Architecture.

Certifications:MCP, MCSA, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Administrating Office 365 for Small Business

My Cloud experience

Office 365 since Wave 14 (Office 2010 and 2010 Servers)

Office 365 MVP since January 2014

Blog: http://masterandcmdr.com

Microsoft Technology Training Presenter

Find me on Yammer, LinkedIn or on the Microsoft Forums

Programs and features I use every day: OneDrive – all personal files and photos

Camera backup on iPhone

SharePoint and ODB – all work documents and files

Dropbox - Camera upload on iPhone

Easier folder sharing (at the moment), although this feature is pending in OneDrive

Outlook 2013 & Outlook Web access

Windows 8.1 - OneDrive built in, my default save location for documents and files

Lync - presence, IM, and phone/conferencing

CrashPlan online backup - unlimited storage

My Cloud connection

OneNote

My Cloud connection

My Cloud connection

New and Noteworthy

Outlook Web access continues to improve with:

Document collaboration

Groups and Conversations

Delve & Office Graph (in First Release)

Send OneDrive links as attachments

OneNote – free and available on (nearly) everything!

Connect OneNote to OneDrive or ODB for the best experience

Office for iPad and Android

Yammer integration continues to improve

New and Noteworthy

Custom themes (coming soon)

Office 365 Admin center unified navigation

Customize Top Navigation Bar

Office 365 Roadmap – see when new features are coming out, and what their timeline is: http://office.com/roadmap

1TB ODB storage – everyone gets a terabyte!

Share files directly from OneDrive

Document Conversations in SharePoint and OneDrive Business

Cloudy with a chance of Hybrid

The Cloud – my services, someone else’s servers

No need to fear the cloud – on premise solutions and skillsets will be required for a long time to come.

There is no one-size-fits all solution Most businesses will not be able to go entirely cloud

Hybrid environments are here to stay (for now) – learning how to tie Office 365 services into applications and services that need to remain on premise is the way to go.

Cloud services fall short around backup and retention

“Mobile First, Cloud first”

Bowser is King

Microsoft continues to drive the browser experience – updates trickle down to on premise services much more slowly.

OWA has several features that are not (and probably never will be) seen in Outlook. Conversations

Groups

Clutter

Office Graph (Delve)

Big Data & Machine Learning continue to drive innovation

Success with Office 365

Office 365 is here to stay – it’s important to at least know what is going on with cloud services in order to stay relevant.

Email is often the primary driver for businesses moving to Office 365.

Once in the cloud, users expect to taste the different offerings on Microsoft’s buffet.

Lync enhances the Outlook experience and can provide an easy win.

OneDrive Business gives users 1TB of storage – reduce the need for on premise storage and carrying around USB drives

Look at Office 365 as a connected solution, not just email, SharePoint, or Lync – all these services come together as a cohesive unit.

Connect users to as much as makes sense for the best experience.

Use the Office 365 Admin Guides and Customer Success Center to guide your deployment.

Success with SharePoint

Connect users to OneDrive.

Encourage people to fill out their profile – add pictures! Having profiles filled out enables skill search as well as “ask me

about”.

Create simple site collections with clean navigation.

Document libraries – keep it simple and use search.

Do away with the company bulletin board – put it in SharePoint.

Send links, don’t send documents.

Turn on versioning in document libraries – be a rock star!

Success with Yammer

Enterprise Social is a big push with slow adoption.

The tide is turning (albeit slowly).

Turn on Yammer in SharePoint instead of Newsfeed.

Use the Yammer admin guide, and Customer Success Center to drive deployment and adoption.

Yammer requires buy-in from the top down – getting execs and power users involved will help people pick it up and start using it.

Success with Lync

Set up some relevant groups and add them to the Lync client.

Show users how to know when someone is online from Outlook or SharePoint.

Show users where to access saved conversations in Outlook.

Demonstrate how to share a screen with someone else, or collaborate on a document.

Features Available in Lync Online Instant Messaging & Presence

Lync-to-Lync Calling

File Transfer

Distribution Lists

Lync External Connectivity (Lync Federation)

Online Meetings

OneDrive: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

OneDrive (Personal) – One place for everything in your life: 15GB free, additional storage dirt cheap. Great product, sync is pretty much rock solid.

Baked in to Windows 8.1, integration is tight.

Apps for most mobile platforms – everything, everywhere.

Camera backup for phones.

OneDrive replaces My Site – 1TB of storage, my documents or home drive in the cloud.

OneDrive Business – sync client keeps OneDrive, and SharePoint libraries synchronized on your hard drive for offline use.

ODB Sync client is plagued with problems – but Microsoft is working hard to fix it.

Sharing with OneDrive Business

You can share files up to 10GB in size using ODB

Sharing sends a link to the file, rather than the file itself – keeping the file under your control, rather than out in the wild.

One source of the truth, rather than multiple versions emailed around

Versioning supported in ODB

Delve: The Artist Formerly Known as Oslo

Built on Office Graph The Office Graph uses sophisticated machine learning techniques to

connect you to the relevant documents, conversations, and people around you.

Better than search, information finds you. Proactively discovers personalized content for

you without you needing to search.

Takes information out of silos and presents it to you as a unified, combined experience.

There are private activities, like what documents you viewed, and public activities, like the people you follow in Yammer. Private activities always stay private.

Delve: The Artist Formerly Known as Oslo

Delve: The Artist Formerly Known as Oslo

Yammer conversations in OWA

Links and More Info:

Office 365 Admin Guides: http://officeignitelabs.cloudguides.com/Office%20365%20Guides.htm

Office 365 Customer Success Center: http://success.office.com/

Yammer Admin Guide: https://about.yammer.com/success/activate/admin-guide/

Yammer Success Center: https://about.yammer.com/success/

Delve and the Office Graph: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/11/introducing-codename-oslo-and-the-office-graph/

Work Like a Network: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/03/work-like-a-network-enterprise-social-and-the-future-of-work/