SharePoint Online as an Enterprise, Collaboration Platform

1. SharePoint Online as an Enterprise, Collaboration Platform Greater Idaho SharePoint Users Group September 25, 2013 Pete Hohenhaus, Presenter

2. SharePoint Online/O365 • History. • BPOS – Business Productivity Online Services. • Hosting Companies. • SharePoint Online Dedicated. • SharePoint Online Multitenant. • O365.

3. Pete Thesis • Multitenant SharePoint Online is a perfectly good platform for collaboration across the enterprise. • Multitenant SharePoint Online is, in fact, preferable to SharePoint on premises in several key ways.

4. Models • Everything SharePoint on Premises – SPOP. • Everything SharePoint Online – SPO. • “Pete” or Hybrid Model – PHYBRID • Main collaboration on SPO. • Every service that can be deployed online goes online. • And, any important service not on SPO is maintained on prem. • SSRS, PPS, etc.

5. O365 • O365. • First focus – Exchange Online. • Most developed. • Office. • SharePoint Online. • Growth area.

6. Case for SPO • Universality of access/mobility • Anytime • Anywhere • Any device • Focus on basics of SharePoint, SharePoint as • A Collaboration Platform • An Information Management Utility • External parties invitation and access • Coherent, standard approach to logon

7. Case for SPO • More frequent updates (quarterly) • Direct approach to administration and management • Immediate recoverability • Multi-geographic, data center backup • Leverage other O365 components. • ADFS integration. • Only on prem hardware/software are Proxy, ADFS, and Dir Sync servers

8. The Core of The Case for SPO • SharePoint Online encourages, supports, and enables us to spend the bulk of our time helping users to get the most out of SharePoint and INFORMATION!!! • (Not troubleshooting and maintaining hardware and software) • (Don’t worry there are always quirks)

9. And … • Custom and App development largely gets divorced from the core of SharePoint!

10. Case Against SPO • Cost • Still have to logon • No easy across-the-board customization • Can’t do real business intelligence • Can’t search on premises file shares, etc. • Can’t do remote blog storage

11. Cost • No, not any more • Lots of licensing plans • Phased transition, adoption • Microsoft incentives • In fact, SharePoint Online may well, in many cases, be less expensive than on premises

12. Still have to logon • Not completely transparent yet, but • Standard, secure logon • Basically once a day, 8 hour timeout • Really isn’t some logon more secure • Remote access requires logon anyway

13. No easy across-the-board customization • First, you can create templates and use them on a site collection by site collection basis • Second, with logo’s, themes, etc., configuration provides lots of identity • Thirdly, so what, customization has always been overrated

14. Can’t do real business intelligence • Well, maybe, but not for long • Excel service • Publishing from Excel 2013 • And POWER BI!!! • Power BI to the Cloud, first

15. Can’t search on premises material • No, not true, use of a “reverse proxy” server accomplishes this

16. Can’t do remote blog storage • Well, not entirely true • There is a complex way of essentially doing this • Azure

17. Hybrid Models • Do everything you can in the cloud • Create minimal on premises deployments to support SharePoint Online and do the things on premises that you can’t do online • And, I wager there will be less and less of that …

18. Migration, and the like • Think about build structure – site collections – and copy/moving content • Think about on premises to online site collection copy/moving • Metalogix • MetaVis • dSHIFT

19. Come to the Cloud • It is the future of SharePoint • It is the future of Microsoft • Services and devices • It is very groovy, and • I like it!