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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted communications and collaboration products in a single desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Exchange Online gives you access to enterprise class email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices."Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" is a practical hands-on tutorial that shows small businesses to enterprises how to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. This book also places an emphasis on setting up a Hybrid and migrating from Exchange on-premise to Exchange Online. "Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" will show small businesses to enterprises the steps to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. The book starts by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. The book then dives into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment and migration amongst others.

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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
May, 2012 | 268 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Office 365 plans
Office 365 for Small Businesses and Professionals—considerations and limitations
Office 365 for Enterprises
When to use a plan and when to pick à la carte
Options to start your subscription
The sign-up process
Summary
2
Getting Familiar with the Office 365 Admin Portal
Getting Familiar with the Office 365 Admin Portal
Logging in for the first time and adding your domain
Navigating the Administration Overview interface
Exchange Online administration interface
Summary
3
Integration Options for Small Businesses and Professionals
Integration Options for Small Businesses and Professionals
Business scenarios
Working with a server
Managing user accounts
Working with PowerShell
Summary
4
Integration Options for Enterprises
Integration Options for Enterprises
Directory Synchronization
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Exchange Hybrid
Non-Exchange messaging systems
Summary
5
Preparing for a Simple Migration
Preparing for a Simple Migration
A simple migration
Migration options
The migration process—in a nutshell
Planning for migration
Preparing your environment for migration
Summary
6
Performing a Simple Migration
Performing a Simple Migration
Migration from non-Exchange Server systems
Migrating from Exchange Server
Summary
7
Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration
Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration
Preparing your Office 365 subscription
Active Directory preparation and readiness check
Basic infrastructure preparation
Defining the migration process
Summary
8
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: ADFS
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: ADFS
Deploying Active Directory Federation Services
Summary
9
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Directory Synchronization
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Directory Synchronization
Deploying Directory Synchronization
Summary
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Deploying Exchange Hybrid
Summary
11
Performing a Hybrid Migration
Performing a Hybrid Migration
Preparing the end user for Office 365
Performing a migration from the Exchange Management Console
Performing a migration using PowerShell cmdlets
Summary
12
Post Migration Considerations
Post Migration Considerations
On-premise resource changes
Changing your MX record in a Hybrid configuration
Summary
References
References
Office 365
Exchange
Third-party tools or add-ons
Author's blogs
Index
Index

When to use a plan and when to pick à la carte

Now that you know a bit more about the small business and enterprise subscription levels, let's delve deeper into helping you make a choice between them.

The enterprise plans contain a similar feature set to the small business plan, but are able to go above and beyond the limitations of the small business plan.

Some key benefits are:

  • None of the limitations to the small business plan apply

  • No limit on the amount of users

  • Ability to mix and match license types

Let's look at some scenarios where you might choose one subscription type over the other:

Scenario

Plan choice

Professional services firm of 6 people:

Planning to grow to 30 people within 3 years

small business

Start-up recruitment firm of 10 people:

planning to grow to 70 within 2 years

Enterprise:

E2

Established audio engineering company of 27 users:

Have been operating for 9 years

No growth plans

small business

Architectural firm of 12 people:

Have been operating for 6 years

No growth plans

Need storage space for drawings

Enterprise:

E1

SharePoint Additional Storage

Call center company with 40 staff:

10 in the office all day, 5 remote workers

25 shift-based call center staff who don't have their own PCs and simply need access to e-mail and the company intranet

Enterprise:

E1 (15)

K1 (25)

Franchise coffee house with 40 staff:

30 staff at head office

10 franchise managers

Want to perform Business Intelligence with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise on-premise, let franchise managers access the reports

Enterprise:

E1 (10)

E3 (30)

Medical services with 120 staff:

Exchange 2010 on-premise

Using other intranet system

15 staff require video conferencing

Enterprise:

Lync Online Plan 2 (15)

Hospitality services company with 700 staff:

Exchange 2003 on-premise

300 staff at head office

400 staff spread across 8 offices

Legacy phone system, want IM and presence, video conferencing for management

SharePoint on-premise, heavily integrated with CRM and other systems

Enterprise:

Exchange Online Plan 1 (700)

Lync Online Plan 1 (600)

Lync Online Plan 2 (100)

Financial services company of 5,000 staff nationwide

Lotus Notes

25 percent of workforce is permanently mobile

10 percent of workforce primarily limited to Line of Business Application

Has Enterprise Agreement which includes Office

Enterprise:

E1 (4,500)

K2 (500)

Automotive manufacturer of 30,000 staff globally

GroupWise

IBM WebSphere for intranet

Cisco CallManager telephony with Unified Comms

30 percent of workforce is factory-based

Has Enterprise Agreement which includes Office

Enterprise:

Exchange Online Plan 1 (17,000)

Exchange Online Plan 2 (3,000)

Exchange Online Kiosk (10,000)

As you can see there are quite a number of choices and scenarios available to organizations of all types and sizes. Making the correct choice involves identifying the requirements and which options address them.

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