Best Practices: Migration to Office 365

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Are you considering migrating to Office 365? Here are 4 reasons why you should: Third-generation platform Limited configuration and maintenance required Corporate Active Directory Frequently updated/patched To learn more from C/D/H's Cloud experts click here to view the presentation. For more information on this or other topics, please visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.

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Migration to Office 365

About C/D/H

About C/D/H

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Your Presenters

Amy MooreDirector of Client Service: ApplicationsMBA | MCDBA | MCTS

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Your Presenters

Jeff KinnellyConsultant

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Why Office 365?

• Third-generation platform• Limited configuration and

maintenance required• Integration with corporate Active

Directory• Frequently updated/patched

Why Office 365?

• Mobile ready• Great for extranets• Share content with anyone• Third-party products

– Migration tools– Governance– Integration– Workflow

Why Office 365?

• Office Web Apps• SkyDrive Pro• Office On Demand• Yammer• Project Online• Azure

What’s different?

• No server-side code• Client-side object model• Limited BI capabilities• Search – black box• Branding differences• Limited public website capabilities

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-online-service-description.aspx

Case Study – Citizens Bank

SharePoint 2007 to Office 365 hybrid for Citizens Bank

Case Study - Requirements

• Upgrade collaboration sites• Low impact branding solution• Multi-purpose site template• Office 365 pilot Hybrid

Case Study - Approach

• Some sites were upgraded to on premise farm via database attach

• The remaining sites were migrated to Office 365 using Metalogix software

• Test upgrades were performed for all sites• Branding solution was created for both

environments and looks the same• Seamless for end users

Case Study - Results

Implementation Tips

Client side libraries are your friend• Can be called within display templates• jQuery and custom plug-ins

• jRespond• jPanelMenu

Case Study - Takeaway

Migration tools are worth every penny

Questions?

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