Office 365 Integration Options - SharePoint Fest 2012
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Office 365 Integration Options
David Greve
What is Office 365
“….a cloud productivity solution that simplifies IT management and provides virtually anywhere access to familiar Office tools, email, file sharing, conferencing, and many more services.”
-Microsoft Marketing
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What is Office 365
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Office 365 Benefits
• Reduce costs – no hardware maintenance, reduction in administrative costs
• Flexible access for the user
• Operational effectiveness
• No data management concerns
• No need to upgrade because Microsoft does it
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Is Office 365 a Fit
• Organization footprint?
• Enough stable bandwidth?
• What applications do you leverage today?
• What system dependencies do you have?
• Can you remain current with your applications? (e.g., IE, Office Apps, etc.)
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Office 365 Integration Options
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Options Details
No Integration • Accounts created directly in Office 365
Directory Integration (Directory Sync) • Active Directory Synchronized to Office 365
Active Directory Authentication (ADFS) with Directory Sync
• Active Directory credentials are used to logon to all Office 365 services
Office 365 – No Integration
• Pros– Quick deployment
– Great for non-AD or Small Businesses
• Cons– Another separate logon for users
– Another area to try to keep accurate data
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Office 365 – No Integration
• Sample Architecture
– Non-synchronized, Office 365 is stand-alone
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Office 365 – No Integration
Portal Demo
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Office 365 – Directory Integration
• Pros– Moderately quick deployment
– Maintain a single location for directory information
• Cons– Another separate logon for users
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Office 365 – Directory Integration
• Sample Architecture
– Synchronized, AD is the anchor point for all directory objects
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Office 365 – Directory Integration
• Common attributes sync’ed to Office 365– Display Name, First, Last, etc.
– Company, Department, Manager, etc.
– Address, Phone numbers, etc.
– Country
– Home page
– Email addresses
• Common attributes are not sync’ed back, only specific Exchange Hybrid attributes
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2256198
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Office 365 – Directory Integration
Portal Demo
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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication
• Pros– Single logon from Active Directory
– Simplified applications logon
– Maintain a single location for directory information
• Cons– Deployment time, based on complexity of Auth
Requirements
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• Sample Basic Architecture
– Synchronized, AD is the anchor point for all directory objects and authentication
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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication
• Sample Architecture with Redundancy
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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication
Portal Demo
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Office 365 – Active Directory Authentication
Integration Options Summary
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Options Pros Cons
No Integration • Quick deployment• Great for non-AD or Small
Businesses
• Another separate logon for users
• Another area to try to keep accurate data
Directory Integration (Directory Sync)
• Moderately quick deployment
• Maintain a single location for directory information
• Another separate logon for users
Active Directory Authentication (ADFS) with Directory Sync
• Single logon from Active Directory
• Simplified applications logon
• Maintain a single location for directory information
• Deployment time, based on complexity of Auth Requirements
Office 365 Book
• Deployment architecture
• Directory Sync
• ADFS
• Chapters 4,7,8, and 9
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