Anyone have any thoughts on this route or disadvantages using this? Friday, July 17, PM. It depends a lot on how many people you will be buying BPOS licenses for.
But you don't have that option with the Shared offering, which means you can't deploy anything containing a compiled DLL into the environment. So how do you qualify for Dedicated? You must have 5, users or more to purchase it. That's the deciding point, although I would imagine there's also a increased cost per user for the service as well. If you're comfortable with the feature set and functionality available with the Shared option, I think BPOS can make a lot of sense.
Its a stable platform, and no one knows more about SharePoint than Microsoft. The word is also that they want the Shared functionality to match the Dedicated functionality when SharePoint releases, so the story should improve in the next year or two when that upgrade goes through. Saturday, July 18, AM. This is probably better placed in the SharePoint Online forum.
Trying to move it there. Monday, July 20, PM. Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share on linkedin LinkedIn. Cyber Security Workshop Series. Microsoft Hands On Immersion Workshop. Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain. Video Resources. Popular on the blog. The ultimate goal of the migration process is to have a unified migration experience for end users with minimal impact to their daily routines. Deployment Phases When migrating to Exchange Online, you can expedite the deployment process by proceeding in three distinct phases: Plan, Prepare, and Migrate.
Organizing your deployment according to these phases provides your project team with high-level timeframes that control the pace of the deployment while keeping individual tasks serialized. It is not uncommon to overlap tasks outlined in the Plan phase and Prepare phase simultaneously and the Prepare phase and Migrate phase simultaneously. Table 1 also provides an overview the key tasks and events involved in each of the three phases.
Conduct a kickoff meeting. Develop and begin a service trial pilot plan. Develop and finalize your deployment plan. Kickoff Meeting Customers are encouraged to schedule a kickoff meeting to launch their Exchange Online deployment project.
The kickoff meeting can serve a number of purposes. You can use it to familiarize your project team members with the overall business perspective of the project. You can also review the solution alignment evaluation conducted prior to moving forward with your deployment using the Solution Alignment Questionnaire found in Appendix A.
This questionnaire is used to assess your messaging requirements and determine how well they align with the Exchange Online service offering. Another objective of the kickoff meeting is to help your team identify and prepare for deployment tasks or milestones that typically require a significant lead time to complete. In some cases, service trials may begin before and extend well past the Plan Phase. Organizations may choose to conduct a service trial prior to signing a Microsoft Online Services agreement and operate their trial up until the time of full organizational deployment.
The service trial enables your organization to conduct its own in-house testing—or pilot deployment—of Exchange Online and other BPOS Standard services. It helps you to identify and assess any service issues that might negatively impact your business prior to moving a significant number of individuals to Exchange Online.
A pilot deployment should confirm all systems are ready for full production deployments. Developing a pilot plan is recommended to help keep the pilot on track. Organizations typically start with about 10 users participating in the pilot. More users are added as confidence in overall system performance is demonstrated.
To represent a cross-section of your user population, the pilot may eventually grow to involve as many as users depending on the scope required to demonstrate that the services are performing at a satisfactory level across your organization.
It is recommended that you include geographical diversity in the pilot to reflect varying network and other real-world infrastructure variables. Note: Service trials have default limit of 20 users. You must submit a service request to include more users in your service trial. Pilot deployments are also designed to test migration processes against the various types of mailboxes that are found within your environment. Pilots should begin with a few simple mailboxes and grow in size and complexity to ensure that testing is based on a realistic migration experience.
Note: If your current messaging system includes Lotus Notes, the trial should also test access to Notes applications that may be left behind in the migration process. Figure 4 To sign up for your trial, you need access to an active e-mail account that is associated with a Microsoft Windows Live ID. The ID you sign up with should also be unique to Microsoft Online Services and should not be used with other Microsoft properties. It is important that the mailbox associated with the Windows Live ID be checked for new mail on a daily basis to receive announcements and service notifications from Microsoft Online Services.
Deployment Plan Development Customers typically make the decision to move forward with a full Exchange Online or BPOS Standard deployment after implementing and evaluating their service trial. If your organization determines it will move forward with the full deployment, you can formally begin to develop a deployment plan. The plan should define all of the key milestones and tasks required to deploy Exchange Online and other BPOS Standard services to which you subscribe.
For planning guidance, your organization is encouraged to review Appendix D: Deployment Planning Template. The template will help you identify the sequence of high-level and specific tasks that you should address in to create a complete end-to-end plan for all deployment and support integration activities. Long Lead Time Items One important objective of your project plan is to help you identify and address long lead time items. These items are tasks or milestones that have traditionally required a significant lead time to complete and have a higher risk of delaying the completion of the project if not addressed early in the implementation.
This is required to avoid Directory Synchronization Tool errors and conflicts. Many of these items are discussed in more detail in the Planning Considerations section that follows. Planning Considerations The following sections discuss long lead time and other critical items customers need to evaluate when developing the deployment plan.
The toolkit contains a number of planning documents that may be useful. Common Support Issues Table 2 lists the most common support issues reported for Exchange Online and BPOS Standard deployments and offers recommendations for how to proactively plan for them. Users may have ignored communications that provide their Online Services password, forgotten their password, or their password may have expired thereby preventing access to BPOS Standard services.
In some scenarios, an organization or user may have custom on-premises Outlook configurations that may pose a challenge during the deployment. In general, a pilot with a cross-section of business groups will help determine any potential challenges.
In most cases, Outlook configuration challenges are for a small subset of users. In the event of an outage, ensure your organization receives service notifications.
Most customers will not configuration have to do any special configurations or modifications. Yet, in some instances, your organization may require custom changes to the Sign In application. Conduct pilot testing of any changes to the Sign In application that are outside of the default configuration.
Due to the encrypted nature of the communication, it is a low security risk exception. Hardware requirements for Windows computers used to connect to Microsoft Online Services are shown in Table 3. Table 3. Table 4 shows the supported system and application software for clients. Table 4. NET Framework 3. Mail migrations from other platforms will require the use of non-Microsoft tools and processes. Mailbox Assessments You will need to assess the number of mailboxes, mailbox size, and the rate of mailbox size growth in your existing environment.
This information will help you evaluate the impact of migration traffic on your network, which must be considered when scheduling migrations. If your organization enforces maximum mailbox size limits, this information is also important to consider when you define Exchange Online storage capacities. Your new Exchange Online environment should let all users store the same amount of data or more in their Exchange Online mailboxes. It may be necessary for users with extra-large mailboxes to move some of that content from their mailboxes to some form of offline storage, such as a Microsoft Office Outlook.
PST file to facilitate timely mailbox migrations. In addition, when evaluating your existing mailbox inventory be aware that your organization receives 25 GB of mailbox space for each Exchange Online user license purchased. This means that if your organization purchases user licenses, it is allocated a total of 2. This paper discusses the most common public folder scenarios and how they are represented in Business Productivity Online Standard Suite services.
It also provides the information you need to decide whether Microsoft Online Services is a good match for you based on your current public folder usage. Details Version:.
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