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2. Rik Dekker
Cas van Iersel
Pitfalls and Success Factors of an
Office 365 Implementation
3. Agenda
• Our Office 365 experience
– Project
– Approach
– Deployment
• The development challenges
– OOTB quick wins
– Sandbox troubles
– Power of the Client
4. What is Office 365?
Online Versions of Microsoft Software
in the Cloud
5. Licenses
• Office 365 for professionals and small
businesses (Plan P)
• Office 365 for midsize businesses and
enterprises
– Kiosk worker (Plan K family)
– Information worker (Plan E family)
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7. The project
• Large Office 365 implementation
– 4500 users (of which 3000 kiosk users)
– Social intranet
Personal landingspage Aggregated news Aggregated discussions
My colleagues per Workflows Forms
department
Collaboration portal Personalised actions Last changed /
important documents
Respond Support mobile devices View documents in
browser
8. Why Office 365 for this project?
• Different type of users
– Single Sign On with AD sync
• High availability
• No extra IT staffing needed
• Good cost overview
• Secure
9. Biggest succes factor
• Microsoft takes care of IT
– Updates
• Hotfixes, Service Packs
– Upgrades
• New functionality like BCS
– Scaling
• Extra capacity
10. The approach
• Agile (7 sprints)
– Product backlog
Per sprint
– Stayed as close as possible to OOTB
• Configuration
• Styling
– If required then custom development
11. The team
• Product owner
• Project manager customer
• Developer
– NL and India
• Designer
• Architect/team lead
• Project manager
12. Tools
• Visual Studio
– Powerfull tool for developers
– Only sandboxed solutions for Office365
Development takes more time
• SharePoint Designer
– Rapid development
– Reusable workflows required for our project
13. DTAP environment
• Local development machine
• Test in the cloud
• Acceptance/Production in the cloud
Risk for early adoptors (beta products)
Sandbox solutions makes deployment easy
Office365 environment is quickly available
15. Deployment challenges
• How to deploy the site structure?
Normal way of deployment not possible:
• No PowerShell
• No console apps
• No content database copy
16. Deployment solution
Options:
• Site templates
• Migration tools
– Different tools available
Tool together with Web templates
Deployment more difficult
17. Lessons learned
• Some 3d party tools not usable
• Rapid development with the right tools
• Limitations of Sandbox asks for more
creativity
• Use web templates for deployment
• Environment quickly available
• New functionality added to Office365
18. Summary
With Office365 you can create powerfull
solutions like on premise. You just need
some more creativity