Office 365Business Continuity Management

Presentation by Bryan Porter, SteadyRain Chief Technology Officer

About Bryan Porter• Former Microsoft SharePoint Product Team Member• Microsoft Certified Master• SharePoint 2007• SharePoint 2010

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Master – SharePoint• Microsoft Certified Master / Solutions Master Instructor

Team• Chief Technology Officer and General Nerd, SteadyRain

If you ever…• Attempt to create an Alternate Access Mapping with a

URL longer than 156 characters• Attempt to perform a Project Server 2010 upgrade to

2013 by upgrading multiple Project Server 2010 database sets simultaneously...

You’re Welcome

and it works…

Introducing the Fault Domain

Refining the Fault Domain.

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Common Fault Domains• Database Level• Mitigated with Database Mirroring• Mitigated with Failover Clustering

• Disk Level• Mitigated with RAID

• Network Level• Server Level

Office 365 and BCM• No Server Code• No File System Artifacts of Any Kind• No Database Level Migrations• No Custom Managed Paths• No Individual Secure Store Target Applications• …

Bottom Line: BCM is Hard• Specialist Skill• Backing Into BCM can be Exceptionally Difficult• Proper BCM Execution Almost Always Outstrips

Capacity Needs• BCM is a process that must be tested

How Can Office 365 Help?• BCM is a part of the managed service offering• No network design required of you• No content database sizing / management / planning• No disk, authentication*, server lifecycle, service planning

• BCM is integrated to the platform• Availability Characteristics are Fixed & Unchanging• No exception for high-priority business units• Would be hard pressed to exceed the availability

characteristics in Office 365 without a very large checkbook

BCM and Office 365

How We Did It

Needs & Capabilities

Requirements

• Searchable Content• Lots of Storage (1TB+)• Immediate Access to

High-Value Content• Durable Access to High-

Value Content• Single Sign-On• Facility Survivability

Solution

• On-Premises SharePoint Installation• Hybrid Deployment for

Search Federation• “Content Stratification” –

High Value Documents in Office 365• ADFS for Single Sign-On• Damn the Building

Single Sign-On• Posed a Special Challenge• Primary Fault Domain Across On-Premises – Office 365

Boundary• Without our ADFS server, we are dead in the water –

no matter our content / service storage solution

Azure + Virtual Network + VM• Deployed a Virtual Network between SteadyRain’s

Internal Network and Windows Azure• Deployed an AD DC to Windows Azure in an Extra

Small VM• Deployed an ADFS instance to Windows Azure in an

Extra Small VM• Deployed an ADFS instance to VM at SteadyRain for

local authentication• Configured Split-DNS for ADFS instance

DemoExploring Our Deployment

Great – How Much?• Virtual Machines - ~$19.00 / Month• Virtual Network - ~$37.00 / Month• Storage - ~$10.00 / Month• Storage Transactions - ~$5.00 / Month• Bandwidth - ~$1.00 / Month

Total - $72.00 / MonthHaving a Durable, Fault Tolerant Solution - Priceless

Last Point – The Ugly Bits• Content Stratification Requires Discipline• Lots of potential “solutions”• Ultimately requires a lot of cooperation from your user base• On-Premises Farm configuration can help with this

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