thomas verwer – deploying hybrid office 365 in a server based computing concept
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DEPLOYING HYBRID OFFICE 365 IN A SERVER BASED COMPUTING CONCEPT
Speaker: Thomas VerwerCompany: Rapid CirclePosition: Technical Consultant
Who Am I?Thomas Verwer
Technical Consultant at Rapid Circle and P-Technology Solution Professional at Microsoft with a passion for Office 365, Exchange and everything that’s hybrid
Twitter: @thomasverwerBlog: www.thomasverwer.comWebsite: www.rapidcircle.com
Who Are We?Rapid Circle
We are specialized in the Microsoft Cloud, Office 365, Azure, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility.
Twitter: @rapidcircleWebsite: www.rapidcircle.com
Offices in Amsterdam, Pune (India) and Melbourne.
Founded in 2008 with a cloud only vision
Originally a SharePoint company, nowadays a full cloud service-provider.
Carried out one of the first Office 365 deployments in Europe..
AGENDA• Some background information• What makes this deployment complex• How to envision and design the hybrid solution• Migration scenario’s and workarounds for Exchange• Following the right pilot approach• Measuring and managing performance• How to handle OneDrive for Business• How to handle Office 365 ProPlus• Partnership Citrix & Microsoft
WHAT MAKES THIS DEPLOYMENT CHALLENGING?• Caching .ost files on a network drive is not seen much• Microsoft does not support to sync a OneDrive folder location
which is set to a network drive. • Office 365 ProPlus requires approx. 20% more computing
resources (GPU,CPU and memory)• Making use of the online Office Licensing Service with shared
computer activation is tricky
WHO ARE WE LOOKING AT?• The Pareto principle (also known as the
80/20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
• We have often been observed to make 80% of use cases easier to implement and 20% of use cases much more difficult to implement
• This rule aligns perfectly with our design and stakeholders within the organization
HOW TO ENVISION AND DESIGN THE HYBRID SOLUTION• Take the most effort in gathering all personas within the
organization• Align these personas with technical profiles and Office 365
services• Take cloud connectivity and network architecture very
seriously• Decide with the client how performance will be measured• Talk about assigning the right license to the right persona
MIGRATION SCENARIO’S AND WORKAROUNDS FOR EXCHANGE
BUT WHY EXCHANGE HYBRID?User Experiences
• Migrate with minimum business impact
• Free Busy functionality• No recreating Outlook Profiles• Amazing flexibility while
migrating mail• One Global Address List• Secure hybrid mailflow• Only approach to pilot
thoroughly for a longer periodMigration Experience
Office 365Exchangeon-premises
Mailbox dataMRS
Rich coexistence
SMALL RECAP..HYBRID FLEXIBILITY REALLY KICKS ASS • Especially when organizations work in a SBC concept• It gives the projectteam the ability to make small steps forward,
and backwards if required• Performing a cut-over migration would be a to big step or risk• With Modern Auth users won’t even notice Windows Auth prompts
at mailbox moves
FOLLOWING THE RIGHT PILOT APPROACH• Make sure all your personas are part of the pilot• Be sure pilot waves are in line with the clients organization
chart• Don’t pilot Office 365 ProPlus and Exchange Online at the
same time• Take great effort in setting up communication and manuals• Be sure bandwidth and performance monitoring software is in-
place• The longer the pilot the better
MEASURING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE• Discuss performance in the very first meeting, be
transparent about expectations with your stakeholders• Be sure to do a very thorough technical assessment, don’t
forget CDN’s• After that get in touch with your personas to hear their
experiences• Remember the pareto principle (80/20) and get in touch
with your heavy users• Have workarounds in-place for heavy-users, at the end
caching is the best concept for them
HOW TO HANDLE ONEDRIVE FOR BUSINESS• What is the user used to? • Is it fair to ask users to start
working in the browser instead of windows explorer?
• Adoption is key to success here• Next-Gen sync client is an
improvement
OPTION #1 THE ONEDRIVEMAPPER• A free PowerShell script, with no
warranty • Can be used as a logon or on demand
script to map a OneDrive for Business location to driveletters.
• It has been downloaded over 90000 times and works like a charm
• Network dependency and bandwidth impact
OPTION #2 THIRD-PARTY SOLUTIONS• Not free, but this solution brings some
warranty• User data remains on-premises
fileshares• No use of WebDAV protocol but bi-
directional sync• Cloud Connector or ExpanDrive?
HOW TO HANDLE OFFICE 365 PROPLUS• Don’t forget Office Telemetry before rolling out• Requires more GPU than earlier Office versions• Don’t forget setting the <Property
Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" /> in the configuration.xml
• Make sure Hardware Acceleration is not enabled at Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous > Do not use hardware graphics acceleration.
• Remember to pilot and release Office separate from other workloads to be sure
PARTNERSHIP CITRIX & MICROSOFT
• It’s another sign of the new pragmatic Microsoft, where they care about driving more Azure consumption
• Microsoft will gradually wind down the delivery of Azure RemoteApp over the next year. Support ends 31st August 2017.
• Citrix and Microsoft develop the next generation of the Azure RemoteApp service hand in hand. The new XenApp "express" service.
• Last week Citrix Provisioning for Microsoft Office 365 as a Citrix Cloud Labs service became available
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