2. Agenda
Introduction
What is Office 365?
Office 365 plans
Getting started with Office 365
Identity Management
Directory Synchronization
Notes from the field
Useful Resources
3. What is Office 365?
Productivity Applications
Microsoft Office Project & Visio Office Mobile Office Online
Productivity Services
Exchange Online Lync Online SharePoint Online Yammer
Shared
Services
• Provisioning
• Identity
Management
• System
Monitoring
• Licensing
4. Office 365 Plans
Office 365 licenses are grouped into plans
Business, Enterprise, Education, Government and
Nonprofit plans
Same features, different eligibility criteria and pricing
Business plans have a 300 user limit
Kiosk plans are available for deskless workers
Individual service plans are also available
Different plan families are allowed on the same tenant
5. Office 365 Plan Comparison
Business Essentials Business Business Premium E1 ProPlus E3
User Maximum 300 300 300 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Full, installed Office applications
Office for tablets
Office for smartphones
Office Online
File storage and sharing
Business-class email
Unlimited online meetings
Intranet site for your teams
Social networking
Personalized search and discovery
Enterprise App management
Self-service Business Intelligence
Compliance Information
Protection
eDiscovery Center
6. Getting started with Office 365
1 • Sign up for a trial tenant at deploy.office.com
2 • Add and verify custom domains
3 • Configure DNS
4 • Provision user accounts (Manually/DirSync)
5 • Assign licenses
7. Getting started with a tenant
Sign up for a trial at deploy.office.com
E3 trial recommended
Consider your tenant name carefully
8.
9. Demo
Add and verify custom domains
DNS configuration
10. Identity Management
Azure Active Directory:
– The shared identity platform behind Office 365
– Integrates with enterprise identity platforms
– Enables single sign-on
– Should *not* be confused with running your AD
Domain Controllers as VMs in Azure
Three identity management models:
– Cloud Identities
– Synchronized Identities
– Federated Identities
11. Cloud Identities
No additional hardware
Great if you are “cloud only”
Multiple credentials
Authentication
Azure Active Directory
User
Manual Creation
.CSV Import
Authorization
12. Synchronized Identities
Up to 2 additional servers
Syncs a hash of password hash
Same sign-on
Authentication
Azure Active Directory
User
On-premises
Active Directory
Authorization
DirSync
13. Federated Identities
Minimum of 3 additional servers
Authentication occurs on-premises
Single sign-on
Azure Active Directory
Authentication
User
On-premises
Active Directory
Authorization
DirSync
On-premises
AD FS One-way trust
14. Which identity management model??
Cloud identities work great if you don’t have an on-premises
AD, for testing or simple pilots
Synchronized identities enable same sign-on without the
need for federation
Consider synchronized identities unless you specifically
require federation
Federation enables true single sign-on and can be
leveraged for other SaaS applications
It is possible to change models – keep it simple!
15. Directory Synchronization (DirSync)
Used to sync user, group and contact objects from on-premises
AD to Azure AD (Office 365)
Allows these objects to be administered using existing
on-premises processes
Users are logon enabled, but not automatically licensed
to use services
Ability to sync only a subset of your users through OU,
domain-based or user attribute filtering
16. DirSync vs AAD Sync?
Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AAD
Sync) is a new sync service
Enables sync'ing multi-forest AD environments without
the complexity of FIM
Allows advanced provisioning, mapping and filtering
rules for objects and attributes
Enables multiple on-premises Exchange organizations
to map to a single tenant
17. DirSync Requirements
Windows Server 2008 with SP1 or later
It must be joined to the on-premises AD
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and 4.5.1
Objects in AD CPU Memory Hard disk size
Fewer than 10,000 1.6 GHz 4 GB 70 GB
10,000–50,000 1.6 GHz 4 GB 70 GB
50,000–100,000 1.6 GHz 16 GB 100 GB
100,000–300,000 1.6 GHz 32 GB 300 GB
300,000–600,000 1.6 GHz 32 GB 450 GB
More than 600,000 1.6 GHz 32 GB 500 GB
18. DirSync Considerations
The UserPrincipalName attribute (UPN) must be known
to the user and publicly routable
Sync’d attributes cannot be blank, have spaces or
invalid characters
SQL server required if on-premises AD has more than
50,000 objects
Need to contact support if sync’ing more than 50,000
objects
Usually easier to set the UPN to match email address
20. Notes from the field
Workstation readiness is often overlooked and could
cause large project delays
Most AD environments will require some remediation –
IDFix can help!
Using an internet proxy? Bypass the proxy for Office
365 URLs
Consider license assignment and management
21. Useful Resources
• Office 365 Deployment Center -
https://deploy.office.com/
• IdFix DirSync Error Remediation Tool -
http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/
download/details.aspx?id=36832
• The Garage Series for Office 365 -
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-Garage-
Series-for-Office-365
G’day, thank you all for coming. Welcome to the last technical session of the day “Getting started with Office 365”
My name is Chris Goosen and I’m an Office 365 MVP
Personal Intro
As an introduction, I’ll give you a little more background about myself. I have an Microsoft infrastructure background, working mostly with Microsoft Exchange server and in recent years as we have seen more and more customers look to the cloud for solutions that has evolved and I’ve started doing a lot more with Exchange Online and supporting technologies in Office 365
If we look at our agenda today, we’ll cover a few things that are important when getting started with Office 365. To frame the discussion, we’ll have a look at what office 365 is
I do have a couple of short demos that will help break up the powerpoint and show you some of the things we’ll talk about
I’d like this session to be interactive so we’ll have some time for Q&A at the end of the session, but feel free to let me know if you have any questions as we go as well
Audience Questions:
Anyone currently using or planning to start using Office 365?
Office 365 Home/Personal which are subscriptions that allow the installation of the Office suite and include online storage and Skype calling minutes.
Office 365 for business plans are again broken down.. Also have:
Education plans
Government plans
Nonprofit plans
Individual service plans for Exchange Online or online storage, file sync and sharing with OneDrive for Business.
Mix and match plans now possible: http://blogs.office.com/2014/07/09/evolving-office-365-plans-for-small-and-midsized-businesses/
AAD Sync is Intended for more advanced configurations
Installation on DC is not supported, but isn’t recommended for production use.
All customers of Azure Active Directory and Office 365 have a default object limit of 50,000 mail-enabled objects. When you verify your first domain, this object limit is automatically increased to 300,000 objects.