Most organizations are looking at moving some of their workloads to the cloud and Microsoft is strongly encouraging them to do so. However, most organizations are also wary of putting business critical or sensitive information in the public domain. Learn what challenges exist as you embark on building a hybrid environment combining SharePoint on-premises with Office 365.

1. Challenges in Building Out A Hybrid
On-Prem/Office 365 Solution
Ben Robb, MVP

2. About me
Microsoft MVP for SharePoint
since 2007
Co-organizer of the London SP user
group
ECM and collaboration specialist

3. This session
• Audience:
• Architects
• Project Managers
• Technical Decision Makers
• Business stakeholders
What does a hybrid
deployment look like?
What are the technical
challenges in implementing a
hybrid deployment?
What are the business
challenges in implementing a
hybrid deployment?
WARNING: NO CODE. NO DEMOS.

4. Why would you need a
hybrid environment?
Large legacy deployment
Content
Lots of
legacy code
Compliance concerns
Data
residency
Regulations
Functional limitations
Some workloads not fully
supported in O365
Content
lifecycle
“Betting
the farm”
Change management
overheads
BI Publishing

5. Hybrid Models
Gradual migration Forever Hybrid Point Solutions

6. What technology
challenges are there?
Search MMS Profiles and Social
ALM Operations Upgrade cycles

7. Search
End user experience – do they need unified
search?
Keep your search configurations in sync
Supported topologies exist for one-way and two-
way search
Which topology do I
need?

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