The document presents the top 10 takeaways from Microsoft Ignite 2015, emphasizing the push towards Office 365 and the diminishing importance of the SharePoint brand. It highlights new features, enhanced security capabilities, and easier migration options to the cloud, asserting that Microsoft aims to provide a cohesive user experience across its products. Overall, the document underscores Microsoft's commitment to evolving its services and encouraging organizations to adopt its cloud offerings.

1. Presenters:
Daniel Cohen-Dumani
Jill Hannemann
Chris Poteet
10 Most Impactful Takeaways
From Microsoft Ignite 2015

2. About Us 2
Daniel Cohen-Dumani
CEO
Portal Solutions
@dcohendumani
Jill Hannemann
Director of Advisory Services
Portal Solutions
@JHCherryBlossom
Chris Poteet
Senior Consultant
Portal Solutions
@chrispoteetpro

3. About Portal Solutions 3
We deliver digital workplace
products and solutions that
help organizations share
what they know and find
what they need by
connecting people, data,
and content.

4. Agenda
Review of Ignite 2015 – Next Generation News
Top 10 Takeaways
The Impact From The News
Timeline For Movement
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5. Ready-To-Go Portals
• Ready-to-go Portals alleviate the
need for extensive customization
and provide solutions to common
information needs.
• Some of the next-gen portals:
 Office 365 Video Portal
 Delve People Experience
 Micro-sites
 Office 365 Groups
 The new InfoPedia Portal
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6. Nextgen Portals 6

7. New Interactive Tools
• “InfoPedia”, Groups, Delve and others are intended to make the user
experience contextual, easy and reusable.
• These tools improve social collaboration and co-creation between
knowledge workers, enhance overall productivity, drive innovation and
business process transformation within organizations, and help
workers to achieve more.
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8. Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365
• Encryption at rest for
Emails (Exchange), Files
(OneDrive and
SharePoint)
• Enhanced Right
Management
• Data Loss Prevention
“DLP” for OneDrive and
SharePoint
• Customer LockBox
• Azure KeyVault
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9. Easier Options For Migrating To The Cloud
• Microsoft wants to make it easier to
move to Office 365 and Azure
 Supports for faster migration (API and ISV
supports)
 Automate migration of virtual machines to
Azure (MS and ISVs products)
 Drive shipping, Express Route and other
new capabilities for enhanced hybrid
scenario
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10. 10 Key Takeaways (1-5)
Microsoft Wants You To Move To Office 365
The SharePoint Brand Is Becoming Less Important And Will Disappear
Overtime
Microsoft Wants To Provide As Much Of The User Experience As Possible
Hybrid Installations Are Viable Options
Migrating To The Cloud Is Getting Easier
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11. 10 Key Takeaways (6-10)
Embracing The New Features Is Important: Modernize The Way You
Manage Knowledge
Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365
Office 365 Graph Is Everywhere
Machine Learning Will Change The Way You Work
Microsoft Is Changing, Microsoft Is Evolving
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12. Key Takeaways
• Microsoft has made it clear that it wants
the majority of its clients in their SaaS
infrastructure.
• All future innovation comes to Microsoft
cloud offerings long before they make it
to the on premise product, and some
never make it there (i.e. Delve, Office
Videos, nextgen Portal, Yammer).
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Microsoft Wants You To Move To Office 365

13. Key Takeaways
• The SharePoint brand is being broken up more into discrete parts and being
distributed across the platform.
• One example is Office 365 groups, which has various parts from SharePoint
including integration from other server tools such as Exchange.
• Count on less of an emphasis on “SharePoint” and more and more on “Office
365.”, next gen portals.
• SharePoint Server 2016 release to focus on user experience (mobile), cloud
inspired infrastructure, and compliance and reporting
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2 The SharePoint Brand Is Becoming Less Important And Will Disappear Overtime

14. Key Takeaways
• In line with the drive to move clients to Office 365, Microsoft has made clear
they want to provide the UX grid for all of their products.
• Your organization has to make a decision if the move to the cloud warrants the
loss of a lot of control over the interface and ultimately much of the experience
itself.
 Opportunity to create your own User Experience for Office 365
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Microsoft Wants To Provide As Much Of The User Experience As Possible

15. Key Takeaways
• Microsoft wants to provide support
for hybrid options for organizations
that are reticent about the move to
Office 365.
• A big investment is being made in
SharePoint Server 2016 to support
hybrid scenarios.
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Hybrid Installations Are Viable Options

16. Key Takeaways
• Microsoft has introduced new ways to migrate content to the cloud
 Migration APIs which increase throughput up to 30x
 Leverage Azure as an interim place to source content for migration
• Azure Express Route for Office 365
 Dedicated virtual channel between your data center and Office 365
 Less latency and better control on performance and security
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5 Migrating To The Cloud Is Getting Easier

17. Key Takeaways
• Leverage the new features to improve your productivity, security, compliance
and reuse of knowledge
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6 Embracing The New Features Is Important: Modernize The Way You
Manage Knowledge

18. Key Takeaways
• Security remains a big concerns of organizations looking at cloud services
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7 Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

19. Poll
Has your position on security of Microsoft Cloud
(Office 365/Azure) changed in the past 12 months?
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20. Key Takeaways 20
Office 365 Express Route
Customer LockBox
7 Enhanced Security Capabilities In Office 365

21. Key Takeaways
• The Office Graph is gaining more and
more emphasis from Microsoft. (Email
and Yammer signals)
• There are new enhancements to Delve
including new user profiles and new
magazine articles.
• The Office Graph continues to expand
all the time with new “signals.”
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8 Office 365 Graph Is Everywhere

22. Key Takeaways
“Office Delve – Discovery exactly what you need when you need it.” ~Microsoft
Machine learning to map the relationships between people, content and
interactions that occur across Office 365.
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9 Machine Learning Will Change The Way You Work

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10 Microsoft Is Changing, Microsoft Is Evolving

24. What Are The Impacts? 24
Should I Migrate or Rebuild?
Hybrid Cloud
When to move to Office 365

25. When Are The Changes Taking Place?
• Public Beta Fall 2015
• General Release Q2 2016SharePoint
Server 2016
• Continuous updates
• People Delve Profile enhancements Q2
• Articles in People Profile Q3
• InfoPedia and Knowledge Management Portal Q1/Q2 2016
Office 365 Next
Gen
• Azure Express Route, Q3 2015
• DLP enhancements, Q3/Q4 2015
Security
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26. Resource To Learn More – blogs.office.com
• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/27/quick-tour-of-
office-365-recent-updates-and-whats-coming/
• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/22/office-365-
news-roundup-6/
• http://blogs.office.com/2015/05/20/recapping-
yammer-highlights-and-key-takeaways-from-ignite/
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What’s coming in the
next for Office 365, with
Julia White, GM for
Office 365
Office 365 News Round
Up
Yammer Highlights from
Ignite

27. What’s Next? 27
Will you upgrade?
Will you migrate to
Office 365?
How will you make Office
365 work for you?
Which platform makes
most sense
Be cloud ready
New features = lots of
opportunity

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