This document summarizes a presentation about Office 365 given by Alan Eardley. It introduces Eardley and his background. It then outlines the topics that will be covered in the presentation, including what Office 365 is, its capabilities for communication, content, collaboration and productivity. It also discusses how Office 365 can be customized, its benefits like cloud hosting and scalability, its roadmap, and potential prizes for attendees.

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Office 365
The Art of the Possible
Alan Eardley - @al_eardley
SQL & SharePoint Saturday
12 September 2015

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Who Am I?
• Lead SharePoint Technical Architect at CPS
• Developer, DBA, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Architect
• SQL Server 7.0 - 2014
• SharePoint 2003 – 2013
• Office 365, Azure, Project Server/Online, Dynamics CRM
• Twitter: @Al_Eardley
• E-mail: Alan.Eardley@Outlook.com
• Blog: http://blog.eardley.org.uk

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What will I cover?
• What is Office 365?
• What can it do?
• What can I make it do?
• What are the benefits?
• Where is it going?

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What is Office 365?

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First though …
• Who uses SharePoint?
• Who uses Exchange?
• Who uses Lync?
• Who uses Dynamics CRM?
• Who uses Project Server?
• Who uses the Office Suite?
• Who uses Office 365?
• Who uses OneDrive?
• Who uses Power BI?

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What is Office 365?
• Software as a Service
• Hosted by Microsoft
• A subscription to the services
• Cloud and device applications
can be covered

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What can it do?

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Communication
Yammer
Newsfeed
Skype for Business
Mail

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Content
OneDrive
Sites (formerly known as
SharePoint)
Video

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Collaboration
Sway
Delve
People

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Productivity
Tasks
Calendar

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Applications
CRM Online
Project Online
Azure

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Business Intelligence
Power BI
Excel

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Office
Word
PowerPoint
Excel
OneNote

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Other
Search
Groups
Blogs

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Administration

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Security
• Multi-factor authentication
– Phone
– Text
– App
• Sharing
– External users with Microsoft accounts
– Federated domains

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Mobile device management
• Enhanced security
– Password policies
– Prevent actions such as synchronisation
– Block removable storage
– Block Bluetooth
• App management
• Remote partial wiping

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Reporting
• Built in reports
• Access to additional reporting via PowerShell

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Licencing
All plans are subscription based and are managed through the administration
console
• Office 365 Business Essentials
• Office 365 Business
• Office 365 Business Premium
• Office 365 Enterprise E1
• Office 365 ProPlus
• Office 365 Enterprise E3

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Additional products
• Yammer Enterprise
• Social Engagement
• Dynamics Marketing
• Parature
• Azure AD Premium
• Azure Rights Management
• Visio
• InTune

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What can I make it do?

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A lot, but not everything
• Branding
• Process automation
– Forms
– Workflow
• Integrate with other systems

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But Azure can do anything
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Platform as a Service
– SQL databases
– SQL data warehousing
– Queues
– Web sites
– Worker roles
– Storage

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What are the benefits?

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Cloud
• Hosted by Microsoft
• High availability - built in
• Disaster recovery – built in
• Scalability – built in

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Feature parity (kind of)
• Familiar products
• Familiar features
• New features sooner
• No new versions or upgrades

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Where is it going?

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Roadmap
• “Next Gen” portals
– Delve
– Blogs
– Knowledge share
• Increased platform integration
– E.g. Groups
• Community support
– E.g. Office Dev PnP
http://success.office.com/en-us/roadmap

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Stick around for SWAG! (Prize drawing at 5.00 p.m)
• All our volunteers and organisers do not get paid for running SPS
SQLSaturday Cambridge and do it because they believe in the power of
community (or are just plain nuts). Please show your gratitude for making this
possible by:
– Giving them a hug
– Shaking their hand
– Saying thank you
– Coming back next year
– Consider getting your company to pay for a precon next year
– Speading the word
– Getting involved yourself
– But most of all, by enjoying the day!
• Don’t forget to thank the sponsors for their support
• Thank the speakers for donating their time, energy and expenses

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Stick around for SWAG! (Prize drawing at 5.00 p.m)
SQLCloud — XBox One!!! (make sure you know how to play the Jet Set Willy vendor competition!)
SQLCloud—Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here
Microsoft — MCP Voucher
Data Idols — Supercar Driving Experience
Profisee — Signed MDS Book and £50 Amazon Voucher
SQLSentry — Plan Explorer PRO License
Pyramid Analytics—Coffee Machine
Effektor — Lego Big Ben
Rencore — SPCAF Professional License (valued at $2099!)
Axioworks — Amazon Fire TV and £75 Amazon Voucher
DELL — Beats by Dr Dre Headphones
Redgate — DLM Workshop
Pluralsight — Annual Plus subscriptions
All Your Base Conference — 3 x Conference Tickets
VisualSP—Annual training subscription
Loads of books and much much more!!!

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Thank-you
Alan Eardley – Alan.Eardley@outlook.com
blog.eardley.org.uk
@al_Eardley
http://1drv.ms/1Oj0jj6
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