With Office 365 constantly releasing new functionality, it is becoming difficult to deny the value Office 365 delivers over your current SharePoint on-prem environment. Whether you are completely transitioning to the cloud or are looking to set up a hybrid environment, attend this session to learn practical strategies for transitioning to Office 365. Join Kanwal Khipple as he explores strategies and how Microsoft and many customers are planning to take advantage of Office 365.

1. Practical Strategies for Transitioning
to Office 365
Whether you are completely transitioning to the cloud or are
looking to set up a hybrid environment, attend this session to
learn practical strategies for transitioning to Office 365.
Prepared By: Kanwal Khipple
12.06.2016

2. KANWAL KHIPPLE
My twitter handle is @kkhipple and I work at
SPEAKER | AUTHOR | AWARD WINNING DESIGNER

3. Microsoft offers the most comprehensive set of certifications and
attestations of any cloud service provider
CERTIFIED & COMPLIANT

4. How often have you dealt with downtime of SharePoint, Exchange, Active
Directory, etc?
MAINTAINING 99.9% SLA

5. Is maintaining infrastructure, maintenance, upgrades and/or migrations
part of your core business?
NOT YOUR CORE

6. There are three common approaches to transitioning to Office 365
PRACTICAL TRANSITION
STRATEGIES

7. What about tomorrows demands? Are you ready for those?
ARE YOU READY FOR TODAY’S DEMANDS?

8. 60%+ of workers are part of the mobile workforce
USERS WORKING
ANYWHERE…

9. We work with more people on a day-to-day basis today than ever before.
WE WORK WITH
MORE PEOPLE…
60% of employees report working with 10
or more people on a day-to-day basis.
Half of these employees
work with more than 20.

10. We also work with contractors, customers or partners more…
USERS WORK INSIDE
& OUTSIDE OF THE
ORGANIZATION

11. It is more challenging to meet expectations on legacy technology.
DON’T FALL
BEHIND…

12. Lack of technology adoption is the number one cause of failure for
companies
ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO SURVIVE

13. Is your organization adopting technology faster than it was 7 years ago?
“If the rate of change on the
outside exceeds the rate of
change on the inside, the end
is near.”
- Jack Welch

14. There are three common approaches to transitioning to Office 365
PRACTICAL TRANSITION
STRATEGIES
ENABLE
COMMUNICATION
ENABLE
COLLABORATION
ENABLE CLOUD

15. Imagine you change your GPS voice settings to Kanwal Khipple…
I AM GOING TO BE YOUR GPS TODAY…
1 2
3
4
5
6 7 8 9
10
Abundance Of Helpful Data
1. Area Map
2. Our Direction
3. Our Route
4. Points Of Interest
5. Our Route Risks
6. Upcoming Action
7. Distance/Time To Goal
8. Estimated Duration
9. Current Speed/Limit
10. Current Road

16. The first route forward enables your organization to communicate on Office 365
ROUTE 1: ENABLE
COMMUNICATION

17. Integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory to allow you to
provide a single identity for your users for Office 365, Azure, and SaaS applications
integrated with Azure AD
SINGLE IDENTITY

18. Enable users to use their Office 365 account to access all applications
EXTEND SINGLE-SIGN ON FOR
SAAS AND/OR ON-PREM
APPLICATIONS

19. Give users access to profile directory information
ENABLE DISCOVERY
OF SME

20. Empower user with access to their profile data, recent documents and more!
RICH USER
PROFILES

21. Delve is an experience that presents Office Graph data to the user.
ENCOURAGE
DISCOVERY

22. For simple migrations, leverage the Exchange Deployment Assistant
MIGRATE EMAIL TO
OFFICE 365

23. Everything from unlimited storage (50GB user mailbox, unlimited storage for in-place
archive) to DLP to access to Office (desktops, mobile devices and web) and more
LEVERAGE CLOUD-
POWERED FEATURES

24. Enable presence privacy mode, mobile notifications, IM, online meetings, external
communications, video conferencing, tele-conferencing and Skype Meeting Broadcast
ENABLE INSTANT
COMMUNICATION

25. One of the biggest reasons why organizations are not connected
ENABLE SKYPE FOR
BUSINESS

26. One membership to rule them all?
OFFICE 365 GROUPS
BEHIND THE SCENES…

27. Enable your teams to communicate however they want
ENABLE GROUP
COMMUNICATION

28. Scenarios
Finding Someone With A Certain Expertise ◔ ● ● ◕ ◔ ◔
Ask Something, Don’t Know Whom To Ask ○ ● ◕ ◔ ◕
Do A Brainstorming Activity With My Team ◑ ● ● ◑ ◔ ●
Where Should Meeting Notes Be Captured,
Stored & Shared?
◕ ◕ ● ● ◔ ●
Where Should I Share Video? ○ ◑ ◔ ◔ ◔ ○ ◔ ●
Where Should I Share Photos? ○ ● ◕ ◑ ○ ◔
Have A Real Time Chat With A Colleague ● ◑ ○ ◑
Where Should I Put & Share Documents? ◔ ◕ ● ● ◔ ●
Have A Question Related To A Document? ◔ ● ◑ ◑ ◑ ◔ ◑
Invite A Colleague To Lunch ◕ ◔ ●
Provide A Note Of Congratulations/Praise ◔ ● ◔ ◑ ◕
Make An Organizational Announcement ◔ ● ◔ ◕ ◕
Remind The Team Of An Important Deadline ◑ ◔ ● ● ●We have provided guidance on 10+ scenarios…whentousewhat.com
SCENARIO
GUIDANCE

29. It goes into much greater depth and can be found at WhenToUseWhat.com
DOWNLOAD THE WHEN TO USE
WHAT IN OFFICE 365 ENTERPRISE
USER GUIDANCE WHITEPAPER!

30. The second route forward enables your organization to collaborate on Office 365
ROUTE 2: ENABLE
COLLABORATION

31. Migrate your personal file shares, network drives and local content to OneDrive for
Business, SharePoint Online, Office 365 Groups
MIGRATE CONTENT
C:/ Drive
(Local Drive)
ftp
(…)
P:/ Drive
(Personal Shared
Drive)
T:/ Drive
(Team Shared Drive)
Legacy / Traditional
DM System
File Sharing Tool
(DropBox, Box,
Google Drive,
YouSendIt)

32. Migrate your personal file shares, network drives and local content to
OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Office 365 Groups
MIGRATE CONTENT
Team Sites/Groups
(w/ Ext Share)
Email
(Exchange Online)
Project Sites/Groups
SharePoint Intranet
(“OurSpace”)
Skype For Business
(w/ Broadcast)
C:/ Drive
(Local Drive)
ftp
(…)
P:/ Drive
(Personal Shared
Drive)
T:/ Drive
(Team Shared Drive)
Legacy / Traditional
DM System
File Sharing Tool
(DropBox, Box,
Google Drive,
YouSendIt)

33. Consider PowerPoint recording with Office MIX https://mix.office.com/
SHARE MEETING
RECORDINGS ON
YOUR OFFICE
VIDEO PORTAL…

34. With messaging, calendaring, file sharing, and more.
CONNECT EXPERIENCES
WITH OFFICE 365
GROUPS…

35. Based on what the user does put the best technology together to improve
that.
CONNECT EXPERIENCES
ACROSS OFFICE 365 WITH
DELVE…

36. It all starts with easy to author articles
ARTICLES
Auto-saved as you work
Friendly URLs
Looks great across your devices
(phone, tablet and PC)
Connected to social (Yammer)
Fast and fluid navigation
Compliant and secure
Natively embed Office 365
documents and video
Will be used to create pages in
Blog, Office 365 Groups,
Codename “InfoPedia” and
more

37. Going beyond Delve Boards and providing great content experiences.
MICROSITES
Basic site hierarchy allows
sections and organization
Includes both explicit, curated content
and dynamic related content
Absolutely the best way in
the world to talk about a
set of Office documents
Badging denotes
authoritative content
Modern, on rails authoring
canvas

38. No longer combing through excel work sheets to get an update on status.
HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS
TOGETHER HAS CHANGED…

39. Give you guidance and recommendations to successfully plan and
implement an Office 365 Intranet http://office365intranets.com
DOWNLOAD INTRANETS WITH
OFFICE 365 WHITEPAPER!

40. The third route forward enables your organization to take advantage of Office 365
without moving all your data and/or enabling applications to be Office 365-aware
ROUTE 3: ENABLE
CLOUD

41. Taking advantage of the cloud without all the stress of data sovereignty
SEARCH HYBRID
SCENARIOS

42. Integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory to
allow you to provide a single identity for your users for Office 365, Azure,
and SaaS applications integrated with Azure AD
SYNC YOUR DIRECTORY TO
AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY

43. Enable users to use their Office 365 account to access all applications
EXTEND SINGLE-SIGN ON FOR
SAAS AND/OR ON-PREM
APPLICATIONS

44. Hybrid deployment automation (scenario selection, config of pre-req &
core)
HYBRID AUTOMATION

45. No content is migrated to Office 365
DO NOT MIGRATE
CONTENT
Team Sites/Groups
(w/ Ext Share)
Email
(Exchange Online)
Project Sites/Groups
SharePoint Intranet
(“OurSpace”)
Skype For Business
(w/ Broadcast)
C:/ Drive
(Local Drive)
ftp
(…)
P:/ Drive
(Personal Shared
Drive)
T:/ Drive
(Team Shared Drive)
Legacy / Traditional
DM System
File Sharing Tool
(DropBox, Box,
Google Drive,
YouSendIt)

46. Users can view profile data but might not have access to their profile data,
recent documents and more! 
USER PROFILES
MIGHT NOT BE
FULLY FEATURED

47. One of the biggest reasons why organizations are not connected
PEOPLE CARDS
WON’T BE AS RICH

48. One of the biggest reasons why organizations are not connected
ENABLE SKYPE FOR
BUSINESS

49. Enable your teams to communicate however they want
ENABLE GROUP
COMMUNICATION

50. Give you guidance & recommendations to successfully plan & implement
External Sharing in your own organization http://office365extranets.com
DOWNLOAD EXTERNAL
SHARING WITH OFFICE
365 WHITEPAPER!

51. Sharing tips to ensure that your adoption of Office 365 is successful
ENSURING SUCCESS

52. Ensure you review your licensing options and purchase those plans and
add-ons that make sense.
LICENSING COSTS

53. Ensure that your network, infrastructure and devices are supported by
Office 365
MEET OFFICE 365 SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS

54. Enable users to use their Office 365 account to access all applications
LEVERAGE AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY

55. Microsoft can assist you with migrating your users, email and content to
Office 365
LEVERAGE FAST
TRACK

56. Give users ability to view insights so they can make business decisions.
Provide Data Scientists ability to create their own dashboards using available
data streams
ENABLE ACCESS
TO ANALYTICS

57. Most of us do not want instructions on how to collaborate but that initial introduction to
a solution with useful tips helps with adoption.
RAISE AWARENESS

58. Whether you are working from home, in a small office or an enterprise space, ensure you
have a working environment that encourages collaboration amongst teams
CREATE
COLLABORATIVE
WORKSPACES

59. Become a bit agile and create experiences using what’s available #hackathon
BUILD A PROOF
OF CONCEPT

60. Depending on your circle of trust and your goal, your new space will have different
collaboration & communication features
ENGAGE WITH YOUR USERS

61. Begin with the right challenge and work towards simple-fast solutions
DESIGN
SPRINT
PROCESS
Set the Stage
The right
challenge and
the right team
Monday
Understand the
problem
Tuesday
Explore ideas
to solve the
problem
Wednesday
Choose the
best ideas and
develop them
Thursday
Make a
prototype
Friday
Test with
customers

62. Give you guidance and recommendations to successfully plan and improve
Office 365 adoption http://Office365Campaigns.com
DOWNLOAD DRIVING
OFFICE 365 ADOPTION
WHITEPAPER

63. Personalize or base the matrixes you leverage on personas that change over time.
Office Video
Urgency/TimeSensitivity
Audience (Internal or External)
Skype For
Business
Call
IM
Skype
Presence
Skype for
Business
Online
Meetings
Outlook
E-Mail
OneDrive
for
Business
SharePoint
Team Sites
SharePoint
Intranet
Yammer Company
Communications
Yammer Groups
Office
365
Groups
Individual OrganizationalGroup
Ad-hoc/LowUrgent/High
Delve
Boards
FutureToday
MAP YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S JOURNEY

64. Planning out your strategy for Office 365 and how you will
leverage specific features and functionalities
DIGITAL
WORKPLACE
STRATEGY

65. There are three common approaches to transitioning to Office 365
PRACTICAL TRANSITION
STRATEGIES
ENABLE
COMMUNICATION
ENABLE
COLLABORATION
ENABLE CLOUD

66. Give you guidance and recommendations to successfully measure & share
the business impact and value of Office 365 http://Office365Metrics.com
DOWNLOAD TO MEASURE
BUSINESS IMPACT & ROI OF
OFFICE 365 WHITEPAPER

67. My twitter handle is @kkhipple, my email is kanwal@2toLead.com & I work @
Thank You!
Organizers, Sponsors and You for making this possible.
50+ SharePoint Presentations @ Slideshare.Net/kkhipple
When to Use What Whitepaper @ WhentoUseWhat.com
Whitepaper Intranets w/ Office 365 @ Office365Intranets.com
Whitepaper External Sharing w/ Office 365 @ Office365Extranets.com
Message Me On LinkedIn or Email Kanwal@Khipple.com
SPEAKER | AUTHOR | AWARD WINNING DESIGNER