Find out how to successfully complete your Office 365 migration, and manage your Office 365 environment. Learn from Quest customers about their experiences in this discussion.

1. Quest to the Cloud
November 1, 2017
Identifying the barriers to accelerate O365 adoption

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SPEAKER: Curtis Johnstone
Curtis Johnstone is a Senior Product Architect with Quest Software and a Microsoft MVP.
He has more than 15 years of Microsoft enterprise deployment and application development
with Microsoft Office 365, Skype for Business, and Exchange. He leverages his domain
expertise to design, develop, and deliver world-class management applications for the
Microsoft servers and services, including new SaaS management solutions delivered on
Microsoft Azure.
Curtis is also the founder and lead contributor of the popular Microsoft Skype for Business
blog www.InsideSkype.com.
Curtis.Johnstone@quest.com
HOST: Nathan O’Bryan
Nathan O’Bryan is a Microsoft MVP (Office Servers and Services).
Nathan spent the last 20+ years working in IT, starting as a Banyan Vines
administrator for the US Marine Corps. Since then, Nathan has worked for companies
like GE Capital, Kaiser Permanente. In 2013 Nathan attended what turned out to be
the final rotation of the Exchange Master course in Redmond Washington where he
became a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master: Messaging.
These days Nathan works as a consultant focusing on Exchange, Active Directory,
Lync, and Azure projects.
Speakers

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SPEAKER: Shawny Reiner
Shawny Reiner is a Strategic Systems Consultant at Quest. Throughout her
20-year IT career, she has gained experience working with many
technologies and industry verticals.
Her passion, focus, and primary area of expertise is Microsoft infrastructure
platforms such as Active Directory. As a former customer herself, Shawny
enjoys sharing her experiences with Quest solutions and showing how they
add value and can positively impact customers’ environments.
shawny.reiner@quest.com
Speakers
SPEAKER: Matthew Vinton
Matthew Vinton spent thirteen years consulting in the Microsoft Platform
technology space before joining Quest in 2013.
While he specialized in Active Directory engineering and migration, he has
also worked extensively with Microsoft messaging, unified communications,
and end point management platforms.
matthew.vinton@quest.com

4. Who’s moving to
the cloud?

5. What are the drivers to cloud?
Source: Spiceworks State of IT 2018 report

6. Preparation is
protection when
bad things happen.

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Risks
• You can’t fix what you don’t see
• Loss of productivity and possible security issues
• Loss of legitimate changes if you do a full restore or synch from on prem
1. Insider or external attack
Hank has been causing problems for the
last week, and it’s not clear what he has
changed or when.
Several legitimate changes have also
occurred in the environment.

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Risks
• With Azure AD, once a group is deleted, you will not be able to do a simple
restore. You must use PowerShell (PoSH).
• Even with PoSH, you cannot restore the group’s membership – only its ID
• You have about 30 days before the Recycle Bin times out
• You will permanently lose hard deleted objects
2. Accidental or malicious deletions
Carl didn’t know that some Azure AD
(AAD) groups can’t be recovered from
the recycle bin and that group
memberships are never recoverable.

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Risks
• Enabling communication for contractors could impose security risks for highly
regulated industries.
• Could impact compliance
3. Restricted data sharing
Ed Snow is an employee at an aerospace
company who frequently works with external
contractors.
He must go through a defined security protocol
prior to sharing electronic documents.
Ed is disgruntled.

10. Collaboration is
easier,
but mobile spread
can easily lead to
compliance
concerns.

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Mitigating Sensitive Data Leaks via mobile devices
• Mobile phones can contain transcripts of
Skype for Business IM and conferencing
sessions.
• Increased mobile usage is increasing the
amount of sensitive data on mobile devices.
4. Data Loss Prevention
Risks
• Many organizations allow unmanaged mobile devices.
• If a mobile device (phone or tablet) is lost or stolen, sensitive communication data is at risk.

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5. Controlling sensitive data with mobile workers
Securing sensitive data
Lynn is an O365 admin for an engineering
company. To protect patents and sensitive data,
she needs a way to ensure that her growing
mobile work force can use mobile devices while
preventing data loss.
Risks
• Some mobile devices used by employees can’t be encrypted
• If a mobile device (phone or tablet) is lost or stolen, sensitive communication data is at risk.

13. It’s not all gloom
and doom.
To move forward
quickly and safely,
prepare, prepare,
prepare!

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• Product Page https://www.quest.com/on-demand/
• Free 30 day trials on the page (instant access)
• Whitepapers on Azure AD best practices (3-part series):
• Building Effective Azure AD Practices (part 1) – Continually Assess
• Building Effective Azure AD Practices (part 2) – Detect and Alert
• On Demand community (check out our 3 min vids!)
Where to learn more

15. Thank You!
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