How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.
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If a customer is asking to go "Cloud based" and they want to stay MS based. What would be you path for a customer who has standard server now.
My concerns are file access and file sharing. Very large graphics and video files, and lot of people all touching the same word and excel docs.
Any thoughts on what to think about and how to accomplish the goal?
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anything not local will likely see complaints about access speeds to the very large files.
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You can readily migrate exchange to office 365, large files on the otherhand are always an issue as they would need to be downloaded to the workstation for each edit.
You could use OneDrive as a means to sync files locally and to the cloud, but that generally means keeping files on workstations.
So far I've seen a heavy mix of cloud for non-file share services and on-premise for file sharing that gets backed up to cloud.
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We have a lot of clients that are moving everything to their Office 365 environment. The thing is, none of them have to deal with large files.
We normally use Sharepoint to replace file shares, and OneDrive for personal folders (Documents/Pictures/etc). Once everything is synced, sharing files is so much simpler that end users are able to do it themselves (right-click -> share with -> choose email address).
If everyone is based out of areas that have something like Google Fiber, then it wouldn't be an issue. That's almost never the case that everyone is going to have a 1gB symmetrical connection.
It can also depend on the types of files when dealing with Office 365. Are the large files just big excel spreadsheets? They you never have to actually download/upload the file, just use the online editor.
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@JasGot said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
Any thoughts on what to think about and how to accomplish the goal?
Well, going "cloud based" is not a goal, that's a means to an end.
It would beinterestingto know the goal. Not only interesting but crucial. -
@Pete-S said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
@JasGot said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
Any thoughts on what to think about and how to accomplish the goal?
Well, going "cloud based" is not a goal, that's a means to an end.
It would beinterestingto know the goal. Not only interesting but crucial.-
Their goal is to do away with any local (onsite) IT costs, including support. Not something I am in favor of, since we are an IT support company
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because everyone says "cloud" is the way to go.
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@JasGot said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
@Pete-S said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
@JasGot said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
Any thoughts on what to think about and how to accomplish the goal?
Well, going "cloud based" is not a goal, that's a means to an end.
It would beinterestingto know the goal. Not only interesting but crucial.-
Their goal is to do away with any local (onsite) IT costs, including support. Not something I am in favor of, since we are an IT support company
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because everyone says "cloud" is the way to go.
Well, they still going to have offsite costs and support needs. Who is going to setup O365 for them? Who will add users? Who will setup authentication for them so they can use their O365 login credentials in app xyz? Who will help them when they can't get it to work?
And of course they still going to have windows clients.
I wouldn't be surprised if their support need increases.
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@JasGot said in How to start taking a company to Microsoft 365 based operations.:
If a customer is asking to go "Cloud based" and they want to stay MS based. What would be you path for a customer who has standard server now.
The real trick is getting them to talk about their goals. Going "cloud" or "Microsoft" aren't business goals, those are means, not ends. So we have no idea what they are trying to do, only how they think they will do it.
It's like stating your goal as "using a hammer" without stating why or to accomplish what. A hammer is reasonable, maybe. But just knowing it's a hammer, you can't go any further without just making up what they might want to accomplish.
