Many wondered if it would be a passing fad, but it is clear now that the cloud is here to stay. Advances in technology and lower-cost hardware, coupled with exciting virtual machine technologies, resulted in this new business concept of delivering computing to the masses, thereby maximizing economies of scale like never before.
The cloud has leveled the playing field between large and small organizations by making access to enterprise-class computing resourcestechnologies that otherwise are accessible only to organizations with big IT budgetsavailable to small companies. Competition to provide cloud services has further benefitted customers by driving down the cost of cloud computing.
However, the most important aspect of cloud computing is that it makes IT more sustainable than ever before. The cloud and the competition have also made technology companies more aggressive in providing better and more robust solutions. To a great extent, most of us in the IT world are speeding down a path toward everything as a service.
Consumer vs. A consumer simply might want a convenient way to share files, while an enterprise might need to ensure security and audit trails in addition to the ability to share files. There are free services that offer features that are paid by advertisers, and then there are the very same features that might have to be purchased because they are not subsidized by advertising. After all, an enterprise might have a strong negative reaction if employees get distracted with non-work related advertising or, worse yet, advertising that might be deemed inappropriate to the mission of the organization.
With that in mind, one might come to appreciate the dual-pronged strategy that Microsoft has adopted. For example, some people wondered why Microsoft acquired Skype when there is already a Lync offering with similar capabilities, or why Microsoft provides SkyDrive in addition to SharePoint SkyDrive Pro. The reason is because enterprises typically have different needs from consumers.
The fact is that enterprises require better controls from their IT services as well as other features that might not be relevant to the average consumer.
Office This brings us to the introduction of Office Now in its third release, Office is the overarching brand name of Microsofts flagship business products offered through the cloud: Office ProPlus A full version of Office Exchange Online For hosted messaging SharePoint Online For hosted file sharing and collaboration Lync Online For hosted communications These business and productivity tools are rich in features by themselves, but when combined they become an integrated platform of capabilities that very few other solutions can match.
If implemented on-premises and as these features continue to grow, evolve, and integrate with each other, the demand for the IT backend infrastructure to deliver and maintain the service becomes more and more complex. Organizations are constantly in need of evaluating IT costs and their return on investment ROI , and the most important realization by organizations is that there needs to be a more sustainable way of delivering IT.
Cloud computing has also become a reality because the infrastructure in most parts of the world have improved to the point where the Internet has the capacity and reliability to deliver business critical IT systems. If your organization requires these capabilities, they can be acquired separately and as add-ons to Office While this book will focus only on the core Office technologies, it is important to note that the Microsoft technology roadmap includes the continued integration of other Microsoft technologies with Office As with many Microsoft licensing options, Office provides multiple paths for adoption.
Just like the on-premises versions of the software, there is a standard edition as well as an enterprise edition for Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. In the online world, these are known as Plan 1 and Plan 2. Online Plan 1 is equivalent to an on-premises standard edition, while Online Plan 2 is equivalent to an on-premises enterprise edition.
You can purchase any core technology and its associated plan as a stand-alone component. For example, if your organization is interested only in adopting a cloud-based email solution, you can acquire either Exchange Plan 1 or Exchange Plan 2, depending on the desired features. You do not need to acquire any of the other core technologies, such as Lync Online or SharePoint Online. We cover the different capabilities included in Plan 1 and Plan 2 for each of the core technologies in Office in their respective chapters in this book.
Office suites Some organizations might be interested in multiple technologies. For these organizations, Microsoft provides bundled options known as Office suites. Figure Office K and E suites. When the E suites were created, there were four E suites. The E3 suite provides Office Professional Plus. Recently, Microsoft modified the plans by combining E1 and E2 into a single suite. The revamped E1 suite now has Office Web Apps.
That is why there is no longer an E2 suite. Office suites combine some or all of the Office core technologies and plans. Because this book focuses on the enterprise, we will use the Enterprise E and Government G suites as an example of how the suites combine the core technologies.
The E and G suites are intended to be similar offerings except that the latter is designed for government organizations and provisioned through the Government Community Cloud GCC , which we will introduce in the Government Community Cloud section later in this chapter. Financially, it is more advantageous to acquire a suite than acquire the core technologies individually.
Aside from the financial incentive, Office core technologies are also implemented in such a way that they are already integrated with each other. Office terminology There are several new terms that are used in Office You will frequently hear these terms when Office is discussed, so it is important to understand what they mean. These terms are also used extensively throughout this book. Tenant An Office subscription is often referred to as a tenant. The tenant refers to the licensing model, but might also refer to the deployed platform.
For example, when you purchase an Office E3 subscription, you will have an E3 tenant, which refers to your licensing model. It also might be referred to as an E-tenant, meaning that your Office tenant is an enterprise subscription, which differentiates it from a government subscription, also known as a G-tenant. Tenant name The tenant name, sometimes referred to as the Office domain name, is the onmicrosoft. When you sign up for an Office subscription and create a tenant, you will be asked to select an organization name.
This name, if available, will be pre-appended to the onmicrosoft. For example, if you pick Adatum as the name, and if it is available, your tenant name will be adatum.
Your tenant name does not preclude you from adding your true domain name to your tenant. Vanity domain name Your true domain name is referred to as the vanity domain name. Continuing with the preceding example, if you have a tenant called adatum.
However, often this is not desirable. Therefore, you need to add adatum. Waves There are no version numbers associated with Office , although you might hear some people use the term wave, as in Wave 14 and Wave The wave term is Microsofts internal reference to releases of Office Wave 15 refers to Office with versions. In this book, we will use the official naming convention of Office , which is to refer to Office with the version number of the software component.
For example, if we are referring to Exchange Online , we will refer to it as Office with Exchange Online or simply as Exchange Online Hybrid Hybrid is frequently used in the context of the different Office services.
The term refers to the implementation of on-premises Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync coexisting and working with the respective online deployments. For example, Exchange in a hybrid environment is the integration of on- premises Exchange with Exchange Online; in this scenario, an enterprise could have some mailboxes hosted on-premises and others hosted online.
We will discuss hybrid scenarios that are specific to individual services in later chapters. Hybrid can also refer to on-premises technology coexisting with a different Office service.
The ability to integrate Lync Online with on-premises Exchange is another example of a hybrid configuration involving different technologies. Examples and screen shots The examples, instructions, and screen shots in this book are based on Office with the versions of the software as well as versions when they were in preview and final release. However, the majority of the focus is on Office with software. Due to the rapid evolution of Office , your screen might not match some of the screen shots in this book.
We plan to regularly update this book to address significant changes in Office A subscription to the GCC is sometimes referred to as a G-tenant. All US federal, state, and local government entities are eligible to sign up for the GCC instead of a traditional enterprise Office subscription, which is sometimes referred to as an E-tenant because of the E1, E3, and E4 plan names associated with the commercial offerings for enterprises.
The GCC was introduced to address very specific government regulatory requirements, such as the need for special auditing or for additional background checks and security clearances of Office personnel. These requirements are unique to government entities and are not required for enterprise customers. It does not mean that the GCC is more secure than the commercial Office subscriptions. While the GCC is reserved for government entities, it is not a requirement for a government organization to register for a G-tenant.
Government organizations can choose to use an E-tenant if they do not require the special requirements found in the GCC. It is important to stress that certain regulatory requirements are achievable only in the GCC. There is a specific process to accomplish this, but it can be done only within the GCC.
Business case for Office Technologists and technology leaders likely are already familiar with Office as a technology platform. However, some might believe that Office only provides cost-savings opportunities.
Cost savings, tangible and intangible, form the basis for a business case to consider Office over traditional technology adoption. However, there are other aspects of Office that make it a compelling solution to consider adopting. The following sections highlight some of the more significant features of an Office business case.
Subscription model The subscription model for licensing software is an industry trend and not just applicable to Office However, what Office does is to make it more cost effective to access new technologies. It also makes it flexible for organizations to license software only at a level that matches their organizations consumption.
This is sometimes known as a pay-what-you-use model. Office provides the ability for organizations to add and remove licenses, and enterprises are billed on an annual basis. Office ProPlus is licensed per user instead of per device, and provides each user with the ability to install and activate up to five copies of Office ProPlus.
The basis of Office subscriptions originates from the SaaS model. While it is a big departure from the mindset of owning software, the benefits include a substantial cost savings over time as well as a solution for software obsolescence.
Economies of scale The subscription model of Office is often touted as a more efficient software acquisition model because it is based on utilization rather than ownership. It also makes current and updated software readily available to customers.
The third benefit of Office from a financial standpoint is the ability to create high-density data centers. Office has been adopted by large corporate organizations as well as many government entities throughout the world. As such, it has reached a level whereby the economy of scale allows Microsoft to lower the cost of operations and pass the savings to customers.
To lower the cost of operations, Microsoft has invested significantly in efficient data center designs and renewable energy sources. These investments benefit customers as well as the environment.
Scalability The sizeable investment in data center operations that support Office is on a scale that is beyond the economic feasibility of many organizations, particularly if the organizations core business is not IT. Adopting Office provides access to world-class data centers; the most current software can be scaled rapidly in response to business needs. There is no need to excessively build on-premises capacity. An organization that acquires more capacity than needed will incur a higher cost of operations as well as unnecessary acquisition expenses.
On the other hand, if you do not build enough capacity in your data centers, you run the risk of having an undersized infrastructure that could impact the business. Finding the right level of data center capacity is challenging, and most IT organizations will err on the side of caution by choosing to have more capacity than needed.
Office eliminates this problem for IT organizations. Redundancy Office data centers are geo-redundant and are configured as active-active pairs. Therefore, Office customers inherit true redundancy because the infrastructure is not only duplicated, it is also distributed in geographically disparate locations to minimize the risk of outages due to natural disasters. Investing in geo-redundancy disaster recovery options is a significant financial challenge for many organizations and a near impossibility for many small organizations prior to Office Core competency Microsoft is the largest software company and is the developer of all the software offered in Office As the manufacturer of all the software from the operating system to the applications, offering the latest Microsoft technologies through Office is definitely a core competency.
As such, Office customers benefit from the best trained data center operations personnel and can expect higher levels of availability and the shortest resolution time for problems compared to full reliance on in-house supported data center operations. Cloud technology in my view is only going to continue to mature and be of greater benefit to government and all industries as we are able to take advantage of the economies of scale, scalability, and redundancy that cloud platforms like Office provide that we cannot duplicate within our own data centers.
The benefits that the cloud platforms provide outweigh the current constraints. However, there are lessons to be learned from early adopters on how best to make the transition from an on-premise environment to a cloud Office environment that should be understood before making the leap. This book will assist you in understanding how best to make the transition to O so that you have a smooth transition and understand the investment of resources and budget.
Trust Center Microsoft is very serious about security and privacy. Therefore, Microsoft created the Office Trust Center to ensure transparent and efficient communication about the security and privacy of Microsoft cloud services. It is important to ensure that the Trust Center topics apply to your subscription. The Office Trust Center is the one-stop location for all updated privacy and security issues related to Office The Trust Center has five pillars: Privacy Transparency Security Compliance Service Continuity The information includes easy-to-understand topics and videos, so you do not need to be a subject matter expert to grasp the principles.
Certifications Microsoft uses certifications and third-party verifications of various standards and regulatory requirements to differentiate Office as an enterprise cloud service. This is one area where Microsoft leads other large, public cloud providers. In most cases, it is already a fact that the level of investment, geographic footprint, and specialization in this field far exceed the IT standards required by any current or potential Office customer.
Most organizations are not in the business of running data centers, which really exist only to support the real core business of the organization. This is available only for the Government Community Cloud and needs to be achieved at the state level for each state. Therefore, Microsoft works with each states CJIS representative to achieve the necessary requirements, such as adjudication and background checks of personnel, to jointly meet CJIS requirements with the state.
After that is accomplished, all law enforcement organizations in the state can use Office and still meet CJIS requirements. Microsoft Office is the only major cloud service that currently has this capability. The key difference between certifications and regulatory compliance is that the latter does not have a formal certification process. Instead, regulatory compliance standards rely on scheduled audits to ensure adherence. An organization that is required to adhere to such standards will find that the standards tend to cover all aspects of their operations, including organization policies, processes, security, and technology portfolio.
Because Office adheres to these standards, an organization can adopt Office services and be assured that the security, technology, and services in Office meet those requirements.
It is important to note that it does not mean the organization becomes compliant with the standards just by adopting Office ; instead, it means that the organization can maintain or achieve the regulatory compliance with Office as part of their portfolio.
It is necessary to make this distinction because portions of the standards might cover requirements that are not part of Office For example, a particular requirement might dictate that records are kept for only days, after which they must be destroyed.
This is an organization process. Office meets this requirement because it provides the tools and methods that can easily implement this requirement.
However, it might be up to the organization to actually create a policy and process and configure Office services to adhere to the requirement. The core principles and economic relevance of Office have made the cloud a significant and permanent part of any organizations IT portfolio. The following chapters will dive into the technical details and lessons learned by organizations that have adopted Office since its debut as the Business Productivity Online Services BPOS.
Chapter 2. In this chapter, we start with the planning for foundational technologies and requirements for Office as a whole and gather information to develop a sound project plan. Later, in the chapters where we discuss implementation of a specific service, we cover service-specific planning and preparation tasks.
The goal is to provide enterprise users with the best possible experience, which can be described as users not even realizing that the site they are accessing is in the cloud or that their mailbox is not on an email server located somewhere in the building. A successful Office deployment is defined as the seamless integration of Office with your enterprise, and that is what we want to accomplish.
Success is also defined as an outcome that leads to a reduction in meaningless workload for IT professionals. Approach to planning and evaluating Office Planning for Office might seem like a daunting task. It definitely is not a small or simple project. To make it more manageable, we grouped the planning and remediation tasks into two major categories: Foundational planning and remediation tasks Service-specific planning and remediation tasks.
Foundational planning and remediation tasks Foundational planning refers to the initial steps we need to take to ensure that Office services will work properly.
Remediation tasks refer to tasks we need to complete to avoid the degradation of the end- user experience or IT administrator experience with the services. A good example of a foundational issue you must address is whether you have enough network bandwidth to support an Office initiative. Another example is Identity Management because you need to know how users will be managed.
How does Office make use of information in AD? If your organization is not using AD, what are your user management options in Office ? Is AD healthy and ready for Office ? These are all questions that need to be answered during the planning and evaluation phase.
As you can see, this is independent of the type of service you want to use in Office Service-specific planning and remediation tasks Because Office is a suite of toolsExchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online, and Office Professional Plus Subscriptionthere are tasks we need to perform from a planning perspective that are specific and unique to each service.
Thus, as the name implies, service-specific planning and remediation tasks pertain to specific Office services. For example, if a user mailbox is migrated from the on-premises Exchange email server to Office Exchange Online, will the user still be able to see the free and busy times of others whose mailboxes might still reside in the on-premises Exchange email server?
If users have non-Windows mobile devices, will they be able to use the new Lync Online communication capabilities that come with the Office suite the company is planning to purchase? These questions are all service related, and while they might span across multiple services and are just as important, they are not considered part of the foundational technologies. Office planning, deployment, and troubleshooting tools Microsoft and third-party vendors make a number of tools available to enterprise customers.
Because of the complexity associated with enterprise customers, Microsoft conducts technical briefings and workshops that are designed to help customers better understand Office , its integration with existing technologies, and navigating licensing scenarios. Oftentimes, these pre-sales engagements do not cost you anything, and you will come out of them with a much better understanding of how to evaluate, plan for, and ultimately deploy Office successfully.
Office Service Descriptions Microsoft Office Service Descriptions are the most overlooked documents, which is unfortunate because these are very good documents that answer a lot of basic questions about each of the Office services: SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online, and Office Professional Plus Subscription.
They have a surprising amount of detailed information that your organization will be interested in knowing. For example, in the Service Descriptions you can find answers to the following questions: How is the financially backed How much storage space will you get with SharePoint Online?
Are there throttling limits in Exchange Online? If so, what are they? Do you get charged for shared and resource mailboxes? Can you federate Lync Online with other solutions? How do you manage Office Professional Plus Subscription licenses? What is the difference between Plan 1 and Plan 2? What is E-Suite versus Kiosk? These questions represent just a small sampling of the valuable information found in the Service Descriptions.
Another important point to make is that the Service Descriptions are considered the authoritative source of Office capabilities, and they are updated on a regular basis. As consultants and architects, we carry them with us on our Surface and other electronic devices. They are our top reference materials. Office Deployment Guide The Office Deployment Guide is a very useful resource that organizes all the project planning information and tools available.
It provides high-level guidance on tasks and the recommended order, phases, and best practices. One valuable use of the Office Deployment Guide is the guidance on the different types of deployment models. For example, if you are going to deploy a hybrid Exchange environment, there are prescriptive guidelines on how you should approach such a project.
If you have to migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange Online, there is targeted information pertaining to this type of project. Therefore, if you have a good idea about how your Office project might look, you should start by reviewing the Deployment Guide for specifics pertaining to your type of requirements. Or, if you are uncertain about the requirements for your project, you could scan the Deployment Guide to get an overall sense of how to begin formulating those requirements.
Figure shows an excerpt from the Office Deployment Guide that explains how to approach a migration project. Excerpt from the Office Deployment Guide that outlines the main phases of a migration project. Microsoft Office Deployment Readiness Toolkit As with most major projects, the first question is often, Where do we even begin?
To help answer this question, in this section we show you how to download and begin using the Microsoft Office Deployment Readiness Toolkit. The reason we like this toolkit is because it does a good job of gathering all the baseline information about your environment, and then it proceeds to tell you how ready your environment is for Office The information that the Deployment Readiness Toolkit gathers might include service-specific information.
After you have downloaded the toolkit, follow these steps: 1. Identify a computer on which you will install the toolkit. The computer must to be joined to the domain.
Copy the downloaded toolkit to the domain-joined computer, unzip the package, and run the executable. When the installation is complete, the toolkit will launch your browser and start analyzing your environment, as shown in Figure Depending on the size of AD and the number of objects, the tool might take some time to gather the required information.
Microsoft Office Deployment Readiness Tool analyzing your environment. After the tool has finished gathering all the information, the page in the browser will be updated accordingly, as shown in Figure Results from the Office Deployment Readiness Tool. Review the results from the tool. You will notice the following information has been gathered: Information about email domains Number and names of AD forests and domains discovered Number of users, contacts, groups, and mailboxes Estimated number of AD objects to be synchronized AD forest schema and functional level Any detected clean-up tasks that need to be remediated in AD Any issues that might impact specific services, such as SharePoint Online, Lync Online, and Exchange Online Information on network IP addresses, trace route results, DNS records, and ports Informational content is denoted by a blue icon that looks like a stylized i.
If there are notes, those will be denoted with an icon resembling a notepad. Areas that are ready and have no issues are denoted by a green check mark. Issues are denoted with a yellow triangle with an exclamation point inside. Figure shows a sample report. Information and issues discovered.
As shown in Figure , there are Quick Links at the top of the report that take you directly to specific sections of the report.
For example, if you are interested only in information related to tasks you need to undertake to prepare your AD for Office , click the Active Directory Clean Up link. If you are interested in issues that need to be remediated in order to incorporate Exchange Online, click the Exchange Online link.
Quick Links to detailed information specific to areas needing remediation. This link exports additional information to. An example of the type of information that is exported to. In fact, the report might refer you to a specific. In one report that we ran, we were told that a particular user name had a UPN that was too long, and we were referred to the employeeid. When we opened the file, all user identities were listed, and we were able to easily identify the user with the long UPN.
List of. The Office Readiness Toolkit will generate a lot of information. You likely will spend a significant of time remediating issues and re-running the tool several times until all the issues have been remediated.
Network planning and analysis The topic of network requirements is one of the most frequently asked questions whenever we talk to organizations about Office mainly because of the emphasized dependency on the Internet for services to be rendered.
IT departments often are very concerned about whether they need to have more bandwidth to deploy Office Before you sign a long-term contract for an increase in bandwidth, let us set some context for this topic: Quality is just as important as quantity. You might have enough bandwidth, but your network latency might be too high. You might not need as much bandwidth as you might imagine.
Quality vs. The quality of your Internet connection is really a composite of both bandwidth and latency, which is a combination of the size of the pipe plus the time it takes to move data through that pipe.
For example, your Internet service provider ISP might provide you with a 1. Factors that affect speed include physical factors such as the electrical properties of the different connecting mediums. For example, the length of a copper segment might affect latency more than the same length of fiber optic cable because fiber is less susceptible to signal degradation. Another factor that affects speed is the number of network devices that a packet needs to pass through when getting from the source to the destination.
This is known as the number of hops between end points. Hops are increased because of the number of intermediate devices such as gateways, firewalls, and routers. You can increase your bandwidth by purchasing more or by combining multiple pipes.
It is more difficult to reduce latency because you might not have control over the connection medium, but you might have control in reducing the number of intermediate devices or making those devices more efficient by upgrading the network cards in the devices. You also might be able to work with your ISP to reduce the number of hops or use a different ISP that might be closer to the Internet backbone or is part of the Internet backbone.
We will discuss the importance of the Internet backbone in the Misconception about distance section later in this chapter. To measure the quality of your network connection, you need to fully measure the throughput in terms of bits per second bps , Mbps, and gigabits per second Gbps.
We have seen many customers focus only on their Internet connection and overlook these point-to-point connections between branch offices. This adds overhead. Furthermore, if you employ network acceleration technologies, these might no longer work in Office because many network acceleration technologies need to have the ability to look inside the packets in order to apply compression algorithms.
Encrypted packets prevent the ability to look inside packets, thus rendering network acceleration technologies ineffective. These are examples of impacts to the corporate network that you need to pay attention to, especially if you have multiple branch or remote offices.
Misconception about distance One misconception about Office is the notion that the nearest data center is still so far away. While it is easy to think of distance as a factor that inversely affects quality and latency, it really is less of an issue at the Office level. This is because the Office data centers are built in strategic locations throughout the world and are placed on Tier 1 networks, also known as the Internet backbone.
Tier 1 networks are owned by large government and private organizations that have either scale or peering agreements in place with other Tier 1 network providers.
Peer Tier 1 networks have direct point-to-point connections, which is often the case with fiber across countries, oceans, and continents. The Internet backbone is the fastest connection on the Internet, hence its name. With Office data centers sitting along the Internet backbone, the moment that network traffic reaches any point on the backbone, that traffic will take the fastest route to the nearest Office data center. For security reasons, Microsoft does not disclose the locations of all its data centers, although some are commonly known, such as the largest one in Chicago.
Figure illustrates how the data centers are located along the Internet backbone. However, note that it is not an accurate representation of the locations or number of data centers throughout the world. This figure is meant to serve only as a visual representation of the point-to-point, multiple, redundant connections that constitute the Internet backbone and how the Office data centers are situated along these connections.
In other words, the Internet backbone is capable of self-repairing through re-routing and recovery. Thus, there is redundancy designed into the Internet backbone and, as a result, Office data centers benefit from the redundancy as well. Speed test Now that we have discussed the importance of network speed latency and all the factors that affect speed, we need a plan to test the speed of your network connection from your organization to the nearest Office data center.
The problem with some online speed test tools is that they might not accurately represent your true speed, especially if these tools are provided by your ISP. For example, if your ISP developed and provided an online speed test tool, it might invariably yield a higher performance than what you are truly experiencing because the tool might be measuring your network location to another location owned and operated by the same ISP.
This is akin to measuring an internal network, and of course we hope that any reputable ISP would at the very least have a snappy internal network! The pairing of an IP address to a geographical location is known as geolocation. Therefore, the first step for a more valid test is to determine the geolocation between you and a point on the Internet backbone that is closest to an Office data center. Next, you can use a tool that allows you to custom select a point closest to the geolocation of that data center and run the test.
Here are the steps: 1. First, you need to determine the Office data center that will respond to you. Open a command- prompt window and type ping outlook. However, simply take note of the IP address, which is Pinging outlook. Your IP address should be detected, but what you need to enter is the IP address of outlook. That address is the one you noted from Step 1, which is Type your address from Step 1 and click Query, as shown in Figure Geolocation information for outlook.
Take note of this location. In the example shown in Figure , the geolocation information for outlook. Notice that speedtest. Without any configuration, speedtest.
However, we would like to select a server whose geolocation is the closest to the Office data center that we were directed to. In this example, it is Redmond, WA. So instead of clicking Begin Test, click Settings, as shown in Figure Configure speedtest. At the lower right of the Settings page, as shown in Figure , click the Preferred Server drop- down box and select a location of a speedtest.
In our example, we selected Seattle, WA. Select the preferred server closest to the Office data center. After you have selected your preferred server, click Save at the bottom of the screen, then click the Take A Speed Test button at the top of the screen, as shown in Figure Save Settings.
You will return to a screen similar to the one you began with, except that you now have the option to click Begin Test with either the recommended server or your preferred server, as shown in Figure Click Begin Test with your preferred server.
Begin Test with Your Preferred Server. The results of your speed test will be available shortly and will be similar to Figure In summary, this exercise helped you determine the performance of Office with respect to network speed through the following actions: Determining the Office data center that likely will serve your organization by pinging outlook.
Using iplocation. Customizing the settings of speedtest. In this example, our speed test results reveal that we have The 10 ms ping result is the latency of the network. In the next section, where we calculate the network demands of Office services, we can determine whether you have adequate network performance to support a good experience for your users when you migrate them to Office If not, we might need to remediate our network performance by increasing bandwidth or reducing network latency.
For example, if many users log in at A. It might taper off significantly at lunch time and around quitting time at P.
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Numerous examples of cloud migration with technical migration details are included. Cloud technology is a tremendous opportunity for an organization to reduce IT costs, and to improve productivity with increased access, simpler administration and improved services. The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve?
Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical.
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