Office 365: The Art of the Possible (201603)
- 1. blog.eardley.org.uk Office 365 The Art of the Possible Alan Eardley - @al_eardley SQL Saturday 12 March 2016
- 2. blog.eardley.org.uk Who Am I? • Head of Solution Design 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: [email protected] • Blog: http://blog.eardley.org.uk
- 3. blog.eardley.org.uk and our Premier Sponsor SQL Saturday Exeter In association with
- 4. blog.eardley.org.uk Please thank our other sponsors
- 5. blog.eardley.org.uk 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?
- 7. blog.eardley.org.uk 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?
- 8. blog.eardley.org.uk What is Office 365? • Software as a Service • Hosted by Microsoft • A subscription to the services • Cloud and device applications
- 10. blog.eardley.org.uk Communication Yammer Groups Discussions Newsfeed Skype for Business Text Voice Video Mail Sway Blogs
- 12. blog.eardley.org.uk Collaboration Sites (formerly known as SharePoint) Delve User Profile Related content People User Profile OneDrive Share Groups Documents Calendar OneNote
- 13. blog.eardley.org.uk Productivity Planner • Cards • Buckets • Progress Tasks • Outlook • Flagged e- mails Calendar • Appointments • Meetings
- 18. blog.eardley.org.uk Security • Multi-factor authentication – Phone – Text – App • Sharing – External users with Microsoft accounts – Federated domains
- 19. blog.eardley.org.uk Mobile device management • Enhanced security – Password policies – Prevent actions such as synchronisation – Block removable storage – Block Bluetooth • App management • Remote partial wiping
- 20. blog.eardley.org.uk Reporting • Built in reports • Access to additional reporting via PowerShell
- 21. blog.eardley.org.uk 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 Enterprise E3 • Office 365 Enterprise E5 • (Academic, Government & Charity)
- 22. blog.eardley.org.uk Additional products • Yammer Enterprise • Social Engagement • Dynamics Marketing • Parature • Azure AD Premium • Azure Rights Management • Visio • InTune
- 23. blog.eardley.org.uk What can I make it do?
- 24. blog.eardley.org.uk A lot, but not everything • Branding • Process automation – Forms – Workflow • Integrate with other systems
- 25. blog.eardley.org.uk But Azure can do anything • Infrastructure as a Service • Platform as a Service – SQL databases – SQL data warehousing – Queues – Web sites – Worker roles – Storage
- 26. blog.eardley.org.uk What are the benefits?
- 27. blog.eardley.org.uk Cloud • Hosted by Microsoft • High availability - built in • Disaster recovery – built in • Scalability – built in
- 28. blog.eardley.org.uk Feature parity (kind of) • Familiar products • Familiar features • New features sooner • No new versions or upgrades
- 29. blog.eardley.org.uk Where is it going?
- 30. blog.eardley.org.uk 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
- 31. blog.eardley.org.uk Thank-you Alan Eardley – [email protected] blog.eardley.org.uk @al_eardley Office 365 | SharePoint | Project Server | CRM | Recruitment
Editor's Notes
- #15: CRM 2016 - New integrations: + Azure ML for suggestions + Outlook integration + OneDrive/SharePoint + Delve surfacing information + Cortana + Windows App