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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Office 365 talk

The part that is still a bit unknown is SharePoint.

Specifically, we would need to have a SharePoint server in-house, running a hybrid environment.
What is drives this decision?

Hybrid deployments are complex and costly requiring multiple servers


Points of concern:

We want to be able to work locally and remotely; however, the remote option is secondary to quickly accessing files from a server internally. 

– Using SharePoint Online allows for work on any device, anywhere, anytime – you need a USERNAME / PASSWORD or optionally configure multi-factor authentication.

We are not willing to put everything in the Microsoft cloud as it just doesn't work for us operationally speaking.

Can you describe your typical operational day for the different types of workers?

We have tried to implement systems in the past where we asked people to download files in a check-in/check-out process people have to download things continuously to work with them offline

One Drive for Business allows for editing within the browser; no download; no check out; however, depends a bit on those operational process and the type of worker

We also need to be able to have both Microsoft files as well as Adobe Creative Suite files in the same client directories. 

Document libraries are what they are called; they can store many different file types; there are some files which are excluded (such as viruses signatures) and any type of executable file.

Surrounding the SharePoint hybrid I wanted to give you a bit more information so you can plan accordingly and get me the most accurate pricing. We can assume we would have less than 250 users accessing SharePoint Server 2013. So I believe we need 1 SharePoint Server 2013 license and 250 CALs. 

A lot! A typical on premise installation without Hybrid in the equation is 3 servers; 4 if you plan to use Web Applications; 3 SharePoint Server Licenses and 1 SQL Server License. If we start to introduce any type of Business Intelligence generally this installed on its own server. When we talk about Hybrid; then some additionally PROXY servers are necessary to allow on premise to talk to online.
Topical Traditional Typologies from Technet - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=257304 


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