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A few details

Project Description

Office 365 enterprise global deployment. The project required merging two company’s infrastructures as a result of an acquisition. The messaging technologies included Lotus Notes and legacy Exchange versions. Two Active Directory forests and federated single sign-on to office 365.

How I solved it

My approach

I take a three step approach:

  1. Design – Design for co-existence & integrate office 365 services
  2. Deploy – Core on-boarding, deploy in days, company wide cloud use
  3. Extend – Meet business needs, customized & extend operations abilities

Customers are all unique

Decision Factors

  • Company size
  • Coexistence requirements
  • Time-to-Value
  • Identity Management

Step-by-Step Approach

Deployment Steps

  1. Directory & Single Sign-on
  2. Directory synchronization
  3. Configure security and web-services
  4. Hybrid connectivity
  5. Configuration and Administration
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Solution Planning

Project Kick-off & Charter
Requirements Definition
Solution Envisioning
Current State Assessment and remediation strategy
Development of Migration Plan
Project Plan

Solution Development

Solution Build
Migration and co-existence validation
Automation and script development
Training Finalization
Communication Plan Execution
Conduct knowledge transfer

Solution Deployment

Alpha Pilot (IT)
Beta Pilot (Administration)
Go Live Pilot (Health Care Roles)
Execution of Communication and Training Plan
Migration Velocity
Trend and support analysis
Project closeout and Lessons Learned Meeting

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People involved

440

Working hours

120.000

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