Outsourced E-mail and Calendaring is so highly commoditized and ubiquitous, it makes little to no sense to host on-prem in 2016. Even edu, med, and gov seem to be jumping onboard.
There are much more interesting technical challenges to hack on and delight users with. That said, being an Exchange user is an experience where going from on-prem Exchange to Google Apps is significantly bumpier to hearts and minds and workflows than jumping to O365. My $0.02. :) On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:25 PM Mark Honomichl <m...@marsdominion.com> wrote: > We made the transition from on-prem to O365 at my last job (Dun & > Bradstreet). I thought it went relatively smooth. We had som issues with > permissions and calendar sharing as we made the transition, but in the end > I think everyone was satisfied. Of course it could have just been our > mailboxes going from 200M to 50G..... > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:55 PM -0500, "Tom Perrine" < > tom.perr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh great sysadmin collective mind, > > I was at a Gartner conference last week, and they commented that "78% of > Gartner customers are planning or committed to Office 365". > > But everyone was talking about all the problems, stalls, fails and WTF; > many of uswere looking for anyone who had completed a migration to o365 > successfully. > > There were some companies that said they would "hopefully finish the > migration early next year, maybe", I didn't find any people (at large > companies) that were done. > > We can debate SaaS and on-prem email all day long. Personally, as long as > it works and my users are happy, and it's secure, I don't care if I run it > or someone else. > > I just want to make sure that no matter how any of this goes, I have > happy, productive users. That's my #1 concern for any service, whether we > do it or it gets outsourced. > > What I'm looking for is any pointers to (large) companies that have > completed the o365 transition. There have to be some out there. > > (I could make many of the same comments about large enterprises moving to > Google for business as well, I bet.) > > Thanks, > --tep > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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