Thanks all that responded. Some beneficial reading. I'll let you all know how it goes if we chose to run with this idea.
Thanks again. From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Posted At: Thursday, April 4, 2013 5:26 AM Posted To: [email protected] Conversation: Office 365 Subject: RE: Office 365 Active sync will be fine. If you need internal devices such as printers etc to send mail Office 365 doesn't provide this facility. Look at running a different mail server for that task or even direct them to your isp's mail server if you have that option. Sharepoint documents can be access from Windows Explorer on the users computers with Skydrive Pro. This feature recently became available in Wave 15. Previously you could set up a network drive that pointed directly at the Sharepoint document library or you could use Sharepoint workspace. I haven't used Skydrive Pro yet but it is the way to go and it is baked in to Office 2013 so it is easy for users to access. Public folder support is also now available with Wave 15. For that number of employees you should look at ADFS to handle the authentication side of things. That isn't a small/quick task so read up on it (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj151794.aspx ) In smaller environments the Office 365 sign assistant does an average job(as does the Office 365 sync in 2011/2012 Essentials) but it would be a nightmare in large environments. ADFS also makes sense for the migration phase because unless you have a big internet pipe and a very lengthy outage window you will have some angry users waiting for access to their email. The problem with that is Exchange 2003 isn't supported. So you'll need to think carefully about how to handle the migration. https://www.migrationwiz.com/ is a popular solution that would probably be beneficial to you. I'd also be looking at having your users use OWA initially until you have deployed Office 2013. James. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2013 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office 365 Our Exchange 2003 has ActiveSync that has about 35 ipad/iphone/tablet/droids attached to it. We use blat to bounce emails off our internal server, we would want to be able to do something like that going forward. We have no sharepoint currently so Office apps are good on the cloud as long as the data files are able to be saved to the Network drives in house. We would want some public folder type access. We use SQL mail to send some not customer related emails and would want to be able to continue that going forward. Printers, switches, and Firewalls sent smtp traffic through the internal email server. We would like to continue doing that in the future. 427 computers, 250 employees with mailboxes.... Active Directory 2008. Hope that answers your questions?? Would want the ability to encrypt email on demand and per policy. ???? From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] Posted At: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:27 PM Posted To: [email protected] Conversation: Office 365 Subject: RE: Office 365 We use it, sell it, configure it and manage it. How many seats are you looking at and are there any specific reasons you might need on-premise or integration with other on-premise apps? Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 April 2013 20:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Office 365 Anyone using this service yet? I am thinking about moving my Exchange off to them and getting the Office Pro Plus package? Just wondering about security and other questions but didn't know how to find an unbiased article on Google so far everything I have found is 2 years old and bashing Microsoft for every offering such a thing as cloud based email or apps??? 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