Getting Ready for the Cloud with SADA Systems

• Start broad, from the outside -> in

• Idea Intro: Cloud Decisión Framework (CDF)

• Idea Intro: CoreIO

• Idea Intro; BPIO

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Start Early on Business Fundamentals:

• Vision – Why are you doing this?

• Drivers – What is pushing the directional change?

• Security – How important and when to engage

• Legal – Always the longest tail!

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Desktop | Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool (DRT)

• Domain Join PCs

• SSO Readiness

• Base Patch level

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Desktop | What else to check?

• Office 2007/2010 requirements

• For 2007, SP2 not SP3

• How large are your mailboxes?

• Are Outlook profile setup for Offline access?

• Equipment min hardware spec

• How will you deploy these:

• SIA

• Admin Templates

• Outlook Office/Outlook

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Desktop | What about non domain joined PCs?

• You Get 5 licenses!

• Home, Laptop, Desktop, etc…

• Intune can help!

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Desktop | What is Intune?

• Protect PCs from malware

• Manage updates

• Distribute software

• Proactively monitor PCs:

• Provide remote support

• Track hardware and

software inventory

• Set security policies:

• Manage your licenses

• Increase insight with

reporting

• ZERO Infrastructure Req’d!

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Desktop | What is Intune?

• All-in-one solution.

• Easy to get started and to use.

• Low overhead and maintenance.

• Always up-to-date.

• Simple billing.

• Try before you buy.

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Active Directory Services | Office 365 Deployment

Readiness Tool (DRT)

• Statistical information

• Active Directory schema and forest/domain functional data

• Trusts extract (checks for multi-forest constraints)

• Directory Synchronization

• Pre-requisite checks

• Attribute assessment

• Single sign on

• Attribute assessment

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Active Directory Services | Risk & Health Assessment

• Functional Level

• Replication

• Sites

• Topology

• Orphaned DCs

• Group Policy

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Infrastructure | Wide Area Network

• Bandwidth - test it!

• Latency - test it!

• How do remote sites/client connect?

• Accelerator (Riberbed GA's 365)

• Load balancers

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Infrastructure | Local Area Networks

• Port analysis on certain Office 365 endpoints

• DNS records assessment

• Get your credentials for public DNS management!

• How do remote sites/client connect?

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Infrastructure | Domain (w/ Exchange On Prem)

• Domains list

• Routable UPNs

• SIP address namespaces

• Public Folders & Use Cases

• 3rd Party Apps - HUGE

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Infrastructure | Did we forget something?

• What about TS/RDS/VDI?

• What about Citrix, XenDesktop, etc…?

• Let have a heart to heart offline.

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Change Management | The Basics

• Contracts/licensing

• Policies Refinement/Establishment

• Access Rights/terms of Use - End users

• Mobility/BYOD

• Archiving

• Retention

• Update your Documentation

• Instructions

• How To Guides

• Troubleshooting guide

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• Change Management | Saving the Best for Last

• Plan & Budget for Training

• IT Admin

• Helpdesk

• Trainer

• End User

Getting Ready for the Cloud

• 11 Years in Traditional IT

• Over 3 million cloud mailbox migrations

• 1st MS Cloud Innovator Award Winner

• Gold Certified MS Partner for 8 years in a row

• MS’s top Cloud Accelerate Managed Partner in the West Region

• Inc. 5000’s “Fastest Growing Companies”, 5 years in a row

• Free POCs & User Segmentation Studies

About SADA Systems, Inc.

Email: niv.dolgin@sadasystems.com or mssales@sadasystems.com

Direct line: (818) 942-1074

Visit: www.sadasystems.com

Niv Dolgin

Director of IT Services, SADA Systems