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Migration Toolkit for Partners

Below, you'll find links to some previously unavailable materails that will be very useful for Partners as they make plans to migrate a customer to BPOS. Be sure to check out the Discovery Checklist, as we well as the lecture in Migration by the engineering team. In addition, you'll find some documents from Support to help you figure error messages and their meaning when you use the migration tools.

 

    Business Productivity Online Suite Migration Toolkit for Partners

     

    Welcome to the Business Productivity Online Suite Migration Toolkit World Partner Conference Edition. Sign into www.quickstartonlineservices.com with your Windows Live ID then click on the below links to access the content.  

     

    Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite Migration Planning and Discovery Checklist

     

    A detailed listing of tasks and issues to consider when planning a migration to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.  Includes guidance for Trials, Choosing Services, Network Considerations, Workstation Preparation, as well as the individual services and migration. Links to available online resources are provided for each task.

     

    ·         Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite Onboarding and Discovery Checklist for Partners

    ·         Customer acceptance testing and checklist sample

     

    Migration Troubleshooting and Implementation Depth Guides

     

    These papers, produced by the Business Productivity Online Suite onboarding and support teams, provide detailed guidance for migration troubleshooting as well as step-by-step guidance for migration from a POP3 environment

     

    ·         Migration Troubleshooting and Implementation Depth Guides

     

    Migration Summit Workshop Recording and Presentations

     

    These are the decks and presentations from the Business Productivity Online Suite Partner Migration Summit held in Redmond in fall of ‘09.   Presenters from engineering, support and the product teams created and delivered these lectures packed with highly useful information real world migration experience including migrations from Exchange, POP3, and 3rd party systems

    ·         Migration Process Overview

    ·         Migration from Exchange to Exchange Online

    ·         Migrating from 3rd Party Platforms

    ·         Migrating from POP3 and IMAP

    ·         Site Planning and Preparation

     

     

     

    Guides and Resources

     

    A listing of valuable Migration and onboarding resources. Includes links to the SharePoint Online Infrastructure Planning Guide, Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit, and a Customer Acceptance Test Plan checklist

    ·         Microsoft Online Planning (MAP) and Discovering Tool

    ·         Exchange Online Infrastructure Planning Guide

    ·         SharePoint Online Infrastructure Planning Guide

    ·         Business Productivity Online Suite Migration Toolkit

    ·         Migration Whitepaper

     

     

    Posted: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:47 PM by Brett Hill

    Comments

    Danny Burlage said:

    Great job Brett, putting all the different resources online!

    # July 28, 2009 4:50 PM

    Lobmeyer said:

    Hi Brett,

    I am a potential customer not a Partner.  I have not found a partner to date that can provide a good explanation of Dedicated vs Standard BPOS.  As it is MSFT has made it much harder to find information on line.  There are still links but they are much harder to find.  

    Back to the Standard vs Dedicated.  I am specifically interested in the IM offering.  From a description on-line I found that the only way to have the IM offering where you can use the Public IM gateway (PIC) is with the BPOS dedicated offering.  WHY this restriction?   Also what are the requirements for purchasing the Dedicated offerings?  Are there minimums?  And again why?  If you are from a forward thinking small organization that needs the functionality of BPOS Dedicated why have minimums?  Can't you just charge more within reason for the Dedicated offerings.  My understanding is the Dedicated offerings have 5K seat minimum.  How many SMBs fall into that category?

    Also does the BPOS IM archiving feed into BPOS archiving?  In the past OCS did not integrate with Archiving.  How does a customer get confirmed real answers because all the Partners I have spoken to don't have definitive answers?

    # August 21, 2009 10:56 AM

    Brett Hill said:

    We are hard at work educating partners and the public on these details. You have great questions and they deserve good answers.

    There is some content on Microsoft.com/online so be sure you've looked there at the datasheets on the dedicated offering. That said, most partners are not liscend to offer the dedicated offering as it is a big engagement involving large companies, Micorosft, and typically many thousands of users. Each dedicated setup is a customzied, typically quite complex, involving signicant resources from Microsoft, the partner, and customer.It is not intended for the SMB as the setup requirments, scale, and customizations are simply out of scope for most SMB needs.

    To meet the needs of many SMB customers, it's necessary to offer services from a controlled menu of options where we don't have to tailor configuration for each user. To acheive that, there are service tradeoffs.

    The PIC gateway is something we're looking at but is quite complicated. It's easier to offer in a dedicated environement because the OCS service is dedicated to the individual customer with dedicated hardware. However in the standard environment - in our data center it is multi-tenant. This adds a lot of complexity to certain features that are not obvious from the end users point of view. This is why for example, we dont have email enabled lists in SharePoint online standard, but do in SharePoint dedicated. Also, while this is not your problem it a problem that gates quite a bit what we can and cannot do - international regulations shape the service offerings differntly in differnt locations. Getting these details worked out for every communcations service worldside takes some time. Rather than wait to have these features enabled at the first offering, it was decided to offer the services and work on features we'd like to have, as the services that are currently offered meets the needs of many, many SMBs and the price is, IMO, one of the best deals in IT.

    OCS standard at this time does not integrate with EHS archiving.

    Hopefully this helps.

    -brett

    # August 21, 2009 1:54 PM
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