Tulsa techfest debunking common SharePoint and Office 365 myths

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Debunking Common SharePoint / Office 365

MythsDennis Bottjer

@dbottjer#TTF2015

About Dennis

Dennis Bottjer is the solution architect for Microsoft Silver Partner, ThriveFast LLC, which provides SharePoint consulting services across the central southwest region. Mr. Bottjer brings several years of FORTUNE 100 Financial Sector enterprise development and architecture experience to ThriveFast. He has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry and holds MCP and MCTS certifications. Mr. Bottjer is currently the president of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group and the former president of the Jacksonville Developers User Group. He routinely speaks at users groups and SharePoint Saturday events.

@dbottjer

www.DennisBottjer.com www.thrivefast.com

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Myth: Once SharePoint is installed you’re done!

Facts

Configuration: Site Structure Content Databases Search Tuning (Crawl Schedules) Security Feature / Functionality Rollout

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Myth: The cloud is insecure!

Facts

24-hour monitoring of data centers. Multi-factor authentication, including biometric scanning for

data center access. Faulty drives and hardware are demagnetized and destroyed. Encryption in transit with SSL/TLS and Encryption at rest Threat management, security monitoring, and file/data

integrity Lock box http://bit.ly/1ISg1zk

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Myth: You don’t own your data!

Facts

Customers own the data and the rights associated with the data.

At anytime, download your data from Microsoft and return it to its original resting place.

Access for 90 days to export all of your data after canceling

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Myth: Data is only available when online!

Facts

Office 365 includes desktop office apps OneDrive caches documents locally and syncs

with cloud when connectivity allows Office Mobile Apps available for popular platforms

such as iOS and Android OneNote and Outlook have disconnected stories

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Myth: SharePoint and O365 aren’t cross device

or cross platform!

Facts

Desktop Office available for Mac and PC Mobile versions available for Windows, iOS and

Android OneNote is cross platform SharePoint / SharePoint Online support IE, Firefox,

Chrome and Safari. http://bit.ly/1Duxyxj

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Myth: Office 365 isn’t cost effective

Facts

OPEX VS CAPEX No upgrade fees Daily maintenance included

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Myth: SharePoint is Dead

Facts

Microsoft announced SharePoint 2016 as the next On-Prem version.

SharePoint 2016 has a greater hybrid story (cloud integration)

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Myth: SharePoint is just a fancy file share

Facts

Some truth But Fancy means:

Workflow Check-in / Checkout Versioning Search

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Myth: SharePoint always has to look like

SharePoint

Facts

Branding used to be very difficult SharePoint supports themes and custom branding Design Manager simplifies the branding process Standards compliant HTML5 and CSS

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Myth: InfoPath is Dead

Facts

One does not simply kill InfoPath Forms Services will be included in SharePoint 2016 Forms Services is still supported in O365 Support through 2023 http://bit.ly/1JQLeUh

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Myth: SharePoint can’t be customized

Facts

Approach O365 On PremisesCustom Web Parts XFull Trust Solutions XApp Model X XJavaScript X XBranding X X3rd Party Apps X XInfoPath X X

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Myth: The app model is required to develop and deploy customizations to

SharePoint

Fact

There are many choices and approaches for customizing SharePoint

The App Model should be evaluated but it’s not the only game in town

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Myth: SharePoint is slow

Facts

SharePoint is resource hungry and needs feeding SharePoint needs to be configured and tuned Don’t ignore the database

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Myth: Office 365 cannot be backed up

Facts

Requires 3rd Party Metalogix provides backup and governance Email still recoverable 30 days after deleted

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Myth: Requires dedicated SQL

Facts

SQL can be shared Does not require enterprise Do not use SQL Express!

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Thank You!