Some handy white papers about Office 365
Security in Office 365 White Paper
Office 365
Some handy white papers about Office 365
Security in Office 365 White Paper
The Microsoft Office 365 Jumpstart series provides an excellent perspective of the overall value Office 365 provides to modern organizations in terms of productivity, access, familiarity, security, control and reliability.
Some interesting video’s from TechEd North America 2011 about Exchange 2010
Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier. The next release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0 Beta—includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0 Beta, you now have the ability to identify workloads and estimate the infrastructure size and resources needed for both Windows Azure and Hyper-V Fast Track. Also new to MAP 6.0 Beta is the Office 365 client assessment, enhanced VMware inventory, and Oracle schema discovery and reporting. Expanded assessment and discovery capabilities from MAP help you streamline planning for your next migration project. Plan what’s next with MAP.
New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 Beta release help you:
· Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform
· Accelerate planning to private cloud with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding
· Identify migration opportunities with enhanced heterogeneous server environment inventory
· Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness
· Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9
· Discover Oracle database schemas for migration to SQL Server
Download the beta materials on Connect:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165
The Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool provides analysis of your on-premises environment in preparation for an Office 365 enterprise deployment. The readiness tool is integrated with the guidance provided in the web edition of the Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide.
Download HERE
I run the tool in my test environment. See below the results
Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool
Beta
Office 365 Deployment Resource Kit build 01.00.00.00
Click here for the Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide for Enterprises
Domains
Deployment Guide: Adding Your Domain(s) to Office 365
All email domains discovered in your environment:
Total: 3
All primary email domains discovered:
Total: 2
Primary email domain suffixes with greater than 50 users:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
User Identity and Account Provisioning
Active Directory
Statistics
Total number of domains discovered in your forest: 1
Estimated total number of users: 59
Estimated total number of contacts: 0
Estimated total number of groups: 54
Estimated total number of mailboxes: 53
Estimated total number of objects for Directory Synchronization: 113
Note: Filters were applied to obtain the above object counts for an Office 365 deployment.
Forest and Domains
The following domains were discovered in your Active Directory forest:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
Trusts
No forest trusts found
You may deploy AD FS 2.0 and Directory Synchronization without multi-forest constraints
Schema and Forest/Domain Functionality Levels
Active Directory forest schema level: Windows Server 2008 R2
Exchange schema level: Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Domain Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2
Forest Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2
Domain Controller Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2
It appears that your Active Directory schema is prepared for Exchange Rich Coexistence
Deployment Guide: Exchange Rich Coexistence Requirements
Deployment Guide: Active Directory Cleanup
samaccountname (user name) Attribute
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
givenname (first name) Attribute
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
mail (email address) Attribute
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
No duplicates found
Character length test passed
Unsupported character test passed
proxyaddresses (email addresses) Attribute
No duplicates found
Unsupported character test passed
Directory Synchronization
Object count assessment:
Estimated number of objects for Directory Synchronization (entire forest): 113
Deployment Guide: Object Count Considerations
Enterprise Admin rights:
It appears that you are an enterprise admin
Directory Synchronization admin requirement met!
Deployment Guide: Directory Synchronization Required Permissions
Active Directory recycle bin:
Active Directory recycle bin is enabled in your forest this may impact your total object count quota for Directory Synchronization.
Office 365 Single Sign On and Identity
AD FS 2.0 Directory Cleanup Check:
UserPrincipalName (logon ID for Office 365) Attribute
Update values once you have verified your organization does not have any other application dependencies on the UserPrincipalName attribute.
Deployment Guide: Active Directory Cleanup
Unsupported characters test passed
Spaces in logon value test passed
Unicode character test passed
Note: All Unicode characters will be converted to underscores (_) in the UserPrincipalName field.
No UserPrincipalName duplicates found
Discovered users without a user logon name (blank value) for UserPrincipalName
You will need to provide each user a UserPrincipalName in order for these users to sign into Office 365.
Below is a list of your UserPrincipalName domain suffixes in use:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
Note: During the Office 365 Beta only one namespace (root and child domains) per AD FS 2.0 farm
Example contoso.com and root.contoso.com would require 1 AD FS 2.0 farm and fabrikam.com would require an additional AD FS 2.0 farm
Password length per domain:
Exchange Online
Discovered Exchange Server(s) on-premises:
Estimated total number of Exchange Servers: 1
Statistics:
Estimated total number of users with default mailbox size (True): 53
Estimated total number of users with larger than default mailbox size (False): 0
Estimated total number of objects with Exchange organization level quota: 6
Lync user assessment:
Estimated total number of users leveraging Office Communications/Lync on-premises: 2
Sip domains:
The following sip domains were discovered:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
User object count assessment:
The number of user objects in your forest is supported.
Deployment Guide: Object Count Considerations
Client and End User Experience
Deployment Guide: Rich Experience Client Requirements
Summary of client computer readiness (Office 365 single sign-on and rich client checks):
Below is an estimate of computer operating systems NOT ready for Office 365 rich client experience:
Total: 0
Below is an estimate of computer operating systems ready for Office 365 rich client experience:
Windows XP Service Pack 3: 3
Windows 7 Service Pack 1: 3
Total: 6
IP Configuration:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.60
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.254
Trace route to your default gateway:
Tracing route to 192.168.150.254 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.150.254
Trace Route test to Exchange Online:
Tracing route to outlook.com [65.55.94.40]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.150.254
2 * 24 ms 25 ms 82.169.11.254
3 25 ms 26 ms 26 ms 195.69.145.20
4 145 ms 146 ms 144 ms 10.14.234.234
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 10.14.234.234 reports: Destination net unreachable.
Trace complete.
For additional tests utilize the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
Port Query Tests:
Deployment Guide: Ports and Protocols
portal.microsoft.com
Made a TCP 443 connection to portal.microsoftonline.com
Outlook.com
Made a TCP 443 connection to outlook.com
Outlook.com IMAP
Made a TCP 993 IMAP connection to outlook.com
Outlook.com POP
Made a TCP 995 POP connection to outlook.com
Outlook.com SMTP
Made a SMTP TCP 587 connection to outlook.com
Active Directory Federation Services End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to nexus.microsoftonline.com
Directory Synchronization End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com
Office 365 PowerShell End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to ps.microsoftonline.com
Outlook.com PowerShell End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to ps.outlook.com
Office 365 Community End Point
Made a TCP 80 connection to community.office365.com
Lync Online SIP Connection
Made a TCP 443 connection to sipdir.online.lync.com
Lync Online Federation
Made a TCP 5061 connection to sipfed.online.lync.com
Domain Name System (DNS) name records checks:
Found the following MX DNS record(s):
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
wardvissers.local
primary name server = ward-dc01.wardvissers.local
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.wardvissers.local
serial = 761
refresh = 900 (15 mins)
retry = 600 (10 mins)
expire = 86400 (1 day)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
Information Gathered On:
WARD-DC01
Date: za 07-05-2011
Start Time: 18:19
End Time: 18:21
Today I have a relax day working from home . I have some time to play with Office 365 & Lync Online
I wonderd if there was a way to add a msn user to my Lync while using Lync Online.
I added my own msn account on lync. On MSN Messenger I get the qwestion if I want to add a new contact. Yes off course…
Tada…. You can add all your MSN friends to Office 365 or Lync Online
Microsoft released a white paper how to deploy Microsoft Exchange: as Exchange Server 2010 on-premises, Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud, or using both in a temporary or permanent hybrid scenario.
Knowing the benefits and limitations of each deployment option can help you make the right decision for your organization. Whatever you decide, the deployment flexibility that Microsoft provides with Exchange makes it easier for you to get the right solution for your business.
Download HERE the whitepaper