​As CIOs, IT managers, system administrators and business stakeholders, it’s our goal to make sure technical infrastructure is not an impediment to team collaboration across our organizations. Just a few years ago, industry analysts were convinced cloud-only collaborative systems would provide the solution to this SharePoint infrastructure dilemma. However, today reality is full of “hybrid” environments: cross-version SharePoint (2007/2010/2013), geographically-distributed on-premises environments, and cloud to on-premises connected systems. In this class, we take a look at several hybrid SharePoint infrastructure scenarios that have allowed organizations to fully integrate their technology investments and human capital.

1. Adam Levithan
Product Manager, Metalogix
alevithan@metalogix.com
@collabadam
Debunking the Hybrid SharePoint
Infrastructure Dilemma

2. Adam Levithan
@collabadam
AIIM & IT
Unity
Blogger
Product
Manager 9+ years in Collaborative Systems
SharePoint expertise: Out-of-the-
box solutions, business process
management, Governance,
adoptions, information architecture
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About Me

3. Agenda
› Describing collaboration today
› Organizing collaboration across technologies
› Overcoming barriers to management
› Questions

4. What Users Want
Access to documents and content - regardless of technical issues
"If I can't get to my documents, I'll just use a different method for my workflow..."
Availability to documents
"You promised me 99.999% uptime and availability for all of my information - this is a
Mission Critical operation and I need them all the time..."
Ownership of information
"Thanks for letting me manage the permissions to my files, it helps to ensure that I control
who has access... wait , what do you mean I can't change who has access?"
Ease of Use
"Why does my information not synchronize and show up between the different portals
and apps?"

5. Our Goals as Stakeholders
Keeping all users engaged and active (no matter where they are or
how they connect)
Providing the best possible speed and access to content even
through disruptions
Keep confidential information shared with partners/agencies in
approved environments (and safe)
Keep information authoritative across all systems

6. Intelligent Business Cloud
7
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2487

7. EXPERIENCES INFRASTRUCTURE COMPLIANCE
Investment Areas
Bill Baer, Seth Patton - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/FND2203

8. Office 365 is Microsoft’s
fastest growing
commercial product ever
User growth
400% monthly active user
growth
Content growth
300% YoY content growth
| workloads
PortalsSites OneDrive
of Fortune 500 companies have
purchased Office 365 in the last
12 months80%
Annual revenue
run rate
$6.3 Billion
Bill Baer, Seth Patton - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/FND2203

9. Moving Workloads
Identity/ Authentication
RecordTemporary
TypeofContent
Instant Message
E-Mail
Social
Team Sites/ ExtranetOnline Storage
Intranet
Document/
Records Management
Individual Team Enterprise
Audience
Originally presented at Portal Solutions http://www.portalsolutions.net

10. Infrastructure as Information Architecture (IAIA)
• It’s true, but not a real acronym

11. Infrastructure as Information Architecture (IAIA)
On-Premises On-Premises
Identity/
Authentication
Hybrid
Customized Business Process
Document/ Records Management
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives
Cloud
Online Storage
Extranet
Social
E-mail

12. Challenges
• Difficult to integrate
content over
multiple
technologies

13. Challenges
• Low bandwidth and
high latency slow
worker performance

14. Challenges
• Downtime threatens
key operations and
wastes money
Photo Courtesy of U.S.
Central Command

15. Challenges
• Regulatory /
compliance risks
Photo Courtesy of U.S. Central Command

16. • 3rd party tools required
• Not everything equal
− Capabilities that are retired
− New App Model
• Classic vs. Claims
• Look & Feel/ User experience
differences
• Managing distributed farms
• OneDrive for Business and Windows
Explorer Views
Considerations
• Cross version
SharePoint
(2007/2010/2013)

17. • Network topology, Latency &
Challenged networks (WAN)
• Keeping information up to date -
Authoritative information
• Compliance / Risk
− PII regulations
• If using satellites - $
• Data Collisions/ Health of Infrastructure
- performed by different teams in
different locations
Considerations
• Geographically
distributed

18. • Throttling of Transactions
− Office 365/ Azure / AWS
• Network bandwidth requirement
planning- http://aka.ms/tune
• Availability of APIs / limitations of what
content can be accessed
• Authentication / SSO / ADFS / Azure
AD
• Backup Services
• Actual Cost – Beyond just storage and
processing
Considerations
• Cloud to
- On-Premises
- Cloud

19. Actual Total Cost
• Synchronization
of Content
• Staffing
• Tools
• Adoption
• Off-Boarding

20. Network
topology,
Latency &
Challenged
networks (WAN)

21. Who Are You?
Authentication
Authorization
Permissions

22. Security and
Compliance

23. What to do
• Prioritize Content
− What type of Hybrid are you building?
− Move e-mail first 
• Identify the initial effort to move content
− Migration of content
− Synchronization of content
• Perform the Business Cost Analysis
− Describe the risk of NOT utilizing Hybrid
− How will the Infrastructure be managed?

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