1. Planning, Implementing and Supporting Office 365
Our journey from start to finish

2. Planning, Implementing and Supporting Office 365
What is our overall Purpose?
Goals for implementation and use?
How did Gilmer ISD roll this out?
What are some Issues and Solutions?
How are we doing now?
Managing Office 365 Users
What is next?

3. What is our overall Purpose?
Provide useful cloud-based tools for teachers and students
Low cost to the school district
Zero Cost of ownership
Easy to train/learn
Ease of implementation and maintenance
Ready-to-use tools from the company
Support when needed
Exposure to multiple platforms
Google Docs
Office 365
Adobe products

4. Provide useful cloud-based tools for teachers and students
Access from multiple platforms
Phone, PC, Mac, Tablets
Native apps available
Swiss Army Knife
Easy to use and fast
Management Console
Student availability
Synchronization with Active Directory

5. Goals for implementation and use?
Must be lost cost (when I say “low”, I mean “Zero Cost”)
Must work with current systems / architecture – I don’t want to buy hardware
Needs to be easy to use – Cut down on training and build confidence early
Automated – needs to run as a service or on a schedule
Support – if we need help, someone should be available to answer questions

6. How did Gilmer ISD roll this out?
Azure AD Connect
Download and install
Organizations can provide users with a common hybrid identity across on-premises or cloud- based services leveraging Windows Server Active Directory and then connecting to Azure Active Directory.
Administrators can provide conditional access based on application resource, device and user identity, network location and multifactor authentication.
Users can leverage their common identity through accounts in Azure AD to Office 365, Intune, SaaS apps and third-party applications.
Developers can build applications that leverage the common identity model, integrating applications into Active Directory on-premises or Azure for cloud-based applications

7. How did Gilmer ISD roll this out?
Azure AD Connect – System Requirements
Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016
prerequisites/.
Installation Instructions
1:11.42 – Video on the process – we wont watch it here 

8. What are some Issues and Solutions?
Installation
You will need to know your AD information
Follow the wizard
Set up an office 365 Admin user
Provide DOMAIN ADMIN permissions to the AD object
Apply correct user in the wizard
Synchronization
Passwords
Some were not uniform – the system complained
Some were not present
Usernames
Some were not in convention with Azure – had to remove some hyphenated names
Some were “duplicated” in the upload – Renamed or deleted and re-added

9. What are some Issues and Solutions?
Sync Service Stoppage
Not often – but no warning
Once because of password issues
Sometimes because the server itself was wonkey - reboot
Notifications – when something is wrong
to designated address
View the wizard

10. How are we doing now?
A-Ok – we’ve had no major problems in the last 6 months.
We sync every 2 hours
365 Training and usage is up
365 ProPlus is available to all Faculty, Staff and Students
Additional Products have been added

11. How are we doing now? Existing Users – need to be given a license
New Users – Have to be set up
Add user to Ad with profile
Add user mailbox to exchange
Add user login to SIS
Add user license to 365
Mass Assign user (students)
Console of users without a license

14. How are we doing now? Office 365 as a user Easy to use
ios / android apps
Local install on up to 5 devices per user

15. What is next? Microsoft Classroom -- with Microsoft School Data Sync
Exchange in the cloud – with archiving
Sharepoint in the cloud as well
Mail travels though our filter first
New Platform for Onenote Classroom
Microsoft assigned Deployment Manager and FastTrack Engineer from Microsoft FastTrack Center

16. Questions?
Rusty Ivey