1. Interoperability

3. So the real question: What does your enterprise strategy need to include to take advantage of cloud based services?

4. One size fits all. Well almost, two sizes fits all Success is based on volume, which in turn drives cost, which in turn drives volume Platform / service reliability is key. Contracted SLA is 99.9%, anything less, money flows back to the customer It’s a utility service

5. What is BPOS?

8. Microsoft Datacenter Locations Central and South America Europe Asia Africa Australia North America Quincy, Washington San Antonio, Texas Chicago, Illinois Dublin, Ireland Amsterdam China Japan Singapore Hong Kong

11. Enterprise class software delivered via subscription services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners Microsoft Online Services

12. ‘S’ (Standard) vs ‘D’ (Dedicated) Days to provision USL only (£) Scale 5-30,000 Internet only Cloud identity Limited feature sets SSO client tool Constant update Future Months to provision USL & SSL (£££) Scale 5000+ WAN connection AD tie in Increased feature sets No client software 6 month update Smaller future role

13. v2.0 of BPOS Closer to feature parity with on premise Wave 14 products Timescale = late this year, though some bits arriving now New identity platform Future: Wave 14

14. Identity Networking Security / Compliance Client side Strategy elements

15. Strategy Element: IDENTITY MFGADFSAD LiveID Identity Provider BPOS-S MSN Hotmail XBox Managed Domains / Orgs

16. Latency is the enemy Geo-replication, on the horizon for SharePoint WAN accelerators / cache devices BranchCache Client cache – Office Workspace (Groove) – 3 rd party products – Office 2010 – Microsoft Office Upload Center – lazy write on delta changes Strategy Element: NETWORKING

17. Strategy Element: SECURITY EU Safe Harbour Seal CyberTrust Certification ISO27001 – Datacentre – ‘S’ service – ‘D’ service – Soon SAS70 Type II Encrypt in transit FIPS 140-2 (D only) FERPA HIPAA Patriot act, admin accounts Encryption at rest – AD-RMS – S/MIME

18. BPOS Exchange is Outlook 2007 SP2+ Browser is IE 7 (plus 3 rd parties) Windows XP SP3 is a minimum, starting to move to Vista though for ADFS elements Strategy Element: CLIENT

19. 1.Employ MCS! 1.‘D’ or complex ‘S’ deals 2.Directory and identity work 3.Migration planning 4.SharePoint development work 2.Get a demo account 3.Read the service descriptions (search www.microsoft.com/download for ‘online service’) www.microsoft.com/download 4.Follow the blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msonlinehttp://blogs.technet.com/msonline 5.http://speedtest.emea.microsoftonline.comhttp://speedtest.emea.microsoftonline.com Actions