MS Office 365 for Education

Agenda: what it means to have Office 365 for education and what is the upgrade/migration plan for live@edu?

Office 365 core: Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange

Everyone upgraded from live@edu moves into an Exchange plan 1 by default. other options cost.  The cheapest is A2 which is free, but has limited options. 

Looks like we should look into moving to the A2 plan.

Supports federated identity and single sign on.  Also certified with FISMA, HIPPA and ISO 27001.  Geo-redundant as well.

Options for Identity Management:

Going to support Shibolleth/ADFS.  This is very good. 

SSO Toolkit users currently should plan on moving to shibboleth.  This will impact us for sure.  we will want to move to shibboleth from the SSO solution we have now. [ This is true now for both Google and Live.  Need to move on this!]

Service help dashboards.  How are user’s supported?  Support is handled by us.  Users contact us first, and then we need to contact MS if need be.

***Alumni do not qualify for sharepoint for life for free.  so how do we transition students to alumni?

Customization options?  Need to understand this more.

Live@edu upgrade overview

Currently we are in a phase that is opt in, but it very manually intensive.  lots of work on the admin’s side.

At end of summer, should be able to do this with more tools.

Beginning of 2013 – customers will be scheduled for migration.  Believe it will take ~12 months for everyone to be migrated.

System requirements: clients require IE 7 or newer, desktops require office 2007 and newer. 

provisioning: MAV3 is not supported.  This will require Dir Sync.  [gourija just asked, and it sounds like remote powershell will still be supported]

SSO: requires shibboleth

outlook.com moves to outlook.com/domainname

Upgrade experience:

upgrading now, temp paswords must be assigned and used.  yucky.  don’t want to go early

scheduled experience in Q1 of 2012 will automatically convert passwords.

Upgrade process sounds complicated right now. Sounds like user IDs have to change, along with passwords.  lots of manual steps.

LiveIDs need to be decoupled.  today students have liveID that we control and manage.  after transition, user keeps liveID.  user gets a new orgID.  this will be what we are managing going forward.

Skydrives associated with liveIDs: institution will not be able to manage those resources any longer.  skydrive is being replaced with sharepoint.   [this is a bit of a pain since we have been pushing more and more people to skydrive]

This migration is going to be a pain.  There are lots of changes both institutionally as well as for the end user.  We are going to have to evaluate this and really plan for this.  We also need to plan on whether or not we want to continue advertising skydrive if we want to do this.