SharePoint 2013 Migration Offer Available from FastTrack
Today we launched the SharePoint 2013 Migration Offer to help customers move data to Office 365. This is a limited time offer for the Microsoft FastTrack team to move your on-premises SharePoint 2013 content to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. You must request this offer before March 31, 2017. When you leverage this offer, FastTrack will assess your SharePoint 2013 environment prior to migration and will provide guidance on what content can be migrated and remediation options available. Team site migrations to SharePoint Online includes migrating document libraries and documents, list and list items, site title, site logo, and others. My site migrations to OneDrive for Business include documents, folders and folder structure, and documents & folders permissions and sharing. Refer to the offer FAQ a complete list items available for migration. To get started with the offer sign in to FastTrack and request the offer from the list of available offers. The offer is available to customers with at least 150 licenses for an eligible service or plan for your Office 365 tenant. To learn more about eligible services and plans, see Eligible Services and Plans. Threre is no fee for the services provided by the migration offer, so sign in and request the offer today. Brian ShiersConnecting with people to drive adoption
Today, the move to the cloud is broadening how IT pro roles are perceived—providing more opportunities for you to participate directly in business decision making and strategy development. Many of you are likely involved in—or even directly responsible for—increasing Office 365 adoption to speed your company’s ROI and improve productivity. And if you’re like a lot of the IT pros I’ve talked with, you’ve recognized the need to develop or deepen a new set of skills that can help you succeed. The evolution of your role might require you to work more closely with users than you have in the past. So, your people skills—leadership, communication, relationship-building—take on increased importance in helping you: Engage users and overcome their reticence to technology change. Understand users’ needs, and then match those needs to Office 365 capabilities. Create an implementation plan to motivate and train users. For now, we’ll explore three ways you might engage users and overcome their reticence to technology change. In future posts, we’ll take a closer look at understanding and matching users’ needs to Office 365 capabilities and creating an implementation plan. Be sensitive to how stressful this can be for some users Anxiety about learning something new can galvanize into fear-avoidance behaviors that can make adoption even more challenging—for you and for your users. As Mott MacDonald Business Architect Simon Denton stated, “We’re in a time now where we can’t just expect people to use what we provide…Employees want to understand how a new product is relevant to them and their work, and how it will help them with their clients.” For Mott MacDonald, the best approach to encourage Office 365 adoption was to use customized posters and email templates from Microsoft FastTrack, and by identifying and engaging its employees most interested in and enthusiastic about the new Office 365 capabilities as technology champions. These champions played critical role in communicating about the transition with colleagues across the organization. Putting more effort into promoting, supporting, and fostering adoption paid off for Mott MacDonald in the higher level of engagement employees demonstrated throughout the transition process. Consider exactly what users might be resisting The user reluctance you see could be about more than the technology change itself. Research has shown that in many cases, people are just as fearful about social change—how the relationships they’ve built within and across teams will be affected—as they are about adopting new technologies. However, you know that Office 365 will enable them to develop even closer relationships with co-workers because they’ll have tools at their fingertips that enable stronger collaboration. As Harold Groothedde, technology solutions director at Coats explains, with Office 365, “Employees can communicate with one another instantly, in any way that suits the need.” He adds that Coats has been able to “connect a workforce fragmented across many sites and time zones in a seamless way.” From email to video calls, the new collaboration channels at Coats allows employees to connect with each other directly and instantly—in a way that’s most comfortable for them. Show users how much better work is going to be Go beyond project schedules, deployment details, and training. Most of us are working on almost twice the number of teams we were five years ago. Juggling more projects that involve more people can make it even more challenging for us to step out of our comfort zones. We become so totally focused on getting things done, that we just find what works and stick with it. That’s why it’s important to take the time to help users understand how Office 365 can make their work lives better. And how even small changes can have a big impact on their productivity. James McGlennon, EVP and CIO at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, shared that Office 365 puts “business analytics tools in the hands of everyone, not just analysts and power users…to drive product innovation.” You might even find opportunities to reassure them about what won’t change. At Liberty Mutual, for example, day-to-day operations haven’t changed dramatically, but better collaboration across different business units has increased accessibility to more information and valuable insights—enabling employees to make better decisions. What’s next? The tips I’ve discussed here are just a few of the ways you can more effectively engage users to overcome their fear of technology change. Check out Microsoft FastTrack for resources, tools, and expert guidance to help you successfully drive adoption. And learn how other companies have successfully increased adoption by taking a look at our case study series about approaching adoption as a marketing campaign and outsourcing adoption. Also, be sure to download the introduction of the Office 365 Adoption Guide for end-to-end planning and implementation guidance.How do you measure adoption success?
How do you measure adoption success? In the FastTrack Office 365 Adoption Guide, Microsoft lays out an end-to-end view of a successful Office 365 rollout. One of the key steps in the FastTrack deployment guide is defining what success looks like and defining measurable goals accordingly. Phase 3 of the FastTrack Adoption Guide - Drive Value involves resources and advice around measuring success. As FastTrack indicates “driving adoption is a continuous cycle that doesn’t end after launch or measuring impact.” With that in mind, the metrics and resources discussed below are meant to be tracked over time to ensure continuous use and added value to the business. Here are some of the Adoption Measurement Resources that can help guide you in defining success and tracking adoption after rollout. 1. Microsoft’s Measuring Success Guide 2. Sample User Satisfaction Surveys – While quantitative metrics undoubtedly are a strong way to measure usage rates and ROI, qualitative end-user satisfaction surveys are another valuable way to collect information around adoption. User surveys are a means to gather quotes and more personalized evidence of the success of a deployment. Surveys also make end-users feel more involved in the solution process. Providing a clear picture of business impact, specifically related to ROI, can be a daunting task as Office 365 impacts many areas across the business. The resources above can help you think through both how to gauge adoption at an individual end-user level and on a broader scale understand how O365 is adding business value. Want to learn more about adoption metrics? Check out these links: · New Office 365 Adoption Resources (Jim Dubois Webinar) · O365 Admin Center - Reporting PortalEmail approval Button missing in Hybrid Scenario (Complete solution with troubleshooting)
In pure cloud or pure on-premises environment email approval works fine without any error. But in Hybrid scenario it’s very difficult to make sure email approval works when users are in cross premise environment. If you look for Microsoft Doc or any other third-party document, you won’t find any proper document. Here I am sharing one full step including all kinds of troubleshooting. The key and only factor of working with email approval is TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format). TNEF, also known as the Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format, Outlook Rich Text Format, or Exchange Rich Text Format, is a Microsoft-specific format for encapsulating MAPI message properties. All versions of Outlook fully support TNEF. Outlook on the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App) translates TNEF into MAPI and displays the formatted messages. Other email clients that don't support TNEF typically display TNEF formatted messages as plain text messages with Winmail.dat or Win.dat attachments. Step by step demonstration to resolve email approval issue: The email approval button was missing because you have disabled TNEF or TNEF is not enabled. To enable TNEF log into your exchange server and run two PowerShell command in your exchange management shell. Get-RemoteDomain | Select Name, DomainName, TNEF*, Trust*, AllowedOOF*, IsIn* [To check ] Get-RemoteDomain | Set-RemoteDomain -TNEFEnabled $true [To change] After you change the TNEF you will see Approval button reappeared in your outlook. But it will create you another problem. Your email will start getting Winmail.dat as attachment. To resolve the issue, you have to change the setting from your ECP. You are receiving Winmail.dat because you made the change only from exchange on premise side. You did not changed some from office 365 side. You have to make sure Rich text format is disabled or you can use HTML or plain text. Because not everyone can read or convert rich text format. Login to office 365 admin portal and navigate to exchange admin center (convert to classic exchange) Select mail flow Inside mail flow select remote domain Select Default one and make necessary changes (Screenshot-1) If you have only one create a new one for your custom domain Click plus and keep everything same except same option (Screenshot-2) In domain name place use *.contoso.com After everything setting properly sometimes you might see some approval might fail with a NDR message To resolve the issue, add all the on-premise system mailbox in office 365 as mail contact. First find system mailboxes from on premise using below command. Login to on premise exchange management shell and run below command Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | Fl Name, DisplayName Add them into office 365 as mail contact following below format. Format: SPTP:Email address removed Replace System mailbox value with the value you found from on premise Replace custom domain with your domain name. Example: SMTP:SystemMailbox{2CE344-31E-D-9D7-A7C7D7A0DAA}@contoso.com Give first name, last name, and display name whatever you want. Just make sure you add email address according to format. Go to Office 365 exchange admin center Go to recipient Go to contact Click add contactSocial Media Connections: Let's Network!
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FastTrack now assists with more threat protection capabilities
Announcing FastTrack remote guidance for Microsoft Cloud App Security and Microsoft 365 Defender solutions for endpoints, identities, cloud apps, email, and docs Microsoft FastTrack is committed to helping you realize the value of your Microsoft 365 security solutions by providing remote deployment guidance. FastTrack for Microsoft 365 provides remote deployment guidance at no additional cost for customers with 150 or more licenses of eligible plans. In addition to the baseline security assistance we already offer, FastTrack has expanded the benefit in threat protection to now include Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Cloud App Security, and guidance to leverage Microsoft 365 Defender. FastTrack will provide remote deployment guidance to help eligible customers configure and deploy these Microsoft security products: Microsoft Cloud App Security discovers and controls Shadow IT, helps ensure secure access to your apps and resources, protects your sensitive information, and detects threats in the cloud for you to take action on, surfacing valuable insights and recommendations to help improve your cloud security posture. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection) delivers preventative protection, post-breach detection, automated investigation, and response for your endpoints. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) helps protect all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and credential phishing, and automatically investigates and remediates attacks. Microsoft Defender for Identity (formerly Azure Advanced Threat Protection) helps secure on-premises identities across your organization by leveraging Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed at your organization. In addition, Microsoft FastTrack will show you how to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Defender (formerly Microsoft Threat Protection), which protects against attacks with automated cross-domain security. You can use your security data to prevent and detect threats, heal affected assets, and proactively hunt across your Microsoft 365 data. FastTrack for Microsoft 365 provides remote guidance for customers with 150 or more licenses, at no additional cost with your eligible Microsoft 365 subscription. This is an ongoing benefit throughout the duration of your eligible subscription, delivered by Microsoft and approved FastTrack Ready Partners. If you want to learn more, review eligibility and the service description here. If you’re ready to get started, request assistance at microsoft.com/FastTrack (sign in required). When you request assistance from FastTrack, you’ll select which product you want guidance on, and Microsoft 365 Defender assistance will also be included with that product. Here is a screen shot of the Request for Assistance page on the FastTrack site: Interested in deploying Azure services to improve your security posture? FastTrack for Azure is a technical enablement program that works directly with customers and partners to help you build Azure solutions quickly and confidently. FastTrack for Azure brings together best practices and tools from engineering and real customer experiences, including business continuity and disaster recovery, security and management, and many more to guide customers from design, configuration, and development to production of Azure solutions. Learn more and check your eligibility at azure.microsoft.com/programs/azure-fasttrack/. We’d love to hear from you on our Tech Community channel. Give us feedback in comments or tell us what we should write about in the future.Live Webinar: Achieve More! Learn Key Functions of O365
FREE Live Training: Achieve More! Learn Key Functions of Office 365 A live presenter will walk through scenarios and encourage discussion and questions from attendees to learn out how Office 365 can make you more productive. Register today: http://aka.ms/O365achievemore Find other webinars like this one here: http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office/webinar/live
