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Moving to Microsoft 365:
You Got There,
Now What Do You Do?
John Ferringer

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John Ferringer
http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com
https://www.SlideShare.net/ferringer

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Agenda • Maturity in M365 & the Five Ws
• Where?
• Why?
• What?
• Who?
• How?
• When?

4.
Maturity
in Microsoft 365

5.
Strategy without tactics
is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy
is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

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I think my daughters
have a pretty healthy
self-awareness,
but I can’t speak
on their behalf.
- Annie Lennox

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We had it so good…
and operated
platforms

8.
Now we have
the cloud…
and manage
services

9.
Do You Understand
Where You Are?
(and what that means?)

10.
Do You Understand
Where You Are?
(and what that means?)

11.
That’s Not Exactly Right…
• It’s also someone else’s
software…
• And their vision.
• And their design.
• And their platform.
• And it follows their timeline.

12.
Why Do We Need
a New Mindset?

13.
Why Do We Need
a New Mindset?

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Change is the only constant.
- Heraclitus

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Other things
are changing too…
How should
we handle them?

16.
Be Water, My Friend

17.
Here Come the Buzzwords!

18.
What is DevOps?

19.
We Don’t Have
to Change What
We Care About, Do We?

20.
We Don’t Have
to Change What
We Care About, Do We?

21.
How do you view your digital transformation?

22.
When I say Collaboration…

23.
Define a Taxonomy…

24.
Define a Scoring System
1. Initiating
2. Emerging
3. Transforming
4. Mature

25.
What Matters to You?
What Matters
to Your Users???

26.
How Do You Doin?

27.
How Do You Doin?

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What’s Out There to Measure?
• PowerShell
• Graph APIs
• Secure Score
• Compliance Score
• Productivity Score
• Workplace Analytics
• Connectivity.Office.com
• Audit Logs
• What else?

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Are There Tools That Can Help?
• M365 DSC
• https://aka.ms/M365DSC
• PowerShell
• Azure
• Functions
• Automation

30.
When Will This Be Over?

31.
When Will This Be Over?

32.
Remember,
M365 is an
evergreen service

33.
Remember,
this is a
strategic activity

34.
Questions?

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Thank you