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Poll: Need Help Estimating Office 365 Deployment Effort (labor hours)
- There is the need to migrate OnPrem Data to ODFB and SPO.
- Do you need to define an information architecture for your SPO Sites
- Security when accessing to SPO sites: I recommend to define Office 365 Groups and add these Groups to SPO so Groups member can access to the sites.
Thank you Juan. for this purpose please assume the following:
1. MIgrating from on-prem file shares to ODFB online
2. SharePoint online deployment is very basic for this initial phase: Only enabling SharePoint online for basic use and not migrating all existing data to it.
3. Customer's main concern is requiremnt for conditional access and control of informaiton (i.e. restrict access to internal data/files to only approved devices from approved locations).
Our engagements usually allow for few days of gathering requirements/examining the current environment, after which we can give (somewhat) accurate estimate. There's simply way too many factors you need to take into consideration, for example the client deployment will rely on the number of sites, method used, bandwidth even. Migrating files/email can also take a while and is usually performed outside of working hours, so it can be spread into few weeks even, depending on the amount of data, available bandwidth, etc.
Anyway, for conditional access take a look at the recently announced improvements: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/07/28/azuread-conditional-access-per-app-mfa-and-network-location-based-policies-are-ga/
- Agree with Vasil, ideally you should do a consultancy job before thinking on any kind of estimation. You need as much information as possible to make an accurate estimation
Thank you Juan and Vasil. The customer already has a cunsulting partner engaged. This question is not about the effort required by a conulting partner, but about the average actual real-life experices of enterprise customers who have deployed Office 365.
