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Poll: Need Help Estimating Office 365 Deployment Effort (labor hours)
Hello,
I have an enterprise client with about 12,000 user who is planning an Office 365 Deployment and is asking for help with estimating the number of labor hours that would be needed internal...
I agree with the other respondents about needing more info and doing some requirements gathering.
For ProPlus, a big decision point will be deployment method. Are you going to allow click to run by the users or do it using existing software deployment tools, such as SCCM. Allowing click-to-run will take much less effort by IT staff.
In regards to O365 video, that is almost trivial. All you need to do is create some channels and get some people with videos to start uploading them. You may need to spend a few hours creating some communications materials to get the word out about how the channels are to be used. This workload can be a quick win as it really shows off the benefits of cloud based services since everyone can easily use it from any device.
For ProPlus, a big decision point will be deployment method. Are you going to allow click to run by the users or do it using existing software deployment tools, such as SCCM. Allowing click-to-run will take much less effort by IT staff.
In regards to O365 video, that is almost trivial. All you need to do is create some channels and get some people with videos to start uploading them. You may need to spend a few hours creating some communications materials to get the word out about how the channels are to be used. This workload can be a quick win as it really shows off the benefits of cloud based services since everyone can easily use it from any device.
Thanks everyone for the responses. Just to clarify, what I am asking for is just a general idea based on actual customer experiences:
So, can any customers who have deployed Office 365 just report back with a rough idea of the level of effort and labor that was invovled on the customer side (not the conslulting side). We don't need it to be too specific - just a very general idea.
- For the SharePoint migration, you need time to do a premigration analyses of each site collection , this can take 15 minutes or many hours if it a big deep complex collection. Communication with site owners and some education about what's new and what they will need to do to review and accept the migrated site can take 1-2 hours, the amount of time it will take the owner to do the actual review will vary, plan on 1-4 hours. Plan on some ongoing support sessions to show case the new services.
I like to go slow so that the tech support team can provide good service and not get overwhelmed, providing some FAQs is always a good idea.
