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Poll: Need Help Estimating Office 365 Deployment Effort (labor hours)
Office365 has quite a number of SKUs which contain quite a bit of products.
Since you mentioned Sharepoint, Pro Plus, It would be at least E3 or E5.
You didnt mention Exchange Online, Skype, Yammer... Will that be done by someone else?
E3/E5 also includes Azure RMS and DLP which also can be applied to Sharepoint. You mentioned control of information from approved devices. So does it include control of whether the approved device can forward the info to a un-approved device?
Off the top of my head I would look at least at the following -
1. ADFS / AAD Connect - AD readiness for ADFS, effort to fix if not ready? Part of your scope?
2. Infrastructure Readiness - Bandwidth, QOS, Internal Network, Security Devices. Effort to fix if not ready?
3. Pro-Plus Deployment - Client Readiness. Effort to fix if not ready? Part of your scope?
4. Pro-Plus Deployment - Using Tool. Tool Pre-requiste to work. Effort to fix if not ready? Part of your scope?
5. Pro-Plus Deployment - Manual. How many sites, What sort of help can client extend? Whats your manpower?
6. User Training & Enablement - Your scope? How do you intend to train 12k users?
7. Sharepoint - "Basic use" is a very scary word. Do you have the actual design they are after? Who know they may have 30 companies with 15 sub-divisions each and each of them want a "Basic" site. so that will be 450 basic sites. Do they expect you to setup document libraries, link to meta data, custom search...etc?
8. Intune - how are you planning to register the ipads? Will they want to register iphones and andriods as well?
If Exchange deployment is not your problem, do bear in mind that Office Pro Plus has outlook, which is a component of email access, so this has to be co-ordinated with the Exchange vendor.
Also there is a skype for business client in Office Pro Plus, so the Skype services will be dependent on you installing the Pro Plus to work as well.
Too little details for a rather complex project.