Best practices: Assessment for enterprise managed
The Best Practices Guide includes deployment recommendations and real-world examples from the Office 365 Product Group and delivery experts from Microsoft Services. For a list of all the articles, see Best practices.
Enterprise Managed success criteria is to deploy Office 365 ProPlus in a like-for-like fashion. Users should get the application set they had before, including Project and Visio, and their existing languages. 32-bit users should be kept on 32-bit, and 64-bit users should receive the appropriate 64- bit version. All InfoPath-based LOB applications must continue to work. Everything should work as before, with a minimal user impact and management overhead.
Assessment results
Size and distribution
20,000+ employees
17 supported languages
Worldwide across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions
1,000s of travelling users, most of whom are offsite for extended periods
Sites are ranging from small offices up to a larger campus
IT infrastructure
Windows 7 64-bit
Small pockets of Mac users, ~500 total, managed by a third party Mac software distribution tool
All systems have en-us language pack installed, with additional languages per region or pulled by the user
Desktops, notebooks, and shared devices for shift workers
Remote Desktop Services and Citrix farm with 1,000s of users
Static and dynamic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for a smaller user group
Network bandwidth is sufficient for daily business
Windows clients managed by System Center Configuration Manager
High bandwidth deployments (such as a 1 GB Office package) require pre -caching and staged deployment
Users do not have administrative rights on their machines
Network is a distributed layout with a small number of high-bandwidth internet interconnection points
Application landscape
Office 2010 Volume License (MSI) 32-bit
Groups of users who use Project 2010 and Visio 2010 (MSI) 32-bit
Finance department uses Office 2010 64-bit for working with large data sets
Small pockets still run Office/Visio/Project 2007 (MSI) 32-bit
OneDrive is in the evaluation phase and should not be deployed until signed off on
Due to legacy Line-of-Business (LOB) applications, InfoPath is required
Cloud infrastructure
Office 365 tenant with Azure AD Connect
On-Premises Active Directory Federation Services with Single Sign-on (SSO)
Exchange Online deployed in production
Self-service installations are blocked in the portal