Best practices: Assessment for locally managed
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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.
Locally Managed success criteria is to deploy Office 365 ProPlus in a like-for-like fashion, replacing the previous version of Office. Users should get the application set they had before, including Visio and Project, and the existing languages. InfoPath-based LOB applications must continue to work, with minimal user impact and management overhead. Locally Managed only supports 32-bit Office so all users will remain on 32-bit Office.
Assessments results
Size and distribution
5000 employees
3 supported languages
Canada, USA, and Germany
< 100 travelling users, some who are offsite for extended periods
Sites are a main office in each country, limited small offices throughout each country
IT infrastructure
Windows 7 64-bit
Small group of Mac users, ~25 who users have local administrator rights
Mac clients are not managed by client management software
All systems have en-us language pack installed with additional languages in CanAm region or pulled by the user
Remote Desktop Services and Citrix farm with < 500 users
Network bandwidth is sufficient for daily business
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 using Project 2010 and Visio 2010 32-bit
All applications other than Access being deployed
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 including installations are not blocked in the portal