Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud

The short version: whether your business is small, medium, or large, and whatever your budget may be, if you are considering Office 365, this book is an absolutely vital reference. The fact that the authors work in this field specifically helping companies make decisions and move to O365 means their real-world advice is very practical and very helpful.The full review:This book goes into detail from the perspective of an outsider, and that's important. The authors work for a company that helps businesses decide whether they should move to Office 365, and how to do so, and that's why they speak to the business. The writing is aimed at companies and it probably covers just about any question you can think of when trying to decide if Office 365 is right for you and how you should implement it. We get advice on how to calculate costs against your current operations and we get suggestions on how to choose a plan that are drawn from their real-world experiences.Even though parts of this book are business-speak and parts of it have to get technical, the authors do try hard to explain things clearly to either camp. I would imagine this book would most benefit your CIO, Purchasing Agent, or any other tech decision-maker.The interesting thing about Office 365 is that there are a lot of additional things that come with the purchase of a subscription. For example, most plans include the ability to install Office 2013 down to your users' desktops, but there are also tools that make sure those desktops are kept updated, or kept secured. There are details about how Outlook 365 will work with your Exchange servers (or Microsoft's, if you do a full migration). There is the ability to set business policies that help prevent employees from sending out confidential information. And there's all the synchronization that goes between Office 365, SkyDrive (now called OneDrive), and BYOD users who want to flip from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone with a minimum of hassle.If there were one drawback to the book, it's that it doesn't provide much information on how to calculate the cost of transitioning your business. I suspect though that this is because there are so many different ways businesses might have their current setup, how they function, and how they manage their IT and costs. I suggest any company looking at migration use this book *and* take an honest stab at running the numbers for your business. You might be surprised at how different the costs are today. Definitely a very valuable reference for businesses of any size.

I bought this book because I need a solution for my business as well as for some of my clients.There is a lot of noise about cloud solutions but I heard three things that made me look for expert information on Office 365:1. You can automatically sync your desktop, laptop, tablet and phone.2. You don’t have to buy new operating systems and basic business software suites repeatedly.3. This approach works whether you’re a one man band or an enterprise.There is more information in this book than I will ever be able to use.I’m not a technologist. I’m a CEO. I use this stuff without having a complete understanding of how it works. After the first two or three chapters I’m well out of my depth. But the first part of this book is right up my alley. The cost/benefit analysis is direct and easy to understand. The examples, a cup cake company and a more common small enterprise are clear, direct and get at the kind of questions that I need answered.It is immediately obvious that the two guys that wrote this book have handled migrations to Office 365 and understand the business arguments as well as the knowledge gap between the C-suite and the technology team. Anyone running an enterprise with more than a handful of people should look at how to engage their services. Based on what I see here you’ll get straight answers.I passed the book along to a CTO friend to look at the 400 and odd-change pages I couldn’t dig into. I asked him what he thought about it. His response was that when his company does a migration this book will be a great resource.

Have found this book to be highly informative and detailed for an individual or business to learn more about Windows 365, how to migrate to it and why it is so necessary today in this fast paced business world.With cloud services becoming more popular everyday, it is becoming more of the norm for people to want to use the cloud services and programs such as Office 365. There are so many reasons why people are switching over to Office 365 or maybe considering the switchover to it.What is so important in this book is that it is written with the business person in mind or commuter in mind. And those who are using the MS Office platform and need to take it to the next level.Every section of this book I learned things I did not know and I thought I knew quite a lot about Office 365. For example, I was aware of the Remote Connectivity. This book has a very helpful section on this.And I found that this book pretty much covers it all! This book has plenty of helpful information. And I find it is an excellent reference book!Highly recommend this book.

We moved to Office 365 when it first came out and could have used this book then. It tells you how to make the move and – more importantly in some cases – what *not* to do. We made some mistakes which could have been avoided. As an owner of a small business, I had been faced with buying a new server that was unbudgeted. I chose instead to move to Office 365 and we haven’t looked back since. We love it. However, I wish I had this book in the early days! I found the glossary very helpful. When I ordered this book, the print shipment was delayed so I bought the Kindle version. I found it difficult to navigate the book on the Kindle as I wanted to jump around a lot. The book (all 600+ pages) is easier to reference and will be very helpful to any business using Office 365.

Useful but more of a cookbook on how to do things rather than giving much theory/detail to the services. I personally found "Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out" much more useful on both theory and implementation so this book was hardly used.

Really good book, and the fact it was a free kindle book was even better! lots of info in there, I've done a number of migrations already but reading this book has made me look at them from a slightly different angle.

Good read - Very insightful and great for small businesses looking to provide enterprise class service and reliability for manageable costs.

Now that the cloud is here to stay, you need to mug up on how best to use it especially if you've bought in to having the whole Office suite.

But it does undeniably cover most of the important stuff. I wish it could tell me how to delete the OneDrive synchronisation folder it has made on my Windows7 Laptop's Explorer!