Any deployment plan should begin with business goals—you need to understand what the goals are so that you'll be able to see whether you're successful. In evaluating SharePoint Hybrid scenarios, you need to understand what SharePoint Hybrid features are available, what benefits they bring, and whether they are valuable to your organization.
Examples of mapping business goal requirements may include the following:
- Maybe your organization is trying to avoid investing in more on-premises storage for home directories, so transitioning on-premises file storage to OneDrive for Business is a possible solution.
- If you are extending your presence into Office 365 and are concerned about users being able to easily find data, configuring hybrid search can help users locate content on either platform.
The following sections will help you evaluate the capability of the features.
Sites
Sites are the primary content component of SharePoint Server. There...