Chapter 7. Preparing for a Hybrid Deployment and Migration
By now, you should have a relatively defined plan on what integration services you plan to leverage from Microsoft Office 365, along with how you plan to scale out these services. Our next objective is to start preparing our environment for the integration services. In this chapter, we will focus on working through the various core services available to Office 365 and their integration requirements for your environment. We will assume you have an existing Exchange Organization within your environment, consisting of Exchange 2013, or you are planning to add Exchange 2013 for this effort. To prepare, we will focus on the following areas:
- Preparing your Office 365 subscription
- Active Directory preparation and readiness check
- Basic infrastructure preparation
- Defining the migration process
- Bandwidth requirements
