What is our communications philosophy? What are the various communication types and channels? What happens when there is change or a service.

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What is our communications philosophy?
What are the various communication types and channels?
What happens when there is change or a service incident?
What is the Service Health Dashboard?
What are your questions and feedback?
Waves
to Ripples
Continuous innovation
delivered on monthly basis
vs. 18-24 month upgrades
It is critical that you
understand what change
means, types of change
Clear, predictable and
reliable service change
communications is critical
Deliver new features and value
Build trust and compliance
Respond to customer feedback
through agile development
Continuous release cadence
Security comes first
Direct feedback
Minor & major updates
Evolving standards
Real-time information
Up-to-date, no patching
Common support issues
Insights to help manage change
Direct to customer communications
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Organizational readiness content
Functionality Updates
• OneDrive for Business storage increases
• Lync meeting improvements
• Office Mobile for iPhone
• OWA for iPhone and iPad
Platform Updates
• API change
• Deprecations
• System requirement change
One Year
• Auto-discovery
configuration
• DNS record change
Up to 12 Months
• Bug fix
• Performance enhancement
• Security updates
No Notice
Visit http://blogs.office.com/office365updates/
Current and previous version of Internet Explorer and Firefox
Current versions of Chrome and Safari
Web browser
Any Office client in mainstream support
Office client
Older clients
Office 365 won’t deliberately block connections
Existing features may operate differently and not work over time
New features may not be available
Office 365 will only offer security fixes. No code fixes.
US English Location: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-system-requirements.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/
Service Continuity by Design
Redundancy
Resiliency
Distributed Workloads
Physical redundancy
Active load balancing
Data redundancy
Recovery across “failure
domains” regularly tested
Distributed components
are more resilient
Functional redundancy
Most failures are contained
to a single service.
Service component isolation
Human intervention by
exception
Predictability and
Inspectability
Complexity avoidance
and graceful degradation
Automated recovery alerts
24x7 on-call engineer
Incident avoidance detailed
Standardized hardware
Log and tracing to avoid SI
Fully automated
deployment
On-call engineers are core
product group members
Rich forensics and monitoring
Built-in workload
management mechanisms
First and best content
Regional
Updated hourly
Status
Description
Investigating
Monitors have indicated a service anomaly and/or Microsoft has received reports of a potential
service incident. Microsoft is currently investigating.
Service Interruption
Microsoft has confirmed that normal services are being impacted. Microsoft is taking immediate
action to understand the cause of the failure and determine best course of action to restore service.
Service Degradation
Services are still active, but service responsiveness and/or delivery times may be slower than usual.
Microsoft is working to restore normal service responsiveness.
Restoring Service
Microsoft has isolated the likely cause of the incident and is in the process of restoring service
Extended Recovery
Services are restored and may be slower than usual
Service Restored
Normal system services have been restored
Additional Information
There is additional information provided
Normal Service
The service is healthy
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Provides tenant specific Office 365
service health and maintenance
information on the go
Available for Windows Phone, iOS
and Android devices
Ability to query a
tenant or permissioned
account and see
service health results
View the customers in which they have delegated admin privileges
Find, select and perform administrative tasks on behalf of their customers
View their customers’ Office 365 service health status and details
Create, edit and view service requests on behalf of their customers
Create trial, purchase offers and delegated administration requests
Our communications philosophy
The various communication types and channels
What happens when there is change or a service incident
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