{"id":10984,"date":"2019-06-29T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2019-09-18T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:11:59","slug":"deploying-microsoft-365-enterprise-foundation-infrastructure-in-phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/deploying-microsoft-365-enterprise-foundation-infrastructure-in-phases\/","title":{"rendered":"Deploying Microsoft 365 Enterprise Foundation Infrastructure in Phases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you plan to deploy Microsoft 365 Enterprise, you should check out this article written by Microsoft&#8217;s Joe Davies: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/deployment-strategies-microsoft-365-enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft 365 Enterprise foundation infrastructure deployment strategies<\/a>. In his article, Joe talks about the following four deployment strategies in detail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serial deployment<\/li>\n<li>Parallel deployment with non-overlapping user rollout<\/li>\n<li>Parallel deployment with overlapping user rollout<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Up-front infrastructure and rollout of the end-to-end configuration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft recommends you start your deployment of Microsoft 365 Enterprise using the core (or foundation) deployment. The recommended end-to-end deployment includes the following six phases, which Joe and his Microsoft colleagues have documented in another article <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/deploy-foundation-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft 365 Enterprise foundation infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Phase 1<\/strong>: Networking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 2<\/strong>: Identity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 3<\/strong>: Windows 10 Enterprise<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 4<\/strong>: Office 365 ProPlus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 5<\/strong>: Mobile device management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 6<\/strong>: Information protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my experience, many small organizations don&#8217;t follow a strategy, they just randomly pick a feature (e.g. MDM) and then start deploying it without any systematic approach. Then before the first project is complete, they start implementing the second project. A better approach is to follow Microsoft&#8217;s recommendation and use the above 6 phases as a guideline. Microsoft points out the advantages of each phase in its <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/deployment-strategies-microsoft-365-enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>. There is nothing wrong with working on multiple projects simultaneously. In fact, Microsoft has two types of strategies for parallel deployment: non-overlapping and overlapping user rollout. The important thing to keep in mind is that everyone doesn&#8217;t need to use the exact same deployment strategy. You should use Microsoft&#8217;s recommendation as a guideline and customize it for your own needs. Whatever you do, just make sure you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a systematic approach<\/li>\n<li>Come up with a plan that incorporates all the users and all the devices<\/li>\n<li>Consider the impact of your plan on the users<\/li>\n<li>Ensure you have the resources and the budget to implement the plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use the following Microsoft 365 Enterprise foundation infrastructure poster for each phase. Each of the six icons in the PDF is hyperlinked to a separate article for each individual phase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/docs\/office365\/M365EnterpriseFoundInfraPoster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M365EntFoundInfraPoster.png\" alt=\"Microsoft 365 Enterprise Foundation Infrastructure Poster\" width=\"1179\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M365EntFoundInfraPoster.png 1179w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M365EntFoundInfraPoster-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M365EntFoundInfraPoster-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M365EntFoundInfraPoster-1024x791.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By using the deployment strategy recommended by Microsoft as a guideline, you will have much more control over your deployment and you will also keep your users and devices secure.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e3e3; text-align: left;\">Thanks for reading my article. If you are interested in IT training &amp; consulting services, please reach out to me. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZubairAlexander.com<\/a> for information on my professional background.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlepro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SeattlePro Enterprises, LLC<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you plan to deploy Microsoft 365 Enterprise, you should check out this article written by Microsoft&#8217;s Joe Davies: Microsoft 365 Enterprise foundation infrastructure deployment strategies. In his article, Joe talks about the following four deployment strategies in detail: Serial deployment Parallel deployment with non-overlapping user rollout Parallel deployment with overlapping user rollout Up-front infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,31,63,11,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-microsoft-office","category-office-365","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Office365_featured_250x250.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}