Episode 18: SharePoint Hybrid with Matt McDermott

In this episode we have our first guest on the show!  Scott and Ben interview Matt McDermott about SharePoint hybrid.  You'll get an overview of the what exactly is SharePoint Hybrid and why you would want to do it.  Then we jump into what may be some deal breakers when it comes to deploying hybrid.  We also talk about how to get start configuring it and some of the "marketing hype" around SharePoint hybrid.  Finally we wrap up talking about how to decide which workloads to deploy and which ones are easy and others that may be a little harder.

Episode Guest: Matt McDermott

Matt's Blog
Reach out to Matt on Twitter
Matt on YouTube
Aptillon
Courses and Classes

Configuring Hybrid Workloads For SharePoint And Office 365 - Online Class
Upgrading Your Farm to SharePoint 2016 - Pluralsight Course
SharePoint 2013 Search Back To Front - Pluralsight Course

Show Notes:

SharePoint Hybrid

What are the big wins in Hybrid? Why do I care?

Reduced On-Prem Footprint
Better access from everywhere with all devices
Massive Scale
Access to cloud features

What are the deal breakers?

No User Sync - Episode 13 - Identity and Authentication in Office 365
Poor Performing Network - Network planning and performance tuning for Office 365
Poor Governance
Patch Level

What is the marketing hype?

Sites
Modern Attachments
Profile Redirect
B2B Extranet

What is easy and what is hard (or what can we do now and what requires planning)?

Easy - OneDrive, Sites
Harder - Taxonomy
Hard - Search