Assessing your Office 365 readiness

One of the big advantages of cloud-based services such as Office 365 is that they can be updated at any time. Microsoft has certainly demonstrated this with the Office 365 assessment and readiness tools; the goal of these tools is to help you determine what you need to do to deploy Office 365 successfully in whatever configuration makes sense for your business.

The basic process of readiness assessment is simple: you sign up for a trial of the service, and then you run a set of web-based Microsoft tools that interview you about your business requirements, point out limitations and capabilities of the service, and coach you through the setup process. As Microsoft gets more experience with cloud deployments and ...

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