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