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This might be one for @jamesbmarshall as I'm not sure how many places are using SharePoint on Office 365 at present? We're currently developing an Intranet based on SharePoint Online within Office 365. Thus far we have noticed it can be a bit sluggish so trying to tweak it as much as possible before going live. One thing I wonder that may help is increasing the Server Resource Quota allocated to the site (currently on the default of 300). There's not much documentation on exactly how this works - is it used as a ratio within your tenancy e.g. if there's two sites with the same quota does that split available resources 50:50 or is it a case of the more resources you throw at it the faster it gets? We've got 10,000+ users provisioned so the number of resources available is also pretty large, just wondering if there's a guide to how much you need and how much it impacts on performance? Should we just assign all available resources to the site now then carve it up as we create more site collections or is there an argument for keeping the number at a reasonable limit? We do have custom sandboxed code deployed on the front page (live calendar, events etc.) which I believe is what the resources relate to, which might affect the choices above. Any info much appreciated.

I know the process, been following it since 2010 Are you running any of it in Azure? More of the worry is bringing reliance back to your in-house servers to handle authentication to O365. Quite a bit of additional risk for what's a fairly minimal gain (e.g. Outlook doesn't SSO)

@jamesbmarshall I'd be inclined to agree if we weren't going head-on into SharePoint and need some form of desktop SSO functionality. Although passwords are the same multiple logon screens really do annoy users, especially for something like an Intranet page that people load up regularly. We're currently trying out a couple of third party alternatives as the whole ADFS setup seems to be a bit overcomplicated (and more potential for service disruption) just to get an AD password to load up an Office 365 page. Seems there's a gap in the market for some sort of desktop app that can take a Windows password hash on logon and auto-fill the Office 365 credential screen with the same details. Whether it's technically feasible I'm not sure but somehow feels like it could be possible. There's also the great Windows 10-shape hope on the horizon that might finally be able to tie everything together if the (hastily deleted) blog post that came out a week or so back from Microsoft Germany is correct

It definitely can, have to use PowerShell and users changing password via the GUI still seem to get a complexity requirement. However it does let you sync and \ or create simpler initial passwords, which can be useful in some situations. If you're putting DirSync in after already manually provisioning accounts on O365 be careful as we were warned in some scenarios you could end up deleting existing accounts. Here's the link we were given: How to Map OnPrem Active Directory users to existing Office365 Users « Software Development and Infrastructure in the Cloud Also when you first put it in set the deletion threshold down to 1 (or something similarly low) so that way if bad things start happening you'll catch it before any damage gets done. Finally, think about whether the benefits from ADFS are worth the extra complexity and element of risk (if you lose your on-prem servers you lose ability to sign into O365 etc.)

Gains in terms of storage (50GB mailbox means you can effectively forget about quotas). Lose some abilities around controlling your own policies around archiving and backup, you'll need to decide what's provided on the free plan is sufficient for your organisational requirements around retention and so on. Make sure you test thoroughly before putting it out to staff, especially if using the Outlook client (which should be Office 2013 for the smoothest experience). See our experiences for more detail (we went from a legacy email product but the Outlook \ 365 info is very relevant) Cloud stories: Groupwise to Office 365 (part 1) | gshaw0 Cloud stories: Groupwise to Office 365 (part 2) | gshaw0

We're putting our Intranet on there and thus far it has seemed laggy and randomly bits seem to break e.g. the other day all the top navigation and similar UI controls stopped working for no apparent reason. You also need to watch out for mandatory restrictions MS have put on there as well, for example I'm trying to use Audience Targeting for staff-specific content but the lists only get recalculated once a week which is ridiculous. You gain on one hand as there's none of the worries about setting up a server farm and keeping it running but it seems SharePoint Online isn't as mature as a cloud product in comparison to Exchange Online (where control and feature set seems to be much more complete).

We put Unifi Pros in for an external customer recently and it's been spot on, was the only solution that came in anywhere near their budget as well. Definitely worth the extra £££ to get the Gigabit connectivity etc. on the Pro version.

Looks like we'll have to wait until the next release of the preview for it, was rather disappointed when the Windows 8.x first run wizard appeared with only a Microsoft Account option

MS must've been reading my mind or blog as the improvements to the sign in options and Store are exactly what I wrote about a few months back

BeOS was awesome, used to run it on my firsy Pentium 166 PC and the speed of it was incredible

The problem is that although the design and logic are now correct this release needed to come out two years ago and in effect 10 is a smoothed out version of 8.1 rather than being groundbreaking. Definitely evolution over revolution this time, although I'm expecting more features to be added between now and next milestone release. What 10 really shows is what a mess the previous bunch made of the Windows 8 release. How Ballmer, Sinofsky & co thought their half baked, restricted choice vision was fit for market I'll never know.

Has anyone put it on a tablet yet?

Installing on my Lenovo laptop atm, setup process is same as Windows 8 thus far

About 8 minutes to go on mine

I'd be up for the working group as well

Waiting to see if there's an Office 365 login option, need that badly as setting up Windows tablets at the moment is painful. Heard it mentioned but haven't got the patience to sit through a 40 minute video to find out Hurry up and release that Tech Preview Microsoft!

All staff (1000 mailboxes) on Office 365 for email using Outlook desktop client All students provisioned (10000) and Student Advantage enabled Staff Intranet on SharePoint being launched in a couple of weeks All users synced from AD using Azure DirSync OneDrive not being used much at the moment, mainly down to how poorly the desktop client is implemented within Windows (60 / 120GB SSDs with fully synced OneDrive libraries is asking for trouble). Until MS sort that out with either Windows 10 or Office 2015 we're not going to be pushing it that much. It's better on BYOD devices but students are mainly still using networked PCs as it stands.

I'll be signing up on that tomorrow then

Wonder if winver will still show it as 6.x though

Cheap and nasty ones (usually with thin, flimsy cable) can give really poor image quality on longer runs - ghosting and timing off with the image sitting off the edge of the screen and so on.

College promo video with a key message on an overlay (e.g. instructions for reception) plus a news ticker along the bottom. At regular intervals that switches to a key announcement \ college event advertisement \ student information. Also does live TV in our student recreational areas.

If it integrates Office 365 accounts into the OS we'll be very interested, especially for mobile users

I do like the live tiles for news, social media etc. as a first point of contact on boot and having run 8.1 on desktop for a while kinda got used to it now. That said given the difficulties it could cause going back to desktop mode wouldn't be a problem, the jump lists would be worth the change! Funny enough the only Modern UI app I find worthwhile is OneNote and that works best full screen

It's took two years and a couple of failed releases but MS have finally figures out the blindingly obvious and given people choice to use the OS as they want rather than as they're told. In an ideal world I prefer the Start Screen on boot but then the Start Menu once in desktop mode, although can see why that needs to be a choice in order to keep consistency.

Don't know about the cloud-based version but Sophos and impressed are two words that have never gone together in my experience