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Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool

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    Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool

    Office 365 Deployment Resource Kit 1.00.00.80 [Updated May 2012]

     Brief Description


    Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool

     

    File Name:                                                                           Size:

    Office365DeploymentReadinessTool.exe                          7,845 KB

     

     Overview


    The Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool provides analysis of your on-premises environment in preparation for an Office 365 enterprise deployment. The readiness tool is integrated with the guidance provided in the web edition of the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide

    Please provide your feedback to: O365DReskitFeedback@microsoft.com

    The following assessments are provided:

    • Domains
      • Email domain discovery and number of users leveraging each domain
    • User Identity and Account Provisioning
      • Statistical information
      • Active Directory schema and forest/domain functional data
      • Trusts extract (checks for multi-forest constraints)
      • Directory Synchronization
        • Pre-requisite checks
        • Attribute assessment
      • Single sign on
        • Attribute assessment
    • Exchange Online
      • Statistical information
      • Public folder, public delegates, and proxyaddresses extract
      • 3rd party and unified messaging proxyaddresses information
    • Lync Online
      • Statistical information
      • SIP domains summary 
    • SharePoint Online
      • User object count assessment
    • Client and End User Experience
      • Summary of domain joined machines for rich experience/SSO readiness
    • Network
      • Port analysis on certain Office 365 endpoints
      • DNS records assessment

     System Requirements  


      Operating Systems:

    • Windows XP RTM and above
    • Windows Vista RTM and above
    • Windows 7 RTM and above
    • Windows Server 2003/R2 RTM and above
    • Windows Server 2008/R2 RTM and above

      

    Note: The above operating systems have been verified to function in English only.  Other languages may have differing results and are not recommended.

     

      Web browsers:

    • Internet Explorer 7.0 and above
    • Firefox 4
    • Chrome 10
    • Safari 3.5

    Note: The above web browsers have been verified to function with the tool, other browsers and/or browser versions may have differing results and are not recommended. 

     Installation path:

    • Must be run from the c:\ drive
    • Cannot be run from other drive path or network drive
    • Installation path c:\office365reskit\
    • Hard drive space of min 1GB free 10GB suggested for large organizations with many domains/users

    Domain joined PC or server:

    • Domain joined machine connected to your corporate network is required

    Active Directory:

    • Active Directory is required 

    Forest considerations:

    • Run once for each forest in your organization

    Credentials:

    • No administrative rights required
    • Domain user

    Instructions:

    • Review and accept license terms
    • Download file (link below)
    • Save file to c:\ drive on computer
    • Extract the Office365DeploymentReadinessTool.exe from the download link
    • Double click on Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool .exe
    • Results will be provided shortly thereafter (the number of objects, number of domains, and number of issues discovered will determine the amount of time the tool will run).

     Other considerations:

    • Certain anti-virus programs (with real time scan enabled) reduce performance of the tool by scanning each read/write operation of the tmp and csv files (text files) created in the c:\office365reskit\tmp and c:\office365\do_not_modify directories.
      • Excluding the folders/files from real time scan may greatly increase performance
    • Consider running the tool during non-peak business hours
    • Recent PC or server (non-virtualized) generally provide the fastest results
    • Wired network connection suggested over wireless 

    Privacy Notice 


     

     The Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool:

    • Is intended for IT administrators. If you are an end-user, Microsoft recommends that you end this program and contact your IT administrator for assistance.

    • Collects data from your corporate network and stores the data in a folder (c:\office365reskit) that is located on the computer where you installed the tool.

    • Generates files on your installation computer that may contain personal data. Microsoft recommends that you remove these files when you have completed your assessment.

    • Does not send the collected data to Microsoft.

    • Does not require privileged or administrative credentials — nor should you grant administrative credentials.

       

    License Terms  


     

    Click here to review terms

     

    Previous version [released May 2012]:

           

     

    Latest version [preview released April 2013]:

     

    visit OnRamp for Office 365 

     

                                   

     

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  • There is a great blog post on how to use this tool here - community.office365.com/.../how-to-office-365-deployment-readiness-tool-released-grid-user-post.aspx

    Thanks,

    Josh T.

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