Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool for Exchange and Active Directory (ADFS)

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    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.

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    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

    Download @ (scroll to bottom for blue button) Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool beta - Download documents - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community View a Walkthrough Here: https://community.office365.com/en-us/b/the_grid/archive/2011/06/20/how-to-office-365-deployment-readiness-tool-released-grid-user-post.aspx