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FIGURE 18-6:
The main landing page of the Office Support site.
Choosing a Partner
Throughout the chapter, we cover planning and preparing for an Office 365 imple- mentation. As noted, the process isn’t linear but is iterative. For example, you don’t plan and then stop planning and move into preparing, and then stop pre- paring and move into migration. Instead, it is an iterative process in that you know what you know at the time and you will know more later on down the road. Luckily, if you use a partner, that partner will have been through this iterative cycle many times with other customers and can make the process much easier than undertaking the process on your own.
Microsoft provides the ability to find a partner on their Office 365 product page. Simply navigate to https://partner.microsoft.com, then type Office 365 into the search link about halfway down the page. The results will show you informa- tion about the partners and reviews for each partner, as shown in Figure 18-7.
Reading the reviews and doing your homework can pay huge dividends when it comes time to implementing Office 365. An experienced partner can make the process seem like a dream, whereas an inexperienced partner can taint your view of the Office 365 product forever.
You can save money by bundling Office 365 with other products such as Windows 10 licensing. Microsoft calls this Microsoft 365. If you use a partner, or even if you don’t, make sure you look into Microsoft 365.
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