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Agenda • Internet Explorer 11 is retiring
• IE mode extends the life of your legacy apps
• Microsoft Scope – Advisory Service
• Out of scope
• Delivery Approach
• Workshop Timeslots
• Escalation Matrix
• Engagement Success Criteria
• Next Steps
Where are you in our transition journey ?

1 2 3 4

Discovery of IE Consulting Support for User Rollout Plan Complete transition to

Retirement Impact Configuring IE mode Microsoft Edge
on Organization
Provide guidance to Consult to disable IE
Understand impact Deliver 2 workshops policy
rollout IE mode change
of IE retirement on which provide guidance to a pilot group.
customer on how Edge browser Enable IE mode for
environment. can work in IE validation to pilot users.
compatibility mode If everything is working
as expected, deploy it for
the remaining users.
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Internet Explorer 11 is retiring, start your transition plan

August 17, 2021 June 15, 2022 2029

Select Microsoft apps and IE11 desktop application retires IE mode will be supported
services will no longer at least through 2029
support IE11

For more info, read the announcement and the FAQ.

IE mode extends the life of your legacy apps
Only Microsoft Edge has a dual engine advantage enabling compatibility with
legacy IE sites through IE mode and modern sites with Chromium.

Migrating from IE11 to Microsoft Edge with Get at least eight more years out of your
IE mode helps your organization: IE11 legacy apps and sites:

Increase compatibility Retain value 2022 2029

IE mode will continue to be supported at

least through 2029
Streamline productivity Increase security Microsoft Edge and Search Estimator
Microsoft Scope – Advisory
Service
 Microsoft Scope – Step 1 Discovery of IE Retirement Impact on
Organization

Component Scope Customer responsibilities

Customer  Understand impact of IE retirement on customer  List of IE dependent sites

kick-off environment  Reporting on IE usage

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 Microsoft Scope – Step 2 Consulting Support for Configuring IE
mode
Component
Edge IE compatibility Setup
workshops
Post workshop activities
Guidance on QA testing of
Edge IE compatibility
General guidance
Coordination assistance with
App Assure Team
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Scope
 Deliver 2 workshops which provide guidance
on how Edge browser can work in IE
compatibility mode
 Assess customer requirements and provide
implementation design for setting up Edge in
IE compatibility mode
 Regular check-ins (bi-weekly, monthly)
 Provide consultative guidance on testing
Edge browser in IE compatibility mode
 Provide guidance on IE restriction rollout
 Provide general guidance on IE restrictions
 Provide coordination assistance with App
Assure in areas where additional support is
deemed required
Customer responsibilities
 Ensure participation of right stakeholders in the meeting.
 Provide requirements that will drive design decisions.
 It is customers responsibility to disseminate the
information to internal stakeholders within their
organization
• Commit to building a timeline and milestones for
reviewing sites with compatibility issues
 Provide lab environment where such testing can be
performed by the customer team
 The information and guidance provided by the team is
disseminated to all other stakeholders within the
customer organization for subsequent action
 Document the ask that necessitates coordination with
App Assure
 Once the contact is provided the customer will take over
the conversation with App Assure for further
troubleshooting
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 Microsoft Scope – Step 3 User Rollout Plan

Component Scope Customer responsibilities

Consult customer on rollout of IE  Provide guidance to the customer to rollout IE  Identify Pilot user group
mode Microsoft Edge mode change to a pilot group  Implement Pilot rollout based on guidance
 Weekly check-in with the customer on status of  Report status of Pilot rollout
pilot rollout  After pilot, customer will initiate full rollout

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 Microsoft Scope – Step 4 Complete your transition to Microsoft
Edge

Component Scope Customer responsibilities

Engagement Closeout  Consult to disable IE policy  Collaborate with MCS to identify and agree
 Consult customer on final steps to be ready upon closeout status
for IE retirement.

 Customer confirms organization is ready for

IE retirement

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 Areas Out of Scope for Microsoft
Area Description
Product licenses and Product licenses (Microsoft or non-Microsoft) and cloud service subscriptions are not included, unless otherwise
subscriptions stated.
Product bugs Product upgrades, bugs, and design change requests for Microsoft products
and upgrades
Deployment of Edge Deployment of Edge browser across user base is not included in the service but FastTrack assistance is available to
browser assist, and we recommend this step before working on IE retirement plans.
Admin actions or Making administrative changes in the customer's environment on behalf of the customer.
implementation
Identification of legacy Identification of legacy websites used by the customer that work only IE 11 is not included in the service. Processes to
websites identify sites outside of the recommended site discovery process is out of scope.
Test environment setup Creation of a development or test lab environment for testing is not included.

Testing Consulting for testing in a pre-production or lab environment is in scope. Testing of legacy websites in IE
compatibility mode is not included, Microsoft consultants can refer to existing tools.
Coding Creating or editing code to help modernize IE dependent applications
Remediation Fixing any issues found in legacy websites that do not work as expected in IE compatibility mode of Edge browser is
not included. Microsoft consultants will refer customers to engage with App Assure.
User communications Microsoft will not manage any direct user communications associated with the engagement.

Training Formal in-class user training related to products or technology that includes workshops, classrooms, and training
materials, unless explicitly listed as in scope in the Areas in scope section.
Public-facing IE sites Such as Yahoo.com / msn.com/ amazon.com
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 Delivery Approach

• We will formalize this plan and baseline it after collaboration with you.

IE Disablement Complete

Complete workshops Pilot Complete Rollout Complete Engagement Closure

Week 1 2 3 4
Day 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 2022

Customer contact established

Initiation
Schedule kickoff call

Kickoff
3 days Workshops
Sandbox Testing
Execution
5 days Pilot Rollout
5 days Full Rollout
Consulting
20 days
Guidance

Disable IE
Closure
5 days Closeout Activities

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 Escalation Matrix

Microsoft Escalation Path

• Project Manager : Srinivas Reddy (v-sranreddy@microsoft.com)

• Area Lead : Veda Prakash (vedap@microsoft.com)
• Program Lead : Adarsh Umapathy (adumapat@microsoft.com)

Customer Escalation Path

• Project Manager :

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 Engagement Success Criteria

Engagement Success Criteria

• Microsoft Delivered guidance on setting IE mode

• Customer confirms organization is ready for IE retirement

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Next steps

Configure IE Mode

User Rollout

Transition to Microsoft Edge

 Workshop Timeslot

Workshop Name Customer to provide Date

and Time slot
Edge IE compatibility Setup Workshop 1 <<within same week>>
Edge IE compatibility Setup Workshop 2 <<within same week>>

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