Migrating to Office 365 is a rather tough job to accomplish. The key is to not take things lightly and plan well for any contingencies. In my years of experience as an IT administrator, what I’ve realized is that nothing beats extensive preparation. Let’s have a look at some of the things that you should focus on while considering to migrate to Office 365:
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Decide what to migrate
First and foremost, you must have a clear idea as to what to migrate to Office 365 and what not. It is very important that you make this assessment beforehand, that is, prior to start of the migration process. Once you’ve established what all data needs to be migrated, you can start the Office 365 migration process.
This helps eliminate unnecessary wastage of time and resources in moving otherwise unneeded data. You can remove the content that you deem unworthy or even archive it for future use and references – the choice is up to you, but do not avoid this step.
Start Preparing
Once you decided what to migrate, you are almost ready to start the process to migrate to Office 365. However, it would be wise to have a clear understanding of what you are committing yourself to before you initiate the leap. Moving to cloud has its own advantages and performance limitations, make sure you’ve gathered all the requisite information from reliable sources so that you understand clearly what you are getting into.
Once you have gathered all the information about the tools and other resources that you would have to rely on to accomplish the Office 365 migration process, the migration itself will be seamless. We also have a best practices for Office 365 migration guide which you might want to have a look at as it covers a lot of things not listed here.
This phase should also involve selecting the right team for migration and clearly devolving the functions and responsibility for every work group within the team. It is important to ensure that all stakeholders are informed of the migration strategy well in advance.
Test your strategy
Even for small and medium organizations, it is critical to have the migration plan thoroughly tested to ensure foolproof Office 365 migration.
Migrate a small part of the data based on the plans devised in previous phases. Observe and test the results. Make modifications to the migration strategy, if required, based on the test results.
Once the permissions, mapping, mail routing etc are thoroughly verified and vetted during the test phase, you can move on to the next phase and migrate to Office 365 by carrying out the actual migration.
Migrate to Office 365!!
This is it! We are in the final phase. It is in this phase that you get to execute your migration plans and carry out the actual Office 365 migration. Once migration is done, you will have to verify the results and work closely with team to ensure any necessary adjustments to data in the source environment is done as soon as possible.
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