Exchange 2013 end of life – where to from here?
If you’re still using Exchange 2013, now is the time to start planning your exit strategy. Microsoft has announced that the now decade-old product will reach end of support on 11 April 2023.
Box migration – a world beyond OneDrive
As Microsoft 365 continues to trailblaze security, compliance and collaboration functionality, there is growing appetite from organisations to take better advantage of cloud solutions like OneDrive. OneDrive has become a perfectly viable, secure, collaborative storage alternative to popular third-party solutions
How compliance is driving Mimecast-to-Microsoft migrations
When Mimecast first arrived on the scene, it was a gamechanger for email security, content preservation and eDiscovery. Its capabilities were nearly matchless, offering enterprises much-needed control over, and insight into, the content they were storing. Since the onset of the
Unlocking the big-picture potential of a complex migration
If we could give only one piece of advice to every business considering a complex data and/or content migration into Microsoft 365, it would be this: Don’t lose sight of the forest for the trees. It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of seeing
Our top tips on Office 365 tenant migration tools
Using the right tools can make or break a tenant-to-tenant migration, but it’s difficult to predict what you’re going to need if you haven’t been down this road before. To help narrow your options, here’s our list of essential capabilities, and a few notes on areas
What should your tenant to tenant migration next steps look like?
Ideally, a tenant-to-tenant migration is planned well in advance and executed strategically to derive maximum value from the features and functionality deployed on the new tenant. Unfortunately, time is a scarce commodity during most tenant-to-tenant migrations and prioritising speed over
To partner or not to partner: the tenant-to-tenant migration question
One of the most important decisions organisations need to make heading into a tenant-to-tenant migration is whether to use a professional partner or to go it alone. It can be tempting to try to leverage existing IT skills to reduce overheads
Planning: the biggest cost saver for an Office 365 tenant migration
At Cloud Essentials, we’ve handled our fair share of Office 365 tenant migrations for everything from mid-sized enterprises to global giants taking on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and changes in business organisation. In all this time, we have yet to find
7 challenges of Office 365 tenant migrations
We all know that Office 365 tenant migrations, or migrating between other cloud platforms such as G Suite and hybrid environments is a big technical challenge, but there are hurdles of a less technical nature that will act as huge