Tenant to tenant migrations & co-existence

When you need to migrate between Office 365 tenants (domains) moving data and users is just the tip of the iceberg, especially if you need multiple domains to co-exist seamlessly for any length of time.

• You need a mechanism for synchronising contacts and free/busy information to ensure co-workers can email and collaborate easily and communicate with clients throughout the migration – as though in a single domain.
• You may also need to consolidate the infrastructure of the merging organisations, starting with integrating the separate Active Directory (AD) instances into one.
• Not all of the organisations involved may be in the cloud – so there may be some complexity involved in integrating on-premises users and applications.

There’s other things to transfer across, including security, privacy, anti-spam and retention management settings. In fact, the amount of up-front planning involved to ensure a fault-free tenant migration can be daunting, with no ‘one size fits all’ third-party solution and no off-the-shelf solution from Microsoft.

Cloud Essentials combines best-of-breed solutions with expert services to assist with your tenant to tenant migrations, including Mailboxes, SharePoint & OneDrive, synchronisation and merging of infrastructure and the seamless switching of services such as email and Skype for Business.