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Moving is the easy part
Copying data to the cloud is a weekend. Getting identity, permissions, licensing, backup and the applications that depend on them right is the actual project. Most migrations that go badly went badly in planning, not in transfer.
What cloud does and does not give you
The cloud removes hardware failure as your problem. It does not remove backup, access control or compliance as your problem. Those move with you, and a migration is the moment to get them right.
No more server refresh cycle
Capital replaced by a monthly cost, and hardware failure stops being an event you plan around.
Access from anywhere
Which also means access control matters far more than it did behind an office firewall.
Backup is still yours
Microsoft replicates infrastructure, not your mistakes. Deleted mail and files need their own backup.
Licensing needs managing
Unused and wrongly tiered licenses are the most common source of quiet overspend in a cloud tenant.
How a migration runs
01
Discover
Inventory every mailbox, share, application and dependency, including the ones nobody remembers until they break.
02
Design
Identity model, permissions, licensing and backup decided and documented before anything moves.
03
Pilot
A small group moves first. Problems get found on five users rather than fifty.
04
Cut over
Staged migration outside business hours, with the old environment kept intact until the new one is proven.
Planning a move, or already there and unsure it was done right?
Both are worth a conversation. A tenant review finds the licensing, backup and access gaps that migrations commonly leave behind.
