The internet is filled with some useful and some very un-useful
documents and blogs around how best to move to Office 365 and what you should bear
in mind. This post should provide you with some key tips around the deployment
and some resources I’ve used when deploying and supporting some customers of
mine.
Moving the data –
The hard part, right? Moving the gigabytes and gigabytes of
data you have is never going to be simple but there are some solutions.
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Migration tools
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SkyKick https://www.skykick.com/
: Automatic migration tool available to partners only so get in touch with a
Microsoft partner: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-
GB/companies/search?q=office%20365&fcrc=GBR
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Migration Wiz https://www.migrationwiz.com/ :
connect this tool with your environment and watch the data move across (costly
but effective).
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Office 365 Migration tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852447.aspx
: A tool that can do the job, but that’s about it.
After the data is moved the rest is easy, well that’s what
Microsoft say. A useful article I used when deploying was the trustee TechNet
articles (wrote by the engineers that built the product – who better, right?) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852429.aspx
I’m extremely intrigued to hear how people are getting on
with the migration, share your story and thoughts below.