4 Things You Need To Prepare

Transferring to a new environment is not an easy task. Whether you’re doing it to provide better business tools for your users or undergoing a merger, migrating to Office 365 may present challenges that can affect your company negatively if not done correctly.

Since migration is not something businesses do regularly, many companies might not know where to begin. That’s where this planning and migration guide will assist speed up the process and guide you through a safe and accurate migration. With that, here are 4 things you need to prepare as you get ready for the big move.

Your Migration Solution

A big chunk of the migration project’s success boils down to the ability of your migration tool to meet your migration needs. As you plan, it’s essential to understand what these requirements are and what tools can help you achieve them. While you can count on some of Microsoft’s native migrator tools for basic migration projects, there are various factors to account for big and complex migrations, which makes third-party migration solutions a far better choice to consider. With the help of the migration service, you will be easily able to access all the data on your Hosted Virtual Desktop from any place and at any time.

Office 365 Licenses and Subscriptions

Of course, preparing your new Office 365 environment is required before undergoing your migration. Office 365 is a complex environment with different licenses and subscriptions to understand. There’s a need not only to establish the business tools required by your whole organization for your general business processes but also to enforce the access needed by your users to take advantage of these business tools. Any complexity in the process creates confusion over the subscriptions and licenses needed to allocate business users, which is where taking the benefit of third-party license management tools can be beneficial for understanding and managing your MS Office 365 licenses.

Migration Reports

Office 365 Migration reports not only help to visualize the progress of your migration, but they even bridge a way for you to provide solid evidence of your efforts to your business stakeholders. Migration reports typically have 2 dimensions i.e., Pre-migration reports and Project-level reports.

In the most basic sense, migration reports help you avoid failing by letting you zoom in on what you particularly need based on the type of migration you’re undergoing.

While generally crucial, this is especially helpful for those who are building an internal Office 365 hybrid migration plan or Cutover migration plan, as they’re more likely to encounter challenges due to the complexity and risks of their migration type.

Office 365 Data Protection Solutions

Once you’re in your new environment, you’re not done yet. Moving forward is now perhaps more difficult than moving over. With the overwhelming trends of cloud risks, it is now a center business need to protect your data and environment. There are various solutions like a Backup solution, Data governance solutions, and Office 365 management tools that help you to get safely operating in the cloud. Whether you decide to deploy all or some, always consider the most important business processes you need to protect, and how capable you are in doing so.

Conclusion

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