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For over 10 years we've used the steps below to help hundreds of businesses large and small migrate to Office 365. We've found this specific process to be most helpful for small and mid-sized businesses.
SEATTLE, June 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For over 10 years we've used the steps below to help hundreds of businesses large and small migrate to Office 365. We've found this specific process to be most helpful for small and mid-sized businesses.
Step 1: Understand your business goals
When thinking about the move off of a file server to the cloud it is important to understand your goals. Many businesses move for multiple reasons, in some cases the server is old and replacing does not make financial sense, or end-users need to access files outside of the office, share files with customers, or if your company is in the process of transformation and would like to automate processes and ensure compliance. Whatever your motivation, understand the goals and this will help drive your migration to completion.
- Most common reasons our customers decide to move off of a file server and migrate to Office 365
- Tired of connecting to a VPN to get access to important PST (personal storage) file
- No desire to upgrade from on premise to the cloud.Sharing and collaborating on existing files is not ideal
- Unable to work on a document if someone else has it open
- You want to reduce the number of duplicate files
- Searching for old PST files is difficult and time consuming
- Unable to get access to files from other devices (mobile, tablet, etc…)
Step 2: Create a Plan
The migration to Office 365 plan should consider your company needs for file security, sharing, and retention. Also, if you do not already have Microsoft Office 365 in place for your organization, you will need to architect the site(s).
To define your plan take a look at your existing file servers and talk with your employees/co-workers about where they store files, public folders, csv files, email data, user accounts (Active Directory), and how they are used.
Here are a few things to consider with your team internally:
- Is this current method (on-premise) ideal?
- What improvements would they make?
- Also, understand what Office 365 is capable of and review the limitations
- The file type, name, length, size restrictions that you should make yourself familiar with
- Then clean-up files based on what makes the most sense to your business.
For example, files that are critical to your business and should be kept "forever", rename files, files that can be deleted today or sometime in the future.
By answering these questions, you'll help inform how you create and configure sites and libraries within Office 365 and ultimately host your files.
- Where do they store files?
- How are these files used?
- Is this current method ideal?
- What improvements would they make?
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