Move digital assets like data, applications, and IT resources to the cloud!
Migrating on-premises servers to Microsoft 365 offers significant advantages, including reduced infrastructure costs, enhanced collaboration, and improved security. It eliminates the need for physical hardware, lowering expenses and simplifying IT management, while providing scalable, subscription-based pricing.
Employees gain access to tools like Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, enabling real-time collaboration and remote work. Microsoft 365 ensures robust security with advanced threat protection, compliance tools, and regular updates. By modernizing IT infrastructure, companies can future-proof their operations and align with the remote workplace trends, making Microsoft 365 a cost-effective and strategic choice.
Benefits
- No more VPN for remote working
- Easily access your data from anywhere
- Cost savings - short & long-term savings
- No more pricey server purchases every 5-7 years or expensive server backup
- Fully utilize the licenses you are already paying within Microsoft 365 and native applications included in the subscriptions
- Reliability
- Increase companywide efficiency
- Enhanced security
- Modernized workforce
Prerequisites
- Microsoft Business Premium licenses
- The functions your server provides your business can be migrated
- File sharing (SharePoint/Teams)
- Clean and organized data into three categories (Teams migration Excel template
- Migrating
- Archive
- Trash
- User and computer authentication/Active directory (Entra AD)
- Print Functions
- Hosted applications (Migrated to either Cloud Hosted, Web based versions, or removed completely)
- File sharing (SharePoint/Teams)
- Currently utilized Microsoft Teams or willing to start (Training)
- Workstation's have supported operating system and no "Home" version
Process
- Verify you can fully migrate your server to the Microsoft environment
- Ensure your data is ready to migrate to Teams/SharePoint
- Finalize your company's data structure in Teams and map where your current data will be migrated
- Establish a migration cut-over date
- End-user training on how to use Teams and access company data
- Client Portal training courses
- Prerecorded training videos
- Live Q&A training video call - We record this video and store it in your Teams for users to refer to
- Decommission and e-cycle your server(s)
