Like all migration projects, planning is paramount, and it starts with taking a health check of your source environment in addition to an inventory. Understanding what your organization uses in Google Workspace will help craft your migration approach. In most cases, organizations want to “lift and shift” their data to avoid any loss. Some organizations will opt to migrate only the most critical data, such as e-mail and cloud file storage, allowing themselves to build their new solution from the ground up to suit their needs. Both approaches pose various challenges. Due to the differences in each platform’s handling of data, there is a risk of losing fidelity. Knowing and understanding the differences will help select the right approach for your organization. In turn, this will increase your level of success in your migration and help you communicate/set expectations with your end-user base.
In addition to mapping out and inventorying your migration source, planning your Microsoft 365 tenant deployment is a major factor in crafting a successful migration outcome. Microsoft offers a variety of features and capabilities in areas like email and collaboration, identity and data security, data loss prevention, endpoint management, and many more. Creating a good foundation in all those areas will enable a smooth migration of data and user transition.
Migrating between Google and Microsoft productivity suites will impact most, if not the entire organization. Think business workflows, collaboration, data structures, compliance, etc. if you have not yet mapped out and documented your business workflows, now is a great time. Knowing how your migration impacts business units and how your organization responds to change will drive the adoption of the new platform.
Our tip here is to take as much time as possible to review and plan your migration. As the saying goes, “measure seven times, cut once.” Understand your data, business impact of migration, source platform, destination platform, and the limits of each as it relates to your migration project. Come up with a playbook, testing, validation scenarios, and back-out plans for each phase of your migration. Learn more about benefits of migrating google workspace to Office 365
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Akshay
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