Businesses have been utilizing Microsoft Office Suite as the core software for a very long time. With technological advancements and evolving business needs, Microsoft has created a newer version Of the traditional Microsoft Office Suite known as Office 365. The Office 365 Suite is a subscription-based offering, which means that businesses pay a monthly fee to use it. Businesses can create a custom package of the suite, by choosing the applications that they require, meaning that they only end up paying for what they use.
Looking at these added features, businesses have been migrating to the Office 365 Bundle. Businesses have been using Tenant To Tenant Migration services to move all their data safely and securely to the Office 365 Bundle. The migrations processes are not easy as it includes all the business files and information, which if lost or failed to recover can be very bad for the business. Below are the pre-planning tips for the tenant to tenant migration process:
Data Determination
It is important for businesses to determine the amount of data that they have. After getting the basic idea of how much data they have, Businesses must generate and create a list of what data is important to them. This process is just like moving to a new house, so it is important to get all the important data and leave the unwanted data back. This will also help them save storage on the new tenant. Businesses must consider these questions:
- What data is needed in the new tenant?
- Is any data being moved for legal or regulatory compliance purposes?
- Which important data should be moved to the cloud-first?
- Is this data needed? does it play a part in day-to-day businesses activities?
When businesses ask these questions to themselves, they will get the answers themselves and execute the migration process efficiently and successfully.
Note Down the Unsupported Application or the End-of-life Data
Businesses must record all the applications and objects from the source tenant. After the migration or during the migration process, if the application fails to migrate, they would know that it was unsupported, rather than troubleshooting it and spending time over it which would reap nothing but wastage of time. Businesses can refer to the timeline documentation provided by Microsoft, as it provides the list of all its products with end-of-life information. Also, businesses can review all the data and applications in the pre-migration stage and skip that application if not supported, saving them time. Businesses can utilize SharePoint Migration Services for the data migration from one tenant to another.
Check For Throttling during Migration Process
As the Microsoft 365 service is managed and taken care of by Microsoft themselves, the main objective is to ensure that their system is running healthily so that it does not cause a disruption or lag to the end-users. Microsoft has also applied limits on the background applications during the daytime on the working days to avoid this. The best way to avoid any throttling is to carry out the migration process during the off-hours as the service can process quite higher requests during that time.
As you see, these are some of the pre-planning tips that will help businesses plan and carry out an efficient Tenant to Tenant Migration process. Apps4Rent provides cloud computing solutions such as Cloud Windows Desktop with top-notch security and regular maintenance.
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