Microsoft 365

Move to Microsoft 365 without losing a message

Business email on your own domain, plus Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Set up correctly the first time, or migrated off Google Workspace and legacy systems.

  • Nothing gets lost. Mail, calendars, and contacts move across intact, and we verify it.
  • Email keeps arriving. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured so your mail reaches inboxes.
  • Secure by default. Multi-factor authentication and sensible policy from day one.
  • Cut over on your schedule. Migrations planned around your week, not ours.

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The work

What the migration covers

A migration is mostly preparation. The move itself is the short part, and it goes badly almost exclusively when the preparation was skipped.

Mail, calendar, contacts

Moved from Google Workspace, an old Exchange server, or whatever you are on now, with history intact.

Files and collaboration

SharePoint and OneDrive structured deliberately, so shared files have an owner and a home.

Authentication and security

MFA enforced, email authentication configured, and access policies that do not fight your team.

Teams and telephony

Teams set up as somewhere people actually work rather than another place to lose messages: channels that match how your business is organized, and calling built in where it makes sense. Teams can carry your phone calls too, which ties into business phone systems.

Licensing, right sized

Microsoft sells a lot of overlapping plans and most businesses are on the wrong one. We work out what you are actually entitled to, which features you are already paying for and not using, and where a different plan costs less for more.

Tenant hygiene

Shared mailboxes instead of licensed accounts for departed staff, distribution lists that reflect who works here now, and licenses reclaimed when people leave. This is the unglamorous work that quietly saves money every month.

In practice

What a migration actually looks like

People imagine a weekend of chaos. Done properly it is closer to a week of nothing much happening, followed by an hour that matters.

Before we touch anything

We inventory what exists: mailbox sizes, shared mailboxes, distribution lists, calendars, aliases, forwarding rules, and the things nobody remembers set up. We also drop your DNS timings in advance so the cutover is quick rather than slow.

The copy runs quietly

Mail, calendars, and contacts sync to the new tenant in the background while everyone carries on using the old system. Nothing changes for your team and nothing is at risk, because the source is untouched.

The cutover

One short window where mail delivery is pointed at the new system, usually outside working hours. A final catch up sync collects anything that arrived in the meantime, so nothing falls into the gap.

Afterwards

We verify mail is flowing in and out, that authentication passes, and that people can reach their history. The old system stays available read only for a period rather than being switched off the same day.

Questions

Before you ask

Will we have email downtime?

No. Migrations are staged so mail keeps flowing throughout, with the final cutover scheduled at a low traffic time.

What happens to our old email?

It comes with you. Historical mail, calendars, and contacts are migrated, not left behind on the old system.

Can we keep our current domain?

Yes, and you should. Business email on your own domain is the point. We handle the DNS side of the move.

How long does the whole thing take?

For a typical small business, one to three weeks from first conversation to cutover, and most of that is copying data in the background. The disruptive part is measured in hours, not days.

What about shared mailboxes and distribution lists?

They come across, and this is where do it yourself migrations usually come unstuck. Shared mailboxes, aliases, forwarding rules, and calendar permissions are easy to miss and immediately noticeable when they are wrong, so they get inventoried before the move rather than rediscovered after it.

Is our Microsoft 365 data backed up?

Not in the way most people assume. Microsoft guarantee the service is available, not that your data is recoverable, and their own agreement recommends third party backup. Deleted mail ages out and a compromised account can be emptied. See backup and disaster recovery.

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