You can find many migration tools on the market. Some are lacking key features and have to be micro-managed manually. They might be good for a small business that can afford a “big bang” overnight user switch from one environment to another, and then experience a large number of HelpDesk calls the next day. More serious enterprise migration tools live in “Zero Impact” category when everything happens behind the scenes and remains unnoticed for an end user. Every single piece of user’s environment is accounted for and switched/moved to the new place:
-User account / identity
-Groups membership
-Computer account with the user profile
-Mailbox content, including Calendar Data, Contacts, Notes and more
-Calendar Availability across organizations
-Permissions inside Mailbox
-Outlook profile, which has so many pieces attached to it that often remain underestimated
-Other business workloads, such as: OneDrive / Teams / SharePoint and more
Not even the best migration tool on the market is going to cover every single business environment out of the box. This is where we come in. Experienced consultants will help to set up a product and architecture migration plan based on your specific business requirements. Should you try to do it yourself? No, simply because it will cost more in the long run and may result in the project being behind schedule or over budget. Unfortunately, this happens often, even with the large companies that have many skilled IT resources. This is because migration is a very rare skill set which is developed with years of pure migration exposure and not something that occurs during normal day-to-day IT operations in the company.
Another important aspect is knowledge of migration tools being utilized in the project. Our consultants have unparalleled knowledge and experience with the enterprise-level best migration tools on the market: Quest Software OnDemand Migration (AD and Email) and more. Assistance is provided throughout the entire project from start to finish.