Office 365 Migration Experts for Hire
The team have migrated 200+ companies successfully to Microsoft Office 365. Trust our qualified team to ensure your O365 migration project succeeds. You may be migrating SharePoint or Exchange.
Still using Exchange 2016/2019 in hybrid mode? Microsoft are ending support for these Exchange version in October 2025. We can help you prepare for Exchange SE (Subscription Edition).
We cover all the Microsoft 365 security settings. Ensure you maximize the Office 365 security features. Email security measures such as SPF, DKIM, DANE and DMARC block (reject) mode are recommended. For a second opinion on email security we recommend an email security expert.
Hire our Office 365 migration experts for your email project. Trust us to enable your business to fully realize the operational cost savings of using Microsoft Office 365. From your first contact, you will be dealing directly with an expert O365 migration consultant.
SharePoint and messaging are core applications for any business. Therefore, use our consulting services to expertly transition safely to Microsoft Office 365. Contact Us today to discuss your O365 email migration requirements.
Hire the best Office 365 migration expertise to help with your SharePoint migration project. Allow us to offer you a M365 Security Baseline review. Let us quote you on how to easily improve the default cyber security settings. For example, many organisations are looking to remove their last Exchange Servers and use Office 365 natively.
Microsoft O365 Email Migration Strategy and Coexistence
Microsoft, and their partners, make it easy to start using their Office 365 service for new mailboxes. However, you may run a company with 500+ mailboxes using another mail platform (Exchange 2016, IBM Domino, GroupWise, GoogleMail).
Thereafter, you will need help to develop a robust Email Migration Strategy, covering the risks, and your requirements. Exchange 2019 is coming to end of support in October 2025.
You may be looking to increase your ability to carry out email forensics. This can be done more easily with Office 365 Exchange Online. Do you need an email forensics expert? Allow us to recommend globalemailforensics.com. And they also have relevant email forensic blog articles to read.
Trusted O365 Migration Expert Consulting
Use our extensive experience in O365 email migration projects. Backed up by over 30 years in the IT industry, and coupled with University & Microsoft qualifications.
FAQs
Q: Why do I need an “Office365 migration expert” for my migration project?
A: Office365 migration project can go badly wrong if you do not use an expert. An expert is someone who has done the work many times before. Also providing guidance to ensure minimal mistakes are made.
Q: How many Office 365 migrations does it take to become an expert?
A: For our team, an Office 365 migration consultant must complete over 10 medium sized migrations to become an “expert”.
Recent Office 365 Migration Expert Blog Posts
December 17, 2024
We often get asked to help with email forensic work during an email migration project. Senior leadership may require a discrete email forensic investigation carried out. The other common request related to email forensic expertise, is to provide email SMTP expert witness services. The globalemailforensics.com website provides more in-depth coverage...
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December 12, 2024
As we close off 2024 it is a good time to remind ourselves when Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 support ends. Microsoft have a date of October 14th 2025 for support ending for both Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019. Microsoft recommend moving to the new Exchange version - Exchange Server...
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December 10, 2024
If you are running Exchange 2019 in your environment, including as part of an Exchange Hybrid setup, then you should be running the latest Exchange 2019 CU14 update. Exchange 2019 CU14 provides a number of important updates to Exchange 2019. You can download it here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=105878 Exchange 2019 CU14 Extended...
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December 10, 2024
TLS 1.3 was introduced back in August 2018. However, Exchange 2019 and Exchange Online do not currently support it. Windows 2022 has introduced support for TLS 1.3, but Exchange 2019 does not support it, so please do not try this as likely will cause issues for Exchange 2019. You need...
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December 10, 2024
DANE support with DSSEC for Inbound SMTP Exchange Online Microsoft now support the use of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to further secure inbound mail flow into Exchange Online. This is free for any Exchange Online licenced mailbox. Microsoft were going to only allow DANE support for E5 licenced mailboxes, but...
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January 9, 2024
DMARC is a free email authentication protection control that is used alongside SPF and DKIM. When used correctly it provides an effective security policy to help prevent malicious actors from impersonating your email addresses outside of your email system. There are increasing cyber threats against email systems, and any organization...
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January 8, 2024
Microsoft have made various announcements about removing the last Exchange Server from your Exchange Organisation if you have migrated all mailboxes (and mail functions) to Office 365. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/Exchange/manage-hybrid-exchange-recipients-with-management-tools This is in the context that you still have Active Directory and Azure AD Connect, with all user accounts still mastered in...
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January 8, 2024
We are often asked to migrate customers off GoDaddy hosted email to a new Microsoft Office 365 (O365) Tenant. GoDaddy is widely used by customers for hosted email, as that is where they have their DNS registration for their domain names. It is easy for a GoDaddy customer to sign...
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May 25, 2023
Microsoft released Exchange 2019 CU13 in May 2023. Anyone using Exchange 2019 is recommended to deploy this latest cumulative update. This is also known as the Exchange 2023 H1 update. The major feature for this release is support for Modern Authentication, with the intention to prevent the use of basic...
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May 23, 2023
If you are still using a hosted email service that is based on IMAP (or POP3) it is time to consider moving onto Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and benefit from the improved security. I have seen many customers on IMAP experiencing identity theft where user credentials have been gained, and...
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August 28, 2022
Proper use of the SPF and DKIM email authentication controls allows you to also enforce the DMARC control to significantly increase your email security posture. Adopting the desired DMARC reject mode allows you to help prevent external parties from sending spoof emails from your email domain to anyone else on...
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August 19, 2019
Introduction | GroupWise is Alive GroupWise to Office 365 migration project requests are still coming into my inbox. This is a surprise, as GroupWise keeps on dying each year. But then these requests keep on coming. GroupWise is dead, long live GroupWise.... maybe not, but you get the idea. See...
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August 11, 2019
Introduction - Office 365 Security Customers often migrate their email to MS Office 365 without considering the change in security landscape. Migrating to Office 365 offers the convenience of a cloud solution, but we recommend focusing on cloud security at the same time. Security aspects of MS Office 365 are...
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December 16, 2018
Introduction Recently I was asked to help a customer remove meetings from a staff member who had left. Their Office 365 mailbox had been deleted, but the request was to have that person's meetings removed from everyone else's calendars. Office 365 provide this function via the Exchange Online Azure Powershell...
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May 22, 2018
On a recent Google Gmail to Office 365 migration project I cam across a cool Gmail feature sometimes known as "throwaway addresses". I enjoy finding out new things related to email - and this was a good one! In Gmail if you had the address test123.person@gmail.com then it...
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April 18, 2018
Outlook Password Prompt Issue | Scenario Have you migrated to Office 365, and Outlook 2016 keeps asking for password and credentials? Are the repeated Outlook password prompts driving you insane? Is your confidence in Office 365 being eroded by the random attack of the Outlook password prompt? I recently completed...
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March 30, 2018
Introduction When configuring Outlook 2016 client for Office 365 be aware that you may not be able to do this through the Control Panel|Mail icon anymore. On a recent Exchange to Office 365 migration I was caught out by this “feature” change from Microsoft. On Outlook 2013 you could happily...
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January 19, 2018
Exchange 2019 migration might be required for various reasons. Exchange 2019 is the latest release of Microsoft's on-premise mail platform. It will be part of the Microsoft Office 2019 set of products. Exchange 2019 is going end of support in October 2025, with Exchange SE replacing it. Migration to Exchange...
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January 17, 2018
IBM have announced that the future of Domino is secure, for now. Through a partnership with HCL India, Domino will be developed beyond the current version 9, with Domino version 10 to be released in the near future. Read the IBM announcement here. There is the promise of new features,...
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October 20, 2017
This blog post describes how you can scan Office 365 user mailboxes, and remove appointments originally sent by a staff member who has left. Users can of course delete these themselves, but it is useful to be able to scan existing user mailboxes, and silently remove these appointments/meetings. You need...
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