Do Your Research
A main key to a successful migration is doing your research ahead of time. Researching what it offers can seem a bit overwhelming at first, but it is an important part of the process. When you understand all of the potential pros and cons, it can help you narrow down exactly what it is that you need and what you could do without. Research will give you a good idea of what everything will entail and how to make the actual migration. One of the things that you should do is compare Office 365 to other setups, pricing, and packages.
Make Decisions
Once you’ve done your research, it’s time to make some important decisions about the migration process. These decisions are irreversible, so proceed with caution. Some of the main decisions include pre-deployment decisions, the number of tenants to use, and password synchronization. You will have to decide on which subscription to purchase. Then you will need to decide if you should use a single tenant or multiple tenants. When it comes to managing identities, you have a couple options to choose from.
Create a Management Plan
The main focus of your management plan is to keep deployment up and running, and everything running smoothly at all times. Work on things like keeping spam to a minimum, speeding up your mailbox migration, connecting to PowerShell, managing identities, and setting up archive mailboxes.
You may notice an increase in spam after migrating to Office 365. There are a couple ways that you can configure how you control it based on the size of your organization and the number of end users that you have. You have a few different ways to troubleshoot slow mailboxes, which are based on your region and the specific problem that you are dealing with.
PowerShell is vital in Office 365 and gives you control for automating the way you manage your resources. There are several steps and points associated with the installation process of managing your identities. You will need to set up archive mailboxes for performance and recovery reasons.
