Office 365 Migration Strategy
The solution
As they have for numerous enterprise projects in the past, BCPS turned to Data Networks. As a Microsoft Cloud Productivity Partner as well as an authorized QuadroTech reselling partner, the company’s consultants have implemented the software extensively and offer significant configuration expertise in Microsoft Cloud Technologies.
Quickly, Data Networks formed a small team of QuadroTech subjectmatter experts on site at BCPS. “Our systems engineers work hard to stay on top of the latest advances in our partner platforms such as QuadroTech,” says Todd Rechen, Data Networks Senior Engineer. “This helps us stay responsive to our clients’ needs, regardless of the timeline.” After assessing the progress that had been made to date, Data Networks consultants performed all of the following with the assistance of BCPS to complete the archive migration from Symantec Enterprise Vault to Office 365:
- Selected a small sample of user mailboxes and utilized them to test the migration of archives in accordance with the different email filter configurations
- Validated that all archive email data inserted into Office 365 matched original data from Symantec Enterprise Vault
- Conducted all remaining user mailbox archive migrations based on a detailed BCPS-provided schedule
- Shared final knowledge and lessons learned with BCPS IT staff members on how to maintain email archiving from Office 365 using QuadroTech software
Mission accomplished
Since Office 365 and specifically Data Networks’ QuadroTech solution has been in place at BCPS, the school district has observed tremendous performance and user convenience benefits.
According to Thompson, “We’re very satisfied with our results thanks to the Data Networks team. Both Office 365 for daily office productivity and QuadroTech archiving to the cloud are consistently at virtually 100% uptime. In addition, the new architecture which Data Networks helped us configure properly proved reliable right from the start.”
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