Scalability, availability and reliability of office 365

Scalability, Availability and Reliability of Office 365 SBASE TECHNOLOGIES

Nowadays most of the companies are choosing Office 365 because of the flexibility to mix and match plans to meet employee’s needs and requirements of their day to day work.

It became a great fit in IT companies; the calendaring capabilities and email make all the difference.

Shared calendaring for individuals and teams has become mandatory and employees can easily schedule meetings by viewing each other’s availability due to presence.

Users can get the ability to operate it from anywhere and can interact with anyone on the work without being limited to the specific area.

With the services of Office 365, users can enjoy the benefits of its scalability, availability, and reliability.

When migrate your business from a conventional system to Microsoft’s Office 365 consider some factors. It involves the amount of data that needed to be moved, the versions of exchange server and range of objects involved in the migration. These are the critical factors that may get effect while migrating the business. So, before initiating the migration process, it is necessary to do a thorough analysis on the business requirement.

There are various methods available to migrate a business from a conventional system to Office 365. It is necessary to understand the scope and issues of each method before migrating the business else it may off track the complete business. A business can move to office 365 with the help of any one of the following migration method.

Cut over Migration: Cutover migration is considered has the best method for businesses with less than 2000 mailboxes.

It is the easiest and simplest method to migrate all your mailboxes, mail groups, users and contacts in one go. Most importantly, the method is suitable for the organizations that are running Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013.

On the flip side, the major disadvantage of the migration is that it might take too many days to complete the process. So it makes sense to use staged migration if the organization needs the migration process to complete in stages.

Staged Migration: Staged Migration is another method of migration that is available for small organizations to migrate their businesses to office 365.

This method is more worthy for businesses with less than 2000 mailboxes and running Exchange servers like 2003 and 2007. With staged migration, there will be a chance for little disturbances in service because users can no more receive emails from older exchange email server. If it runs later versions of Exchange servers such as 2010 or 2013 then it’s suggested to use hybrid migration method.

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