We move email, files and servers into Microsoft 365 and Azure for New Zealand organisations, with the preparation beforehand that makes the move itself uneventful.
Almost every migration that goes badly went badly before anyone pressed anything. Permissions nobody had mapped, mailboxes larger than expected, a line of business application quietly depending on a server everyone forgot about.
We spend most of the effort up front, finding those things while they are still cheap to deal with. The cutover then tends to be the dull part, which is exactly what you want from it.
Into Microsoft 365 and Azure, or a mix of cloud and on-premises where that genuinely suits you better.
From Google Workspace, hosted Exchange, another Microsoft tenant or an on-premises server. Calendars, contacts and shared mailboxes included, not just the inbox.
Old shared drives into SharePoint and OneDrive with version history and access control intact, rather than folders tipped into the cloud and sorted out later.
Lift and shift into Azure, or a rebuild where the old server was holding something together that should not have been. We are honest about which is which.
Moving accounts into Entra ID with multi-factor authentication and conditional access in place from day one, so security improves through the migration rather than after it.
Where the move is a good moment to leave an old PBX behind, we can bring voice across at the same time.
A cloud tenant is not backed up by default. Protection is in place before the migration completes, not added later.
Five stages, and you will know which one you are in at any point.
What you have, where it lives, how big it is and what depends on it. This is where the surprises turn up, and it is much better that they turn up here.
Cleaning up data, mapping permissions, deciding structure and fixing what should not travel. The least visible stage and the one that decides the outcome.
A small group moves first, works normally for a week and tells us what feels wrong. Cheaper to learn on ten people than on two hundred.
Usually over a weekend. Data is pre-staged so the final sync is short, and someone is on hand Monday morning rather than back at their desk waiting for tickets.
The fortnight afterwards matters. Permissions get tuned, stragglers get found and people get shown the things that are now easier.
Short answers. Ask us for the longer ones.
No. Mail flows throughout. Data is pre-staged and synced ahead of the cutover, so the final switch is short and nothing sits in limbo waiting for it.
We map it before we move it. Some of it comes across as-is, some gets tidied where a structure has grown by accident over fifteen years. You decide which, with a recommendation from us.
Yes, and most of our migration clients do not have in-house IT. We handle the technical work and the communication to your team, which is usually the part people underestimate.
For a typical Microsoft 365 move, none during the week and a few hours over a weekend. Server migrations vary more, and we give you a realistic window rather than an optimistic one.
The useful first step is a look at what you have now: where the data sits, who has access, and what would need to happen before anything moved. No obligation to go anywhere with it.
