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What are the best Office 365 licenses for my business? This is a tricky question. The great thing is that one size doesn’t fit all, and you can mix and match. We work with clients all the time on identifying what is the actual appropriate licenses for the services that the user uses. There’s no

Will all of my data be migrated? That depends on the type of migration that you choose. For email data, talking about Office 365 and moving within an exchange server and a hybrid, we can move with zero and no data loss. With third-party tools, it depends on how you select your migration method. Are

Can migrations be performed with zero or no downtime? The short answer to that is yes. The long answer is that there are a lot of variables that come into that. If we’re talking about using a hybrid migration, I can guarantee that there is zero or no downtime. If we’re talking about using a

How much time does it take to migrate to Office 365? Like with coming up with the cost of migration, there are a lot of variables that come into the migration time. The amount of mailboxes that we’re moving, the amount of data that is consumed by those mailboxes, the internet bandwidth that is

First question we get asked a lot is what does it cost to move to Office 365? There are a lot of variables that come into that question. The biggest is, how comfortable are you with disruption to your end users? Because that can be the least cost effective but also the most disruptive to your end

I get asked all the time by clients about moving to Office 365 and recommendations on what they can do to have a successful migration. To have a successful migration to Office 365, there is a typical deployment phase, our assessment, our planning, our preparing, then the actual migration phase and

I get asked all the time about what tools are out there for migrating to Office 365, which is what I tend to leverage. Because if we’re moving from an exchange system that’s going to make the most seamless migration for your end users with the least amount of disruption. But a lot of times we are

Despite unveiling Microsoft 365 way back in 2017, there is still confusion in the marketplace around the differences between Microsoft 365 and Office 365.  Have no fear dear reader, Big Green IT is here to set the record straight. Apples & Oranges Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are not the same