Office 365 Migration Planning Tool
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Office 365 Migration Planning: Analyze your On-premise infrastructure & Optimize your move to O365

Office 365 Migration planning tool provides you a complete pre migration checklist / inventory of your current infrastructure on premises in order to assist you with your planning for Office 365 migration. The migration planning tool covers the early stages of planning by walking the user through the following essential steps for Office 365 migration:

Visibility – The tool provides visibility into all Office 365 components of the current on-prem infrastructure such as Active Directory, Exchange, Office Applications, User groups and so on.

Inventory Analysis – The tool allows you to analyze all the data to understand what exactly needs to be migrated – such as users, applications, mailboxes, groups, Public folders and so on. You can decide what need not be included in migration thus saving you valuable licensing costs.

Understanding Security – The tool brings up valuable insights about the current on-prem Security configuration users, groups, mailboxes, objects and so on and the impact it may have after moving to Office 365.

Selective Migration –Cleaning up unwanted migration data components to make migration easier such as removing unwanted users and groups, archiving mailboxes, public folders, distribution groups and so on.

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Understanding Security – The tool brings up valuable insights about the current on-prem Security configuration users, groups, mailboxes, objects and so on and the impact it may have after moving to Office 365.

Selective Migration - Cleaning up unwanted migration data components to make migration easier such as removing unwanted users and groups, archiving mailboxes, public folders, distribution groups and so on.

On-Premise Analysis & Pre Migration Checklist for Office 365

Active Directory Analysis

Analyzing Active Directory helps you to find total number of users, groups, organizational units, containers, contacts and computers available under the specific Active Directory. Active Directory Analyzer helps you to find objects that are not required to migrate such as groups with no members or owners, inactive users in active directory etc.

Security and Permissions Analysis

Security & Permissions Analysis will provide you detailed information on permissions assigned for each mailbox in Active Directory. It also helps you to analyze mailboxes with abnormal or unwanted permissions assigned for each mailbox user in Active Directory that may compromise security after migrating to Office 365. This is one the most important steps when planning your O365 migration.

Exchange Server Configuration & Settings Analysis

Exchange Server Settings provides detailed information about settings that are configured in the given On-Premises Exchange Server. This includes DNS Settings, Certificates, Outlook Anywhere configuration, Mail Exchanger and auto Discover Settings. This feature assists system administrators to gather and understand all the technical details required before moving to Office 365.

Exchange Mailbox Analysis

A detailed information about the list of mailboxes and their usage statistics for the Exchange Server. Mailbox Analysis helps you to view detailed information on Public Folders, shared mailboxes and Distribution Group. It enables you to view the list of mailbox with size details such as mail size and attachment size. Mailbox Analysis also provides information on inactive mailboxes that have not been used in the recent past.

Public Folder Analysis

Using Public Folder Analysis, you can view the list of Public Folders that are not accessed or used for a certain time duration, permissions assigned on Public folders, Unused Public Folders, Public folder owners and storage quota all of which helps you to understand which public folders need cleanup before they are migrated to office 365.