Eliminating the risk of downtime is undoubtedly one of the biggest priorities for businesses planning to migrate cloud data to Microsoft 365. IT admins must streamline the migration platform and understand the limitations in Microsoft 365 to ensure that there are no loopholes in the migration.
Here are five critical ways businesses can lower the risk of downtime:
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1. Mapping User Accounts Properly
One of the fundamental boxes to check to lower the risk of migration downtime is to map all user accounts accurately. Streamlining the user account mapping stage is crucial to ensure that the data transfer path is accurate.
Mapping user accounts for the plan to migrate to Microsoft 365 can be challenging if the user accounts in Microsoft 365 are not provisioned. Make sure that all the user accounts are provisioned before mapping them with the source cloud user accounts.
2. Ensuring Automatic Conversion of Special Characters Unsupported in Microsoft 365
One of the major challenges of migrating data to Microsoft 365 is that the cloud suite does not support specific special characters. And since modifying the unsupported special characters in bulk files and folders by the manual method is out of scope, it is a must to have an automatic system that does this.
Discrete, full-stack cloud data migration tools like CloudFuze play a pivotal role in ensuring zero conflict by automatically modifying unsupported special characters. CloudFuze also resolves unsupported file/folder names and automatically trims unsupported file/folder paths.
3. Ensuring Automatic Conversion of Source Cloud-specific Features
Businesses that plan to migrate source cloud-specific features, e.g., Box Notes to OneDrive and SharePoint Online, need to rely on a system that automatically converts them into relevant formats in the destination cloud.
CloudFuze automatically converts Box Notes, Dropbox Paper, and other source cloud-specific features seamlessly into relevant formats in Microsoft 365.
4. Ensuring Proper Setup of the Migration Environment
Proper infrastructure plays a critical role in significantly lowering the risk of migration downtime. Businesses, especially enterprises with extensive migration requirements, must use dedicated migration instances to ensure uninterrupted data transfer.
Businesses that plan to perform the entire migration on an on-prem environment must have high-performance hardware configuration. Setting up a high level of on-prem environment security is equally important.
5. Having an Automatic System to Resolve Files That Go into Conflict
During migration, files or folders may go into conflict due to reasons such as transfer rate throttling. It is important for businesses of all sizes to use a migration tool that has a built-in feature to resolve files and folders that go into conflict.
This way, businesses can lower the risk of migration disruption to a significant extent. Also, they can make sure that there are no loopholes during the entire data migration.
