Migrations & legacy exits
Plan the migration date, protect access and check what arrived.
Moving from Google Workspace, GoDaddy or an on-premises Exchange server? Plan the mail, sign-in and application changes together. Agree the cutover window, recovery steps and checks before the move.
What this looks like in real life
A regional contractor moved twenty-five years of project files off an aging on-premise server into SharePoint and OneDrive. The first attempt was done on the cheap, and it looked fine until estimators could not open files in the middle of a bid. Folders with a "#" in the name silently broke sync, the deepest project paths sat right on the Windows length limit, and a recent Windows update had quietly broken the sign-in that OneDrive, Outlook and SharePoint all rely on. Three separate failures, surfacing as one tangled mess.
What was at risk
- Live bid files that estimators could not open the week they were due.
- No reliable way to prove which files had crossed over and which were silently missing.
- A team blaming the new platform, and an owner ready to reverse the entire move.
The work that resolves it
A reconciliation script that compared the destination against the source and surfaced the exact missing files, the folder-name and path-length faults fixed at the root, and a written migration runbook handed to the team so they could run the rest themselves. The move held.
The relevant scope
Start with a defined piece of work
The scope, the price, and how you will know it is finished are agreed in writing before anyone is given access. Review the engagement below for its deliverables, responsibilities and acceptance criteria.
The engagement
Email Migration
The move itself: everything counted first, the switch run in a scheduled window with written rules for stopping, mail tested on the new path, and a check sheet showing old and new match before the old system is released. Files and whole-tenant moves are their own pages.
Often paired with
Complex Migration and Cutover Plan
For moves with too many dependencies to price from a call. The route decision, the dependency map, a sequenced wave plan with rollback criteria, and a fixed quote for the implementation; no mailbox or file moves during the plan, and the move runs as its own project against it.
What you walk away with
What the evidence looks like
A representative deliverable. Yours is built on your own tenant.
Result tested before handoff
Every change is checked against what was agreed before the work is signed off, by the one engineer who scoped it and ran it.
Changes in approved windows
Nothing changes until the scope is agreed in writing. Changes to live systems run in windows the business approves, with the way back agreed before the window opens.
Fixed scope
A defined deliverable and a written test for when it is finished, agreed before anything starts.
Not sure this is the one?
Describe what happened, in a paragraph. A reply comes within one business day with the most direct next step, or a clear answer that AZ Innovations is not the right fit.
Discuss the scope and quoteWhat happens next
- 1Describe what happenedA few short fields: company size, environment, and what is going wrong.
- 2A reply within one business dayThe most direct next step, or a clear answer that AZ Innovations is not the right fit.
- 3A fixed-fee proposalNamed scope, price, and how you will know it is finished. No obligation.