A growing team
We moved a growing team off Google Workspace with no data loss. Then we built their full Microsoft 365 Business Premium environment from the ground up, secured it, and trained the people. Now we support them every month on a retainer.
The business ran on Google Workspace, and for a while it did the job. As the team grew, the cracks started to show. The owner wanted tighter security. He wanted a proper document structure his people could actually navigate, real collaboration in Teams, and an environment that matched how a serious business runs day to day. The first ask was simple on the surface. Move us to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, and do it without losing anything. The harder part was doing it cleanly. A migration that drops emails, breaks shared files, or locks the team out on Monday morning is worse than no migration at all. He needed it handled by someone who had done it many times, so the switch felt like an upgrade rather than a disruption. That is where we came in. Security felt loose for a business this size. No enforced multi factor, and no real device policy. Files were hard to navigate. There was no document structure people could actually find their way around. Collaboration did not match how a serious business runs. No Teams set up around real workflows. One wrong move could drop emails or break shared files. That fear was holding everything up. A migration that drops data is worse than no migration at all. The owner needed it handled by someone who had done it many times.
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We never move and delete in one step. Email, contacts, calendars, and Drive content were copied into Microsoft 365 first. Google Workspace stayed intact and readable the whole time. Only once the owner confirmed everything had landed was anything cleared from the source. It is the same no data loss method behind every Microsoft 365 migration we run. Drive content did not land in one messy pile either. We sorted it into the right places across OneDrive and SharePoint, so the team walked into a structure they could actually navigate. Want to see how a clean move works for your team? Explore our Microsoft 365 migration service.
We planned the migration around the team's working hours, so nobody lost a day. Email, contacts, and calendars moved across. Google Drive content landed in the right place in OneDrive and SharePoint, rather than being dumped in one pile. We tested, verified, and cut over with no data loss and effectively no downtime.
With everyone on Microsoft 365, we built the environment properly. We configured the domain and email. We designed a SharePoint document structure around how the team finds and shares files, and set up Teams to match their real workflows. Everyone got OneDrive, and a permission model that is clean from the start and easy to keep clean.
We applied a security baseline and enforced multi factor authentication across the team. We set device and compliance policies through Intune, so company data stays protected wherever people work. We also gave clear backup recommendations, so nothing important is ever one mistake away from being gone.
A great setup only pays off if people use it well. We trained the team so they were comfortable in Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive from day one. That cut the usual flood of questions that follows any move like this.
By the time the project closed, the owner did not want a vendor who disappears after go live. He wanted a partner. We moved him onto a monthly retainer of ten hours. Now the environment keeps improving, questions get answered fast, and small issues never grow into big ones.
We'd scope the same kind of engagement for your business, with timelines and effort against each stage.
They moved us off Google without a single hiccup, then built everything the way it should have been from the start. Having them on a monthly retainer means I stop thinking about IT and get back to running the business.
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The firm had run its email on an aging host for years. The team already lived in Outlook and Office files every day, and everyone agreed the move to Microsoft 365 made sense. One thing kept blocking it, and it was not technical. As the owner put it, losing 19 years of email would be an absolute disaster. They needed to feel completely comfortable before anyone touched the mailboxes. So the whole project was built around a single promise. Nothing at the source would be removed until every mailbox had been checked and verified on the new side. The fear was not the move. It was losing two decades of history that the business runs on every day.
The agency had bought Microsoft 365 through GoDaddy when it first set up the business. Over time the cracks showed. They could not reach their own Microsoft 365 admin center to change a thing. Paying for security add ons that were pushed on them, not chosen. Work their licenses should have covered was simply out of reach. Billed every month for a middleman that added cost but no value. In their words, it just felt like a huge scam. They kept asking why they were paying so much when it did not make sense. They wanted out, but one fear stopped them cold. Would they lose their emails or their domain if they disconnected from the reseller?
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