Planning Office 365
All projects, regardless of size, require planning. In Chapter 2, Fundamentals of Office 365, I advised you to create a project plan with the following phases:
- Start of the project
- Assessment
- Remediation
- Enabling
- Migration
- End phase
- User feedback
You can use this process in all your projects, or just adapt it to your methodology:
When you are preparing the migration of an enterprise organization to Office 365, it is very important to plan the steps in order for your project to be successful. This sample checklist will help you to start organizing your plan and be prepared for a migration to Office 365.
Sample checklist
List your deployment goals and bear in mind the following factors:
- Who are your internal and external teams?
- What is the scope of the project?
- What will be the tracking mechanism of the project?
- What are the milestone dates?
Then start making decisions about the deployment:
- Make an inventory of what will be migrated from each workload to Office 365:
- Users
- Groups
- Mailboxes...
