Tenant to Tenant Migration: Restructuring Enterprise Office 365

Planning a tenant to tenant migration of Office 365 (Microsoft 365) for restructuring the cloud environment involves various strategic approaches. Restructuring the new Microsoft 365 cloud environment becomes especially important when businesses undergo a merger, acquisition, or divestiture.

Here are some of the strategies to ensure proper restructuring of the new environment in the target Microsoft 365 tenant. If you are representing your enterprise organization, we suggest taking insights from these pointers and make informed tenant migration decisions:

1. Finalize the Source Office 365 Tenant’s Drives and Apps to be Migrated

One of the foundational steps to take when it comes to restructuring the target Office 365 tenant is to finalize what to migrate. When preparing the scope of work for the Microsoft 365 cross tenant migration, plan and decide:

• The drives (e.g., OneDrive, SharePoint) and apps (e.g., Teams, Outlook) to migrate
• The total number of source tenant users to migrate
• The metadata information to preserve

2. Align Data Classification and Governance Restructuring

When performing a tenant to tenant migration of Office 365 environments, making changes on data classification and restructuring governance becomes critical, especially in these use cases:

• Mergers
• Acquisitions
• Divestitures
• Spin-offs
• Carve-outs
• Management buyouts (MBOs)

To do this, adjust the policies as per the policies set in the target Office 365 tenant. For example, if your company is being acquired by another firm, align with their data classification and governance policies in the target tenant.

You may also need to update permissions to adjust with the new changes driven by the organization restructuring process. Equally important is to align with the target tenant environment’s data lifecycle management policies.

3. Focus on Security and Compliance Adjustments in the Target Tenant

When restructuring your enterprise organization’s Office 365 environment in the target tenant, ensure to make proper security and compliance adjustments. One of the primary steps for this is to configure Azure Active Directory settings to reflect the new organizational structure.

Other steps, such as syncing user identities, adjusting access policies, and following the target tenant’s multi-factor authentication protocol should help.

4. Ensure Proper Post-Migration Validation and Optimization

After completing the tenant to tenant migration of your Microsoft 365 environments, make sure to perform extensive validation of the migrated users, data, and metadata. With CloudFuze as the tenant migration partner, performing in-depth validation becomes seamless.

We provide all businesses with detailed migration reports that include key parameters, such as:

• The total number of users migrated
• Total number of data (files and folders) migrated
• Types of rich metadata information preserved
• The start and end date of the migration batch
• Status of any file or folder in conflict

After completing validation, perform key post-migration optimization tasks, such as:

• Syncing the migrated data
• Archiving old tenants
• Revoking access to the old tenant
• Or decommissioning the old tenant altogether

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Frequently Asked Questions

How to perform a tenant to tenant migration of Office 365?

Using the right tenant migration tool can help you perform a complete Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant migration for your company.

Is it possible to migrate Office 365 tenants completely?

Yes, you can migrate your company’s entire Office 365 tenant by transfer data of all the Microsoft 365 drives and apps, such as OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Outlook, Teams, Calendar, and more.

What is the best Microsoft 365 tenant migration tool?

CloudFuze’s tenant to tenant migration tool is one of the most advanced options in the industry. It is designed to enable large enterprises as well as small and medium-sized businesses to perform highly secure tenant migrations with unmatched performance.