We plan the migration and run the cloud afterwards.
We plan the migration, then run the Microsoft 365 tenant, the Azure workloads and the on-premises servers that stay behind, and the same engineers handle the helpdesk tickets that come from them. Evolve Technologies plans each migration from its Southport or Toowoomba office, and the clients are spread across the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Toowoomba.
Microsoft 365, Azure and the servers on site.
The work ranges from moving a file server into Azure to cleaning up a Microsoft 365 tenant that has grown without governance.
We size the subscription to current usage.
The sizing comes from your current usage and the growth you have planned, with any compliance obligations noted against it.
We review the sizing with you whenever headcount or workloads change, and the review covers licensing as well as compute.
We quote the downtime before you sign.
Each migration is scoped against a full inventory, and the cutover is rehearsed on a pilot group where the stakes warrant it.
The plan has rollback criteria agreed before the night. Most cutovers run over a weekend and cost less than a few hours of business-hours impact.
We keep running the tenant after the migration.
Licence counts, sharing permissions and conditional access rules all change as staff join and leave.
We review the licence count against headcount, remove access that leavers kept, and flag any new spend before it reaches the invoice.
A law firm, a planning group and a strata manager moved to the cloud.
A new office for OMB Solicitors, open on day one
OMB Solicitors moved into the top two floors of a new five-level Southport building in late 2022. We ran the site survey and changed the cabling and electrical plans to double the power points and network drops at each desk, built a cloud-based environment in which staff hot-desk and new hires sign in without a setup day, and coordinated the print, ISP and legal-software vendors. When the ISP missed the install date and its wireless backup failed, two load-balanced 4G services carried the office across both floors.
Read the full story: A new office for OMB Solicitors, open on day one
Zone Planning Group's project files moved from a NAS to SharePoint
Zone Planning Group kept its project files on an ageing NAS in Burleigh Heads, with copies at its Gladstone and Moss Vale offices. We migrated the library to Microsoft SharePoint, where it is now indexed and searchable, split it by year and by region after the first layout breached SharePoint's container limits, set up document libraries, custom lists and automated processes, and rewrote the training documentation to start from the basics once we had watched the team use it.
Read the full story: Zone Planning Group's project files moved from a NAS to SharePoint
Quarter-end back inside business hours for a strata manager
A strata manager running StrataMax across 15 workstations was losing admin time to slow quarter-end reporting, backups that had never been test-restored, and a run of printer and scanner faults. We moved StrataMax onto a cloud platform sized for the firm's current workload, added a second internet service with automatic failover, rebuilt all 15 workstations from a standard image, and set up daily backups with a test restore every month.
Read the full story: Quarter-end back inside business hours for a strata managerA migration plan has to answer these first.
Can Evolve Technologies migrate our business to Microsoft 365?
Is Evolve Technologies a Microsoft partner?
Should our servers move to the cloud or stay on-premises?
Does Microsoft 365 need a separate backup?
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