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Dynamics 365 Hybrid Migration: One of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a group of Business applications and services which helps your organization in transforming the activities of your business and simplifying the daily operations of your business. It helps in delivering improved results. Instead of having separate sales and marketing functions, MS Dynamics 365 offers you automated, integrated, and sales and marketing capabilities that effectively and efficiently connect, prioritize, and convert leads into sales.

Microsoft offers various Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions for your business to enhance capabilities and the performance of your team and business.

One of the solutions out of all these Dynamics 365 Solutions is Hybrid Migration.

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Hybrid Migration?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Hybrid Migration refers to moving all your data and applications from your old on-premise deployment model of Dynamics 365 to in-cloud model of Dynamics 365. Cloud-based instances of Dynamics 365 are hosted on Azure, which allows programs and services to be built, tested, deployed, and managed from a network of managed data centres located across the globe.

Hosting your software in the cloud essentially means that program and all your data, is stored online. Using the cloud means that you don’t physically own the software you’re using, and it’s not run from your own computer. Its’s managed and handled by Microsoft data centres. All your data will be managed from those centres.

Further, we’ll discuss Steps to start and implement Hybrid Migration in your business, features of Dynamics 365 on-cloud and the difference between on-cloud and on-premise deployment models.

Steps to Implement Hybrid Migration in your business:

To start with Hybrid Migration, you need to first select a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions provider.

1. Talk to a Microsoft Dynamics 365 partners’ advisor and get help through every step of your exploration and selection.

2. Get yourself an assessment of your migration options based on the scope, timing, and your budget.

3. Consider all your options, go through them, think wisely and then select the best suitable option as per you set budget and requirements.

After the above-mentioned steps, start with the migration process and move all your data on cloud.

Features of On-Cloud Dynamics 365:

Now, we’ll talk about all the features of Dynamics 365 on-cloud:

-          It gives you quick and seamless implementation without additional hardware expenses

-          It minimizes your overhead spending

-          It facilitates you with consistent product developments Releases new features twice in a year

-          It takes zero new license costs

-          It needs no recurring license renewal expenses

-          It has five layers information security and data protection

-          It provides seamless disaster recovery services

-          It efficiently works on the Microsoft platforms through a smart integration

-          It intelligently executes integrated web portals

-          It supports applications and tools built on the universal Power platform

 So, now after knowing all the features of on-cloud Dynamics 365, I feel you would be clear as to what Is On-Cloud Dynamics 365 and why to select it for your business.

Now, we’ll give you some more clarity of why is it better than your older version on-premise deployment model.

Difference between On-Cloud and On-Premise Deployment Models

Difference             On-Cloud Dynamics 365      On-Premise Dynamics 365

Cost Model                Monthly  subscription       Huge initial  capital investment

Storage of Information Information  stored in secured Microsoft data centres

Complete  ownership and control on the information

Access of Data         Access only  through API     Full access  and ownership

Deployment           Very quick  and seamless   It is Time  taking and complicated

Hardware Requirement  No additional  hardware required  Need  additional servers

Mobility     All applications  available for offline access All Applications  available for offline access

Flexibility  It has Higher  flexibility through integrated redundancy capabilities

It is Hardware  dependent and its expensive to install redundant server for back-up

Power BI                              Integrated                         Not available

These are all the differences between on-cloud and on-premise deployment models.

Hybrid Migration i.e., moving to cloud helps you better secure you data and applications, makes it easier to adapt to changes as per the requirements, free up your IT resources, reduces operational and infrastructure costs and brings all your data together on one single platform for better understanding and simplifying the operations.

Other Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions that Microsoft offers for your business are:

Dynamics 365 Cloud Implementation, Dynamics 365 On-premise Implementation, Dynamics 365 Migration, Dynamics 365 Consultancy services, Dynamics 365 Module Implementation, Dynamics 365 Licensing, Dynamics 365 Support, Dynamics 365 Vertical solution & Functionality extension, Dynamics 365 Training & Specialized services and Dynamics 365 Integration Services.

 “There’s never a better time for you to update your older systems to cloud and take advantage of all the benefits of cloud-based business applications.”

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Office 365 - Tenant Migration without losing E-Mail Messages

Migrating mailboxes and service settings from one Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant in a business-merger scenario can be a quite troublesome task even for the most experienced System Administrators: for that very reason, even Microsoft - in its dedicated tutorial published on Microsoft Docs - strongly suggest to work with an Office 365 partner, especially if we are dealing with a migration involving more than 500 users and/or a large amount of SharePoint data. Anyway, here are the main factors that determine the choice of Office 365 tenant to tenant migration: Type of current IT infrastructure: Where will you migrate mail from? The number of e-mails to move to the cloud. Which migration option you choose: Full or Hybrid. Requirements for the process of creating and managing user accounts, using cloud services. That said, here are a number of useful questions that will help you choose a migration scenario.

1. What mail service are you migrating from?

The first question we should ask ourselves is where our source data is coming from. There is a huge difference between an Office 365 Tenant to Tenant migration, an Exchange to Exchange Online migration or some other kind of migrations involving other mail systems - such as, for example, GMail. If your current mail system supports the IMAP data transfer protocol, then perhaps a relatively simple IMAP migration is the best migration option: this is the fastest and most budget option. The peculiarity of this scenario is that there is no possibility of automatic migration of related information: contacts, calendars, tasks.

2. What kind of migration do you need?

Once you've determined the current IT infrastructure and the destination system, the most important thing to do is to understand the type of migration that better suit your specific scenario: this analysis depends on a number of factors, such as how many mailboxes do you have, if you want to migrate them all at the same time, if you need to migrate calendar events as well as e-mail messages, and so on. #1. Tenant to Tenant migration If you're planning to migrate a small-to-mid number of mailboxes - let's say, less than 1000 - from an existing Office 365 tenant, and you want to migrate them all at the same time, then a Office 365 tenant to tenant migration will be fine for you. In this case, all mailboxes, folders, distribution groups, available sorting rules, contacts, calendars, and tasks are moved to the cloud. In this case, all information is transferred to the cloud at once. This option is ideal for small and medium-sized organizations that appreciate the simplicity and convenience of the script. #2. Phased migration Things considerably change if you're planning a migration from Exchange and at lease one of the following statements are true: You want to continue to support some mailboxes in your current mail system. You want to migrate over 1000 mailboxes. You need a phased migration or a trial implementation. You do not need to exchange calendars between cloud and local users. If the above requirements are among your wishes, then a phased migration is the right option for you. Such scenario will allow you to migrate user or group mailboxes to the cloud over time while the rest will remain on the local mail system. A single Global Address Book will be created for both on-premise and on-premise users, which requires replication of objects from the on-premise Active Directory to the Office 365 cloud. This will require you to deploy and configure the DirSync directory synchronization tool.

#3. Hybrid migration

If you plan to migrate from Exchange and among your wishes are the following: You want to support a part of the mailboxes on the LAN and a part in the cloud for an indefinite period of time. You want to eventually move all mailboxes to the cloud, but there is a need to perform a trial deployment or a phased migration over a fairly long period. You want to provide maximum transparency to users, including translating employment information into calendars and a single login address. You want the incoming mail flow to be routed through your local servers. In this case, a hybrid scenario is the best option. It will allow you to achieve maximum transparency regardless of where your users' mailboxes are located: sharing busy information in calendars, correctly displaying mail prompts, absence messages. Auditors or HR staff will be able to search multiple mailboxes no matter where they are located. If necessary, you will be able to move the user's mailbox to the cloud and back with almost one click - this will not entail the need to re-load mail or create a cache of mail messages in Outlook Client. In a hybrid cloud services scenario, you would need to deploy an on-premise server in the organization that serves as the gateway to the Office 365 cloud services. You will be able to manage cloud and on-premise users from a familiar Exchange management console or via PowerShell. A hybrid scenario is slightly more complex to plan and deploy than other options, but you get maximum flexibility and transparency for end-users.

Conclusion

That's it, at least for the time being: we hope that this high-level analysis can help those System Administrators that are looking to find the best available option to migrate their e-mail messaging system to a brand-new Office 365 tenant. For additional info rearding such topic, don't forget to read the How to migrate mailboxes from one Office 365 tenant to another tutorial at Microsoft Docs. Read the full article