Five Pitfalls to Avoid during a Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Migration

Planning for Success

I’ve been involved in onboarding organizations to the Microsoft cloud as well as moving and consolidating them between tenancies for almost 10 years now. I’ve seen and created a lot of different top 5 or top 10 lists on this topic. For this blog, I figured I wouldn’t tackle the top 5 things to do! Why? Well, because everyone has already covered them, and they haven’t changed too much. You probably know some of those already… pilot then reassess, have a rollback plan, over-communicate and the list goes on and on.

For this list, I’ve collected some rough pitfalls for you to consider when planning your next Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant migration project. These pitfalls (see figure 1) impact various areas in Microsoft 365, including Teams, Azure AD, Exchange Online, and Cross-Tenant integration. Keep reading...