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Why UK public sector organisations can’t ignore legacy email archive migrations

Legacy email archives are now one of the biggest blockers to digital transformation in the UK public sector.
Most councils, NHS bodies and arm’s-length organisations have already moved to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, but their historical email data is still locked inside ageing systems like Mimecast, Enterprise Vault or SourceOne. These platforms are costly to maintain, difficult to secure and slow down compliance work such as FOI, SAR and eDiscovery.

Migrating archives into O365 or Google is the final step in completing a modern cloud-first strategy—improving governance, reducing technical debt and eliminating unnecessary risk. And with Ultimate Migrator available through G-Cloud 14, public sector organisations can procure this work quickly and compliantly, without launching a full tender.

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Have you ever been throttled by Microsoft?

One of the issues when migrating your on-premise email into O365 has been the speed at which the O365 platform can accept the data. Microsoft has always had a data ingress throttling policy but that could always be switched off on a per tenant basis for a period of time during the on-boarding process. Thus temporarily by-passing the throttling restrictions enabled the migration into the O365 platform to proceed at an acceptable rate. Until…..

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.pst Files – Friend or Foe?

The answer to that question is pretty clear – once a friend, but now very much a foe.

In times gone by, and we are talking over twenty years ago now, .pst files were a useful solution to the problem of limited server mailbox capacity. In those days, storing a .pst file on a local pc and including it in a back-up regime was the way forward. In those days, .pst files were a friend indeed….

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