Migration shouldn’t cause you a migraine. Here’s how you can avoid the biggest pitfalls when moving data from your on-premise servers into the cloud.

Microsoft has continued to grow its migration and cloud management capabilities by acquiring two rather similarly-named platforms, Movere and Mover, in recent months. The acquisition suggests that the migration and management of cloud data is still a really strong area of focus for Microsoft.

At CompanyNet we have been helping customers migrate their data to the cloud for years, so we have a good idea of what works, and – more importantly – what doesn’t.

Motivation for migration

Organisations migrate their data for a variety of reasons. You’ll often see “digital transformation” or “cloud first” used as a banner objective, but these don’t tell you much on their own.

There might be a number of underlying motivations for migration. For example, you might have a need to reduce spending on infrastructure. Data centres and servers are expensive to operate, and replacing physical infrastructure with cloud services one way to drive down costs.

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It’s a new month and that means it’s time for CompanyNet’s regular roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month we have some insight into best practices for migrating your data; some great new transcription features which will make your workplace more accessible; changes that will help integrate Yammer closer with Office 365, and a couple of much-needed updates to SharePoint Online.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

1. Microsoft mergers put spotlight on migration
2. Video transcription extended to more apps
3. Changes to how Yammer works
4. Introducing the SharePoint start page
5. Change your SharePoint site URLs

Thanks to our Solution Designer, James Mackerness, and our Solution Architect, Stuart McLaughlin, for their contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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Welcome to CompanyNet’s monthly roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month, news about Microsoft throwing a lifeline to organisations that still haven’t moved off Windows 7, and some really useful new and improved features. We see the long-awaited integration of sensitivity labelling into Office apps, plus some new functionality in Microsoft Teams, and reports about sharing coming to SharePoint and OneDrive.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

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1. Microsoft throws (expensive) life line to organisations still running Windows 7
2. Sensitivity labels built into Office apps
3. Pinned channels in Microsoft Teams
4. Copy teams in Teams – and ‘teamify’ Office 365 Groups
5. Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online

Thanks to our Solution Designer, Maria Botha-Lopez, for her contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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This is our monthly roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month we’ve got some news about Microsoft’s investment in data security and data governance paying off, new ways to manage your channels in Teams, plus some great new components coming to SharePoint and Kira that will make your intranet sites look better than ever.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

1. Microsoft focuses in on data security
2. Moderate your channels in Microsoft Teams
3. Exciting new web parts available in SharePoint and Kira
4. Page footers on Communication Sites
5. Enhancements for page editing and layouts in SharePoint
6. Private channels in Microsoft Teams

Thanks to our Solution Designer, James Mackerness, for his contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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Welcome to our June round-up, keeping you up-to-date with changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

The end of May saw this year’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. Microsoft used this platform to make some big announcements about the SharePoint and Office 365 roadmaps. This update covers a couple of the immediate changes; we’ll share more as more details are made available over the coming months.

Here’s what to expect in the near future:

1. Notifications for intranet page comments
2. SharePoint Home sites
3. Major updates to Search throughout Office 365
4. Announcements in Microsoft Teams
5. Microsoft Teams: Per-team and cross-team analytics
6. Rich text formatting comes to Yammer
7. A more capable OneDrive mobile app

Thanks to CompanyNet team members Maria Botha-Lopez, Stuart McLaughlin and James Mackerness for their contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with the CompanyNet team – we’d love to hear from you.

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Microsoft update their Office 365 roadmap with new and changed features all the time.

But that “all the time” can quickly turn into information overload. There’s often so much that it’s difficult for you and me to process, understand what’s important, and know how to act.

That’s why, each month, we hand-pick key updates to Office 365, SharePoint Online, and our own Kira intranet platform. This is just part of CompanyNet’s ‘evergreen’ Office 365 service we offer our customers. If you’re not a customer yet, you can still subscribe to the newsletter yourself and follow us on Twitter.

As a quick aside – we recently announced that CompanyNet has partnered with collaboration platform Huddle to bring better-integrated Office 365 experiences to Huddle users. If that’s you, get in touch and find out how we can help.

Here’s what’s coming up in May for Office 365 and SharePoint:

1. Use Microsoft Search within Office apps
2. Focus on your active Teams
3. Whiteboards in Microsoft Teams
4. More exciting upcoming features in Microsoft Teams
5. Page Templates in SharePoint
6. Sticky headers in SharePoint Lists and Libaries
7. Restore page and document libraries in SharePoint with the File Restore Dashboard
8. Supercharged hover cards on files in SharePoint

Thanks to CompanyNet team members Maria Botha-Lopez and James Mackerness for their help compiling this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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