Consultancy

Office 365 is a cloud-hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) solution delivering feature rich collaboration for email, collaboration and communication delivered through the same Office products you already know and use each and every day.

Because Office 365 is powered by the Microsoft cloud, businesses get to their applications and files from virtually anywhere; PC, Mac, and mobile devices, and they’re always up to date. Office 365 is powered through the online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, MS Teams & Office; technologies that millions of customers enjoy today. This means that IT support organisations can lower the burden required to run these enterprise-grade products, and lower their dependence on on-premises infrastructure.

We begin Office 365 engagements by performing a rigorous business & technical analyses to determine migration blockers and accelerators. From there, Sundown's Microsoft-certified M365 Experts, plan and architect all aspects of the upgrade and migration paths, and collaborate with your team for the deployment and migration. We create positive staff experiences through process-driven quality assurance at both the server and client levels, and empower your IT and business teams through Microsoft-certified education and learning curricula which is delivered by our own MCT's - Microsoft Certified Trainers

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As part of our initial assessment phase which includes Data Collection and Analysis across the current infrastructure (regardless of version or type), we capture sizing & security information and also correlate the interdependencies such as EUC platforms, shared services (public folders, web services, SMTP relay etc.), device management tooling (MDM - current and future) as they ALL have an impact on the Planning & Design phase.

As with all cloud transformation projects Sundown execute, the preliminary information capture feeds into the Planning & Design phase, and underpins the Reference Architecture which documents subsequent build, migration and support plans.

All large-scale messaging transformations incorporate many of the key features and benefits listed below:

Features

• Preparing Office 365 to meet your organisations needs
• Document Network Performance - capacity and bandwidth, security and firewall requirements
• Offline Archive assessment and migrations / rehydration – PST’s etc.
• Office 365 migration project rescue.
• Licensing Assessment and recommendations
• Decommissioning of on-premise infrastructure.
• 24x7 Managed Services & HyperCare

Benefits:

• Interoperability and co-existence across existing messaging environments and Office 365.
• Directory replication with AAD Connect, if need be standby services, incorporating any writeback requirements.
• Authentication whether Federated (via ADFS), pass-through authentication or password hash sync.
• Multi-Factor requirements whether enforced through Conditional Access or though Federated ADFS with additional authentication rules or policies.
• Mobile Device Management, device registration, profiles and tooling.
• Global mail routing optimization and message hygiene.
• Unified messaging migration.
• Migration of all mail data including mailboxes, archives and public folders to Office 365.
• New user provisioning can be orchestrated

Microsoft technologies connect your employees to the information they need and the people the need to engage with to get their jobs done in more efficient and productive ways. Combining great user experiences with rich content, the Sundown team are leading experts in this field, helping to customise and enhance SharePoint & Teams platforms & portals to provide users with easy access to the right information at the right time – informing, empowering, organizing, and connecting your employees with a stable and secure cloud platform.

This approach has also included our award winning TeamsTranet and SPaaP (SharePoint as a Platform) which deliver feature rich capabilities and absolute ease of access:

SharePoint As A Platform is not a new term. It has been around since SharePoint was created. Not only is SharePoint a world class content management system, it is also a world class platform.

This is very evident with Microsoft's continuing investment in the feature rich APIs, CSOM and PowerShell cmdlets. Accessing and using the product as an intermediary layer opens up a world of possibilities and allows for the latest and greatest content and frameworks to run on top of a solid Microsoft stack.