The challenge
Email ran on a legacy on-premises system. For a financial technology business, that meant carrying the reliability risk, security patching and capacity planning of a mail server in-house, for a service the whole organisation depends on every day.
The objective
- Move all email from the on-premises system to Exchange Online.
- Keep communication running throughout the migration.
- Strengthen email security and data protection in the new platform.
What was delivered
- Exchange Online migrationMigration of the legacy on-premises mail system to Exchange Online in Microsoft 365.
- Mail security & data protectionMail security and data protection configured in the new environment.
- Scalable cloud serviceA move from self-managed mail infrastructure to a scalable cloud service.
Security considerations
Moving mail to the cloud was used as the moment to raise the security baseline: email protection and data-protection settings were configured in Exchange Online rather than carried over unchanged from the old system.
Result
OUTCOME 01
Email now runs on Exchange Online instead of an on-premises server.
OUTCOME 02
Stronger email security and data protection than the legacy system provided.
OUTCOME 03
Improved reliability and communication across the organisation.