The school first approached Levett Consultancy at the BETT show. After having evaluated the various strengths of Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Office 365 the school opted for Levett Consultancy ‘Microsoft Solution‘ offering based on Office 365 Education. This would bring their email, their calendars and intranet documents (via sharepoint) into one system – easily accessible by staff with the same login as they already use for their workstation.

Prior to the start date of the project, the Professional Service team worked with the school to identify the Office 365 Education features and settings required to meet the school’s needs as well as the relevant information needed for the setup. The Office 365 tenant was configured to reflect these needs and Microsoft Active Directory Sync setup to mirror windows user accounts and passwords in Office 365 Education.

With the accounts set up and ready to receive mail a staged migration was implemented. Mail was first migrated for the IT admins at the school to enable them to test mail client configuration on site. Following confirmation of the configuration groups of mailboxes were migrated separately to allow IT staff to more effectively check the users mail had migrated successfully.