A recent Alpha test demonstrated the effectiveness of Quest Metalogix Essentials for Office 365 in migrating on-premise file storage to OneDrive. The migration of 99 users was completed successfully, with all users transitioned ahead of schedule.
Identifies and resolves setup and configuration issues
Automates validation between source and target
Programmatic comparison of file and folder count in source and target relieves users of need to validate migration results; eliminates time delay required for users to validate migration results.
Supports pre- and post-migration messaging
Process captures pre-migration dependencies
Quest Essentials Successes
Conclusion. We are confident that using Quest Metalogix Essentials for Office 365 will enable us to scale the success experienced to migrate all remaining content within scheduling parameters.
Metrics indicate we could have migrated twice as much data if it was available
Throughput metrics captured as needed to support scalability
Throughput metrics captured as needed for scheduling
The Quest Metalogix software as implemented facilitates Progressive internal processes, policies, and an excellent user experience.
Isolates errors to aid troubleshooting in the Progressive environment
Process captures and integrates pre-migration dependencies
Automated validation process includes audit file for each user and eliminates time delays for manual migration validation by users
Supports pre- and post-migration messaging to users
The Alpha test proves Quest Metalogix Essentials for Office 365 works as described, based on the following criteria:
X of Y number of files migrated from on-premise file storage to OneDrive
Migrations completed with less-than-optimal configuration
100% (99 of 99) users migrated successfully
Introduction
The Alpha test of migrating 99 users' on-premise file storage to OneDrive was 100% successful. Evaluation criteria for success of this Alpha test include: 1) whether the product works as described; 2) whether the product can scale to production capacity; whether the product can facilitate a good user experience. In all evaluations, the Quest software works as described and as expected.
Metrics
Bullets
Alpha-migration data captured for architecture/design