Rob Walton is the owner, and lead consultant, of office365migrate.com .
Rob has worked with email systems, email migrations, and cloud technologies for over 25 years. Due to his level of experience in email delivery, Rob is often hired as an email expert witness in court matters.
Hire our Office 365 migration expertise for your O365 migration project. We are a small team of expert consultants. Use our knowledge & experience to lower the business risk of your Office 365 migration, or (de-)merger activity.
Contact us for a free consultation, and we can also provide you with a free checklist covering your O365 migration project, or O365 merger project scenario.
We offer a fixed price M365 Cyber Security Assessment to all our customers at the end of each project, based on the CIS benchmarks.
When starting out on your Office 365 migration project, reduce the risk of it going wrong. Hire a true Office 365 migration expert to help you navigate the many pitfalls you can encounter. No Office 365 migration project is the same, and you cannot plan, or predict, for all events. By hiring an O365 migration expert, you will be able to react quickly to the unforeseen events that will occur – and that will lead to a successful project.
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Still using Exchange 2016/2019 in hybrid mode? Microsoft are ending support for Exchange 2016 & 2019 versions in October 2025. We can help you prepare for Exchange SE (Subscription Edition).
Q: Why do I need an “Office365 migration services expert” for my migration project?
A: Office365 migration project can go badly wrong if you do not use an expert. An expert is someone who has done the work many times before. Also providing guidance to ensure minimal mistakes are made.
Q: How many Office 365 migrations does it take to become an expert in migration services?
A: For our team, an Office 365 migration consultant must complete over 10 medium sized migrations to become an “expert”.
Q: Which countries do you cover for Office 365 migration expert services?
A: We cover all countries remotely, and can arrange for onsite on request.
Q: Do you cover SharePoint migrations?
A: Yes, we do cover SharePoint migrations from SharePoint on-premise to SharePoint Online, and also Tenant to Tenant SharePoint migrations.
A common migration scenario we are asked to help with is from GoDaddy hosted Office 365 migrating to a new clean Office 365 Tenant. GoDaddy have lots of customers, and many of them use their Read more
We often get asked to help with email forensic work during an email migration project. Senior leadership may require a discrete email forensic investigation carried out. The other common request related to email forensic expertise, Read more
As we close off 2024 it is a good time to remind ourselves when Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 support ends. Microsoft have a date of October 14th 2025 for support ending for both Exchange Read more
If you are running Exchange 2019 in your environment, including as part of an Exchange Hybrid setup, then you should be running the latest Exchange 2019 CU14 update. Exchange 2019 CU14 provides a number of Read more
TLS 1.3 was introduced back in August 2018. However, Exchange 2019 and Exchange Online do not currently support it. Windows 2022 has introduced support for TLS 1.3, but Exchange 2019 does not support it, so Read more
DANE support with DSSEC for Inbound SMTP Exchange Online Microsoft now support the use of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to further secure inbound mail flow into Exchange Online. This is free for any Exchange Online Read more
DMARC is a free email authentication protection control that is used alongside SPF and DKIM. When used correctly it provides an effective security policy to help prevent malicious actors from impersonating your email addresses outside Read more
Microsoft have made various announcements about removing the last Exchange Server from your Exchange Organisation if you have migrated all mailboxes (and mail functions) to Office 365. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/Exchange/manage-hybrid-exchange-recipients-with-management-tools This is in the context that you Read more
We are often asked to migrate customers off GoDaddy hosted email to a new Microsoft Office 365 (O365) Tenant. GoDaddy is widely used by customers for hosted email, as that is where they have their Read more
Microsoft released Exchange 2019 CU13 in May 2023. Anyone using Exchange 2019 is recommended to deploy this latest cumulative update. This is also known as the Exchange 2023 H1 update. The major feature for this Read more
If you are still using a hosted email service that is based on IMAP (or POP3) it is time to consider moving onto Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and benefit from the improved security. I have Read more
Proper use of the SPF and DKIM email authentication controls allows you to also enforce the DMARC control to significantly increase your email security posture. Adopting the desired DMARC reject mode allows you to help Read more
Introduction | GroupWise is Alive GroupWise to Office 365 migration project requests are still coming into my inbox. This is a surprise, as GroupWise keeps on dying each year. But then these requests keep on Read more
Introduction – Office 365 Security Customers often migrate their email to MS Office 365 without considering the change in security landscape. Migrating to Office 365 offers the convenience of a cloud solution, but we recommend Read more
Introduction Recently I was asked to help a customer remove meetings from a staff member who had left. Their Office 365 mailbox had been deleted, but the request was to have that person’s meetings removed Read more