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How your migration works — step by step

No black box: here is every phase of your migration in detail — what happens, what we need from you and what result you hold in your hands. Your business keeps running as normal throughout.

  • Pre-migration during normal operation
  • Delta sync on the cut-over date
  • Validation with final report
Phase 1

Enquiry & initial call

You tell us about your project — fastest via the price calculator, which sends your configuration along. In a short call we clarify source, target, scope and your preferred date.

What we need from you

Just the basics: which platforms, roughly how many mailboxes, by when.

Result

You know whether and how your project is feasible, usually within one business day.

Phase 2

Access & discovery analysis

We set up technical access to source and target (e.g. an app registration in Microsoft 365, a service account in Google Workspace; we guide you or do it together with you). Our software then automatically records the inventory: mailboxes and folders, calendars, contacts, drives, groups and shares. Credentials are stored exclusively encrypted in our key vault and never in plain text in databases or logs.

What we need from you

An admin account or approval for the technical access described.

Result

A discovery report: exactly what exists and how each part will be migrated — before anything is touched.

Phase 3

Fixed-price quote & test migration

Based on the discovery figures you receive a fixed-price quote with a clear scope and schedule. Before the main migration we run a test migration with individual real mailboxes, so you see the result in your own system before you commit.

What we need from you

Your approval of the quote and 2–3 test mailboxes.

Result

A binding price, an agreed schedule and a tested migration path.

Phase 4

Pre-migration during normal operation

Most of the data is transferred in the background: emails with folder structure and read status, calendars, contacts, files. Your team keeps working as usual: we only read from the source and change nothing there. Several mailboxes run in parallel; standard folders such as Inbox or Sent end up in the real system folders at the target, not in copy folders.

What we need from you

Nothing. You keep working as usual.

Result

The target is already largely filled before the switch.

Phase 5

Cut-over & delta sync

On the agreed date — happily at the weekend or in the evening — we switch over (e.g. mail delivery to the new platform). A delta sync transfers everything that has arrived since the pre-migration. The actual switch is therefore short, and nothing that arrived in the meantime is lost.

What we need from you

The agreed time window and a contact person for the cut-over date.

Result

Your team starts the next working day on the new platform, with complete mailboxes.

Phase 6

Validation & final report

After the migration our software compares source and target: per mailbox and per folder, not as a sample. Every discrepancy is named, re-migrated or documented with a reason (e.g. objects rejected by the target system). You receive a final report that proves completeness.

What we need from you

Nothing. If you like, we go through the report together.

Result

Documented proof instead of a gut feeling. Then: handover and support.

Good to know

During the migration

The source stays untouched

We read from the source system; nothing is deleted or changed there. Your old data remains completely intact until the project is finished, and you can look into it at any time.

GDPR & security

Migration exclusively via our servers in Germany and the EU. Credentials are stored encrypted in a key vault and deleted after the project is completed. On request we sign a data processing agreement (DPA).

Parallel, not one after another

Several mailboxes are migrated at the same time. This keeps larger projects on schedule without overloading the systems: our software automatically respects the providers' limits.

Honest limits

Not everything can be transferred 1:1, such as rules from some legacy systems or drafts. We name such points upfront in the discovery and in the quote, instead of surprising you on migration day.

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