Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange enable email and documents to be shared between multiple people.

Organisations that are transforming their underlying email platform, by migrating from Exchange to Office 365 for example, need to migrate the contents of Public Folders (PF) to new targets including SharePoint. Each project has its unique technical challenges as PF usage varies by customer.  Business processes that may work well in PFs don’t necessarily translate easily to Shared Mailboxes, Office

 Our first blog on the complexities of an archive migration covered chain-of-custody.

Email journals present another challenge.

Many organisations maintain a journal archive to meet compliance and business needs.  The journal archive is often a complete record of all emails sent and received within an organisation, although many solutions extend the reach beyond email with the ability to retain many other forms of business communications including Teams, Slack, Yammer etc.

A range of

This blog series explains some of the specific aspects that make migrations very complex. 

We start with chain of custody: what is it and why is it so important in data migrations? 

A chain of custody is the complete, documented, chronological history of the possession and handling of a record throughout its lifetime - from creation to destruction and it needs conscientious handling. Proper chain of custody registers through whose hands the information has passed