Six years ago we started a migration to cloud services at work. In this post I’m going to go through the steps we took and what our network looked like back then, now, and the future steps.
We ran a traditional network – three node VMWare cluster with shared storage (fibre channel SAN), desktop PCs in most areas with a small laptop deployment, Exchange Server on-premises, and home and shared drive maps to a local file server. Remote access to documents was via a Remote Desktop Services cluster, and this was the only remaining use for RDS as we have previously migrated to a cloud based MIS.
We initially wanted to shift the Exchange workload to Exchange Online and take advantage of the fact that – for education customers – it was free. We followed this up, once Office 365 had matured a bit, with migrating home drives to OneDrive, and then shared drives to a mixture of SharePoint and Teams. Finally we started piloting Teams in 2019 and were thrown into a full roll-out in March 2020 with the surprise of Coronavirus. Continue reading “Shift to the Cloud: Moving a school to OneDrive and Teams”
