Migration tool company ShareGate has outlined further support for AI-ready Microsoft 365 (M365) environments – helping companies get ready for Copilot.
Accordingly, ShareGate’s vice-president of product, Benjamin Niaulin, the vendor is offering a Microsoft Copilot readiness assessment.
“There’s a whole lot more for migrations. We’ve got PowerShell 7 support. And after your migrations, you’ll look into Copilot, bringing generative AI to work to be more efficient with that,” Niaulin said in a webinar.
The Copilot readiness assessment can analyses the organisation’s tenant, delivering statistics and recommendations on how to prepare. The idea is to maximise security and data relevance, the vendor said.
Who can use the Copilot readiness tool?
Customers must have a ShareGate Protect, Migrate Pro, or Migrate Enterprise subscription, it added.
The assessment requires Microsoft Graph API application permissions that are admin-granted and read-only, different to ShareGate Protect‘s required permissions.
Consequently, ShareGate says customers should be better able to keep data safe against external threats, provision secure, purpose-fit workspaces, and archive inactive resources.
Niaulin said that in 2024 it’s not just about moving to and from the cloud but moving between clouds.
“In 2024 we already released and brought to you mailbox migrations, so you can finally migrate that other end, the M365 tenant and bring over those Exchange Online mailboxes to your production tenant,” he said.
“We’ve got a lot more coming from mailbox migrations, from PowerShell support for those of you that want to script that, all the way to a whole lot more value and features.”
OneDrive and Google functionality expands
ShareGate is adding chat support for Microsoft Teams-based conversations, and boosting OneDrive migration functionality. Additionally, ShareGate is also moving into Google workspace migrations.
“ShareGate has supported personal drives for a long time, but now you can finally take the Google workspace and all the files from that acquisition you’re making or a company that is growing and moving to M365,” Niaulin said.
Shaylyn Gimby, community engagement manager at ShareGate, told the webinar audience that most M365 migration timelines take an average nine more months than planned.
“Migrating concurrently using different workspaces can be faster,” Gimby said.
“Sharegate’s newest feature is 15 hours of end user training, to make sure users know how to collaborate safely using M365. IT teams don’t have time to create, distribute and monitor trainings.”
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