Looking for migration tools for mergers and acquisitions
Posted by probablydnsibet@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Got wind today that my company plans on acquiring more firms. In the same meeting they let us know that they want to reduce the amount of spending on migration costs. Currently we will contract out help for the lift & shift. They suggested they wanted to drop the contractor help and instead give us budget for tools to use for migrations. Looks like we are going to do be doing this ourselves which doesn't seem like a big deal but the time needed for these acquisitions is going to be a lot. That being said, I'm updating my resume just incase if this gets too much.
What are some tools and resources you've used for migrating companies into yours? We are running 365, heavy Sharepoint use.
EnoughGrade1906@reddit
We had to handle a couple of office 365 migrations in house too. Hud io made it way easier to organize assets and track progress, especially when things started piling up. Worth checking out for this kind of project.
itsallahoaxbud@reddit
Look at the Quest suite of tools. Used those heavily in my working life. Did over 400 integrations.
ultramagnes23@reddit
I second Quest On Demand, its been my goto for the past 2 years for all of our M&As.
TxJprs@reddit
Just used it this year. Was an easy button.
PrettyAdagio4210@reddit
Another one for Quest! Very satisfied with it in all of my migrations.
LesPaulAce@reddit
Quest. ShareGate. MigrationWiz. Native tools.
Check out https://thecloudgeezer.com/microsoft-365-discovery-report/ and all of his videos. I am not affiliated, but the cost of his discovery tool is an absolutely unbelievable bargain.
Dropping the contractor is false economy. They do these all the time, and know what goes wrong.
Careful_Office8447@reddit
This can be done with a tool called Snapshot Org Intelligence. Here is their website and they offer free demos to discuss you use case with them. www.metazoacom
TheTechRef@reddit
MigrationWiz is the standard for 365 mailboxes. For SharePoint and Teams, ShareGate is the way to go. It makes moving files and permissions much less of a headache than the native Microsoft tools.
Doing M&A internally is a massive time sink. If you're stuck doing the research and vetting for all these new tools or looking for cheaper service providers to fit the new budget, check out The Tech Ref. They handle the administrative legwork of sourcing and coordinating IT vendors for free. It might help keep your workload manageable so you don't actually have to use that updated resume.
cnarasimaperumal@reddit
Fyi: I'm working at Apps4.pro
One gap I see in this thread is coverage of the harder M365 workloads that most tools skip. If your acquired companies are using:
- Planner Premium (Project for the web)
- Viva Engage (Yammer communities)
- Power Automate flows
- Power BI workspaces & reports
most of the tools mentioned here don't cover these. You end up doing those manually or rebuilding from scratch, which quietly kills your timeline. We built Apps4.pro Migration Manager to cover these alongside the standard Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive workloads — specifically because M&A migrations kept running into this gap.
Happy to answer questions or do a walkthrough if it's useful.
Top-Perspective-4069@reddit
MigrationWiz and Sharegate if everything is M365. If you have AD to deal with, ODM-AD from Quest is great.
jameseatsworld@reddit
Avepoint fly (SaaS) but buying direct difficult they tend to sell via CSP partners. Very low per object (user) pricing. Dynamic mappings, 12 month licenses. Used for multiplen 30-100 company acquisitions, merginng M365 > M365 or Gsuite > M365.
For cloud migration of traditional file shares to SharePoint still using Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool - with lots of manual cleanup of the shares before migrate task.
iLORdemeNtE@reddit
BitTitan and ShareGate were some tools we've used, to answer your question.
Will add that the company is setting themselves up for failure by not contracting out migration work. Takes away significant time from your day-to-day and you'll miss a lot of small important stuff, regardless of how technically strong your team is. Also the acquired company's employees will start to leave, so you're left holding the technical baggage.
RoyalSkip@reddit
Sorry but had to go with a joke: