Public Folders and the Cloud
85% of business data is unstructured, an amount that doubles every 90 days. Unstructured data across cloud Office365, layered with improperly managed mailboxes and distribution lists, can create a complex network of inappropriate permissions and ownership that increase security risk. Public folders only add to that risk.
Migration Requirements
O365 migrations require Public Folders elimination in their current form.
Unclear Licensing Needs
There is a lot of misinformation across O365 licensing models.
VIP Mailboxes
Unnecessary legacy access and stale shared mailboxes create undue risk.
SPHERExperts: Public Folder Elimination and O365 Readiness
SPHERE provides the expertise to provide deep analysis on Messaging assets and help to improve migration requirements. Our dedicated team will remediate all access controls issues, retire unused assets that arent required and migrate to the appropriate alternate repository.
Assessment
Inventory public folders and use case to map to an alternate repository.
Planning
Identify migration requirements, permissions and assets.
Risk Analysis
Conduct risk analyses and assign a risk value for prioritization.
Remediation
Reconcile and standardize messaging assets and public folder environment.
Migration
Complete migration to the appropriate alternative repository.
Our Approach
Our end-to-end approach delivers a deeper, smarter, and more automated way to reduce risk and better govern your messaging and collaboration environments.
Collect
Scan on prem, cloud, AD, SharePoint and more.
Correlate
Examine for open, excessive and non-standard access.
Organize
Establish actionable metrics for use cases.
Report
Gain visibility into every major risk.
Remediate
Remediate assets based on prioritized risk.
To understand how this service connects to SPHEREboard, learn about our full methodology.
Ongoing Support with SPHERExperts
Professional Services
Signature services with a consultative approach to continuously mature and improve your messaging and collaboration environment.
➝ Assessments, including Microsoft Teams
➝ Project Delivery and Remediation
➝ Connector Implementation
➝ Custom Solutions
Managed Services
Ongoing support to deal with fluid and ever-changing requirements to ensure proper controls are in place.
➝ O365 Analysis and Planning
➝ SharePoint and OneDrive Reporting
➝ Target Operating Model Build
Public Folders and the Cloud, A Migration Guide
There are few information stores in the enterprise that rival the digital assets housed in mailboxes and public folders across the cloud. Cloud migration means that you need to take stock of these assets and answer key questions about access and security – you can’t simply upgrade public folders from earlier versions of Exchange.
View the Guide