Bringing two property businesses together in Microsoft 365

The challenge

An existing Bang IT client acquired another strata management company. Both businesses already used Microsoft 365 but operated from completely separate Microsoft 365 tenants, with separate user directories, SharePoint environments, OneDrive data and collaboration boundaries.

Although the businesses would continue to operate under their respective identities, the new ownership structure created an increasing need for staff to collaborate, share information and work across common projects. Maintaining two completely separate Microsoft 365 environments would also introduce unnecessary administration and duplicated services.

What Bang IT did

Bang IT planned and carried out a Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration. Mailboxes were migrated from the acquired company’s Microsoft 365 tenant into the purchaser’s tenant, together with OneDrive and SharePoint data.

The environment was structured so that the two businesses could continue operating independently where required while sharing the same underlying Microsoft 365 tenant. This allowed identities, permissions and collaborative services to be managed within one environment without requiring the businesses to abandon their individual operational identities.

The outcome

Staff from both organisations can now collaborate within the same Microsoft 365 environment. The combined tenant makes it easier to share files securely, collaborate through Teams, work together on common projects, manage users and permissions, reduce duplicated administration and consolidate services and costs.

The migration allowed the businesses to remain operationally distinct while removing many of the technical barriers that previously existed between them.