Migrating to Office 365 is becoming increasingly popular among businesses, both large and small. Though Microsoft offers some more beneficial features like security and reliability, enterprises are yet loath to comprehend the variety due to implementation challenges. Office 365 deployment can appear deceivingly simple, but there is a wide diversity of considerations that hinge on an organization 's unique business demands. Below listed are the top 5 major risks enterprises face while implementing Microsoft Office 365.
1. Access Issues
2. Mitigating risk
3. Messaging security
4. Corrupt Data
5. Migration Challenges
Access Issues: Approach to a business ' core infrastructure and domain is a decisive success component. Domain access (domain verification with clouds) is vital to begin the Exchange Online deployment. Those companies with no access to their domains will be at risk and face deployment delays.
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Messaging Security: Spam filtering is one of the greatest challenges during the Office 365 implementation. With on-premises Exchange, there are many choices of vendors to provide layers of security and hygiene for your messaging - some based at the gateway and some on the client. But when moving to Office 365, the options diminish significantly. Though Office 365 utilize Exchange Online Protection, it fails to address the more advanced attack that are realized at the connection level as well as the email content level.
Data Loss: Data loss is often a major concern for Office 365 customers, because Microsoft 's backup policies cannot guarantee a complete and speedy restore of lost data. Even when data is retrievable, the process is long and complicated, and retention policies vary for each application included in the cloud platform. A new data retention policy introduced in Outlook can be a relief to office customers to some extent. But the retention policies can simply protect you from data loss in a limited way and are not thought to be a perfect backup