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NaveenKumar S
Copper Contributor
Jun 13, 2018

Collaboration between tenants

Hi All,   I would like to know some Microsoft recommendations on below scenario.   Company A has bought Company B. Company A is completely in Office 365 wherein Company B is 90% in Office 365 and...
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Matthew Kaye's avatar
Matthew Kaye
Copper Contributor
Jun 19, 2018

Hi Mitch could you advise what 3rd party software you find works best.  I have several clients I need to do this for and haven’t been. Able to get a good solution from Microsoft.

regards Matthew 

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Mitch King
Iron Contributor
Jun 19, 2018

BinaryTree do one (power365), BitTitan, SkyKick.

 

they all work in the same way using the same API's, the data migration is easy, the complexity is in the identities. If you want the identities to remain linked to on-prem AD then this is a challenge. Only BinaryTree and SkyKick do a user mapping from T2T.... BUT the user would become a "cloud" user in the destination and no longer linked with an on-premises identity. 

 

My preference is to (in a merger) do a continuous synchronisation of the users, groups, contacts from source domain to target domain/AD (on-prem) using something like Binary Tree or Quest. These are then synchronised to the destination Azure AD. 

 

It is not a simple task and is becoming more difficult/impossible with Teams as this stitches groups, data & identities from all over Office 365 so trying to reconstruct Teams in a different tenant is going to be a big headache.

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    Matthew Kaye
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 19, 2018

    Hi Mitch

     

    thank you for the advice

     

    Regards  Matthew