Move users and active work to the new platform while keeping legally significant messages, files, and journal data governed and accessible outside production. The new environment receives what ongoing operations require, not the entire historical population.
The simplest plan is to move all of it, and that plan is usually wrong.
Historical content carried into the target platform brings the governance problems of the old environment into the new one, where retention rules designed for current work then apply to content that needs different treatment entirely.
In practice, migrated history often lands in a folder named after the migration, or for journal populations, a set of search folders with no owner. Nothing governs it from there.
The data remains in the organization's possession, custody, and control, so every obligation and risk that applies to the production platform applies to the history it holds.
When historical journal data is imported into Microsoft 365, it may remain structured as journal reports and organized through search folders. The data is present, but it can be difficult to search, govern, and use.
Expireon™ provides an independent environment for preserving and governing journal data, separate from user mailboxes and the target collaboration platform.
A message pulled out of its thread, separated from the participants who were in the channel, and detached from the file it referred to can be read to mean something other than what it meant at the time.
See how Cloudficient can keep legally significant collaboration history governed and accessible while your users and active content move to the new platform, and how journal populations can be preserved without entering production.
