Moving to Microsoft 365 delivers significant productivity and capability benefits to workforces, and provides them with technology which can truly transform and modernise their ways of working. 

However when migrating to Microsoft 365 one of the key challenges organisations face is their existing unstructured data. Unstructured data’ is typically data held in network file shares, personal / home drives and other legacy applications, and in our experience we typically see very old content, huge amounts of nested folders and lack of clear ownership within the organisation.

During this session we will explain in more detail what unstructured data is and why you need to care about it, including legislation such as GDPR. We will then take you through what the different options are available to help manage and extract value from unstructured data, and the benefits and advantages of migrating your content into SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business. This will include real life scenarios and use-cases we have encountered where we have had to analyse and understand huge volumes of customer fileshare data ahead of migrating into Microsoft 365.

We will give a technical demo of how to use functionality available within Microsoft 365 to help ingest, understand, classify and govern unstructured data. As part of this technical session we will use SharePoint Online, Microsoft Security and Compliance, Office 365 Unified Labelling, Azure Information Protection and Azure Information Protection Scanner.