When Microsoft released BPOS as its first hosted offering back in early 2008, people didn't realize at the time was that this was the start of the Cloud Computing revolution.

Over the next 15 years, multiple customers would bin their on-premises Exchange Servers and move to what became Office 365 and now Microsoft 365 to avail of secure hosted Exchange email and collaboration tools such as SharePoint and Teams. But that's where some companies stopped their cloud migrations.

In this session, I'll run through

- How it all started for Office 365 and Azure.
- How a typical company's tech stack is structured.
- How companies began their cloud migration journey with Email migrations.
- Why they stopped their cloud migration journey with Email migrations!
- The different license plans available in Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
- How these license plans can align to Azure services and opportunities for migration.
- The importance of Landing Zones and Cloud Adoption Framework.
- How Azure Virtual Desktop can help migrations for both Remote Users and from a Security standpoint.
- Azure Migration Tools and how they work.
- Why we need to stop using 25 year old technology and make the jump to cloud!

By the end of this session, you'll have a clear understanding of how Microsoft 365 license plans can help drive your migration strategy, and why you need to take advantage of it!