If the words "Email Migration" strike fear into your heart, you're not alone. Many of our customers find email migrations to be, at best, nerve-wracking, at worst, daunting enough to avoid for years before coming to us. We get it. Your emails, files, calendars and contacts are the lifeline of your business. You can't lose them, nor can you afford for your systems to be down for days on end while you migrate. The only problem is, you also don't want to stay on your current platform. What's a guy or gal to do?

At BEMO, migrations are our expertise. Every day, we perform assessments and migrations and we take great pleasure in helping our customers transition from an ill-fitting solution to one that fits like a finely tailored suit. While migrations are no small feat, we want to empower our customers and DIYers alike to do just that: Do It Yourself (if you want). If you have a little know-how and a helping hand (this guide, straight from the BEMO Implementation Team vault), migrations of all levels are possible. So, let us show you how to migrate your Gmail, G Suite or IMAP contacts and calendars to Office 365.

If you've ever done it, you know that migrating from one offering to another is never an easy feat. Beyond the "should I really press 'OK'?!" at every step to the sheer time suck it can be, migrations are not for the faint of heart. Yet faint of heart you are not, because you've found yourself here. In this article, we will describe the step-by-step process you will follow when migrating from G Suite to Office 365. Have a snack, maybe do some jumping jacks and dive on in! 

A successful Zero Trust strategy requires seamless and flexible access to applications, systems, and data while maintaining security for both users and the resources they need to do their jobs. It requires being cloud-ready, starting with identity, and then taking steps that will help secure all areas of your environment. Here's what you need to implement for Azure AD Identity Protection:

With 81 percent of data breaches being due to weak, reused, or stolen passwords, turning on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all of your apps is necessary. In this article, we'll show you how to setup MFA for your Office 365 account paired with the Microsoft Authenticator smartphone app.

While setting up MFA is an essential step, it is only one portion of a five step comprehensive email security strategy. This blog is the 5th post of a 5 post series titled Your Complete Guide to Microsoft Email Security. The 5 steps to email security are:

1. Configure DKIM, DMARC, SPF
2. Deploy EOP (Exchange Online Protection)
3. Set up Office Message Encryption
4. Enable Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)
5. Enable Office 365 MFA with Authenticator App (this post)

For the last six months at BEMO we have been migrating a lot of Domain Controllers to Azure. During our discovery calls with the customers, it's obvious there's a lot of confusion about all the different options around Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory (AAD), Hybrid Azure Active Directory (Hybrid AAD), and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS). Below we'll explain their differences in order to help you decide what you need.

In this blog post, we're going to walk you through configuring SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. While this is an essential step, it is only one portion of a comprehensive email security strategy. This blog is the 1st post of a 5 post series titled Your Complete Guide to Microsoft Email Security. The 5 steps to email security are:

1. Configure DKIM, DMARC, SPF (this post)
2. Deploy EOP (Exchange Online Protection)
3. Set up Office Message Encryption
4. Enable Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)
5. Enable Office 365 MFA with Authenticator App

MxToolbox is an indispensable (free!) tool every IT and security team should have. We use it as part of our arsenal of tools for protecting our clients’ emails, ensuring we have enabled Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC). Don’t know what this gibberish means? No worries, we’ll explain what they mean, why they’re important, and how to enable them. Let’s get started!