What is included in Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plans?
Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Office apps, Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune device management, Entra ID P1, and Defender for Business. M365 E3 adds advanced compliance and eDiscovery. M365 E5 adds Microsoft Copilot eligibility, Defender for Endpoint P2, Sentinel integration, advanced analytics via Purview and Power BI Pro. Cambay conducts a licencing assessment to identify the right plan for each user role — avoiding both under-licensing and overpaying.
How long does migrating to Microsoft 365 take?
A mailbox migration for 500 users typically takes 4–6 weeks. Larger migrations (2,000–10,000+ users) run 8–16 weeks depending on source platform complexity. Teams governance, SharePoint intranet and Intune rollout are typically layered on top in weeks 4–12. Cambay uses a phased approach — core services first, advanced features progressively.
What is Microsoft Copilot for M365 and is it worth the licence cost?
Microsoft Copilot for M365 is an AI assistant embedded in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint — using your organisational data to draft, summarise and analyse in context. Early enterprise adopters report 30–50% time savings on knowledge work tasks. Cambay runs structured Copilot Readiness Assessments and phased pilots to validate ROI before recommending organisation-wide deployment.
Can we keep some mailboxes on-premises in a hybrid configuration?
Yes. Microsoft supports Exchange Hybrid — maintaining on-premises Exchange for specific mailboxes while migrating others to Exchange Online. This is common during multi-phase migrations or for regulatory reasons requiring on-premises data residency. Cambay designs hybrid architectures and manages the full hybrid configuration and coexistence period.
How do you ensure our data is protected in Microsoft 365?
M365 data protection is multi-layered: encryption at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS), Conditional Access policies restricting access from unmanaged or non-compliant devices, Purview DLP preventing sensitive data from being shared externally, retention policies ensuring data is kept or deleted per your policy, and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protecting against email-borne threats.
What is Microsoft 365 governance and why does it matter?
Without governance, M365 environments accumulate thousands of ungoverned Teams, sites, groups and guest users — becoming unmanageable and creating security risks. Cambay implements Teams creation policies, naming conventions, guest access controls, lifecycle management (group expiry), SharePoint site governance, and sensitivity labels — creating a sustainable, secure M365 environment that scales with your organisation.
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