SHINE
IT Support and Cloud Migration

Region:
United Kingdom
Industry:
Charity
Benefits:
- A completely cloud-based infrastructure to replace their in-house infrastructure
- Emails in a cloud environment with a 99.99999% uptime and available from any internet connected PC
- All files accessible and shareable via Sharepoint
Greencorn is a Shift F7 Group company
Business Challenges
SHINE helps disadvantaged children and teenagers to recognise and then realise their academic potential. They fund and develop educational projects that provide the extra teaching and encouragement children need to develop the confidence and skills essential for success at school, and beyond.
In 2013, SHINE realised that their legacy systems did not match the way they wanted to work. They were using an in-house server to run all their applications locally, and all data was also stored locally.
The Solution
SHINE made the decision not only to replace their outdated infrastructure, but to make a move to a cloud-based infrastructure to support a new, more efficient way of working. They turned to Greencorn as the IT support partner that would help them make the change and to ensure the new infrastructure supported all internal processes and mobile devices.
The project for Greencorn involved:
- Replacing the in-house server with an on-premise server to an Exchange server running Office 365
- For each user, configure mail migration to map and migrate all mail to Office365
- Configure SharePoint Migration Tool to populate new SharePoint Team Site with all existing data and with existing file structure
- Visit each workstation and install Office2013 and configure Outlook for that user
- Copy all personal data to One Drive
- Install one local printer, Anti-Virus software, Greencorn monitoring and web filtering services
- Setup a mapped drive to the Team SharePoint site
- Provide Shine Trust with a custom document containing active-sync details for all smartphone / tablet users